As part of our ongoing "Art for Duke" series, we hand over our platform to students to share their work with our online community in place of in-person performances, exhibits, and other events. Duke senior Jacob Liang shares an aria sung by Friar Laurence in Gounod's "Romeo and Juliette."
In advance of his Duke Performances livestream concert this Wednesday, we asked guitarist and composer William Tyler to reflect on how the coronavirus crisis has impacted his work, and what he is finding reassuring.
Are you a student artist who has been working on a project this year? Do you enjoy hearing friends talk about their art? Join us online!
Viewers who tune in via Facebook and Instagram Live will be encouraged to give to the DAC fund or the NorthStar Church's of the Arts' Durham Artist Relief Fund
Brock Family Visiting Instructor in Studio Arts Stephen Hayes has two new public monument commissions: a marker for the Chapel Hill Nine in Chapel Hill, and a sculpture honoring the Fifth Regiment of the United States Colored Troops in Wilmington, NC—recently featured in The New York Times.
A sculpture made by Susan Hynes '19 inspired by an Entomology course travels from the Rubenstein Arts Center to Durham's Museum of Life + Science.
As DukeCreate explores remote arts tutorial opportunities with its instructors, we offer this look back at how the series has developed since its founding. "We started thinking about how we could bring more structure and more mentoring, but keep flexible access and non-judgmental engagement with the arts. And that is really the origins of DukeCreate," shared Vice Provost for the Arts Scott Lindroth.
The arts are best experienced in community with one another, and I know this pause on our regular arts programming will be a challenging experience—but your safety is Duke's top priority. Art is also a balm for the soul during uncertain times.
The upcoming Afro-Feminist Performance Routes symposium and the Collegium for African Diasporic Dance highlight the contributions of Black dance, allowing artists, dancers, students, faculty, and the wider Durham community to share in critical inquiry and inspiration.
Five questions for Tyler Edwards (Class of 2022), biology major and producer for Hoof 'n' Horn's The Wiz, the first production with an all-black cast and a sensory friendly performance.
Join Campus Center Art for a reception celebrating artist John Tempest on Friday, Jan 24, from 5:30-7:30pm in the Bryan Center. Tempest will be installing a large scale painting dedicated to his late father and a portrait.
Students and alumni reflect on their experiences at the 10th Annual Duke Entertainment, Media & Arts Network (DEMAN) Weekend on November 1–2, 2019.
Meet the students behind the scenes of Duke Arts—from tour guides to social media superstars—and each an important advocate in supporting our work in growing the arts across campus.
Patty Morton, elected to the Duke Board of Trustees in 2015, has become a powerhouse in cultivating the university’s rapidly expanding arts landscape.
The inaugural Duke STEAM Forum was designed to give visibility and voice to those who are passionate about STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Mathematics) at Duke.
DEMAN Weekend Keynote Speaker Robb Chavis, T'98, speaks toward the decisions he made to switch from life as a lawyer to working as a TV writer for the series "black-ish".
Celebrate a decade of DEMAN on November 1st and 2nd! View the schedule of events for DEMAN Weekend 2019 below.
Duke professor and violist Jonathan Bagg specializes in carefully curated experiences of new and exploratory chamber music. Join him and the Ciompi Quartet on July 9 for the premiere of a new multimedia work in Duke Gardens.
Jacob Tobia (T '14) is a writer, producer, and author of the forthcoming memoir, Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story. Read their interview with DukeJournos, the Duke alumni journalist network.
A glimpse inside the first year of the American Ballet Theatre’s (ABT) Studio Company residency at Duke University.
Professor Beverly McIver’s introductory painting class took on a special commission this spring for Durham's Cucciolo restaurant.
In this interview with singer-songwriter Julie Williams (Trinity ’19), we learn how this Florida-raised public policy student grew from singing national anthems at the ballpark to embarking on a music gap year in Nashville after graduation.
A Bass Connections team, "Music for Social Change," seeks to serve music education activists where they live. Duke sophomore Dayna Price channeled her experience playing flute into developing research tools for El Sistema USA—and fed her interest in clinical psychology in the process.
We look back at 10 years of the Me Too Monologues at Duke. "It is a communal experience and I think that’s the core of what it means,” says Anne Delmedico, this year's producer. "No matter what challenges you’re facing—whether you relate to the challenges on the stage or not—you are not alone."
“This show is such a beautiful showcase of a culture that is often misrepresented,” says Maria Zurita-Ontiveros, a Duke Sophomore and Director of Hoof ‘n’ Horn’s Spring 2019 production of In The Heights. Duke Arts sits down with Maria and lead cast member, Gustavo Andrade, to learn more about how this special show celebrates Latinx diversity and empowers individuals to proudly represent the communities they call home.
Cara Peterson is an aspiring author, freelance journalist and the curator of the monthly DukeJournos newsletter.
A new music department ensemble opens the vast world of Chinese music to the Duke community. “We mix both Western and Eastern music together,” explains Elizabeth Zhang (Class of 2022). Discover the story behind the music before their performance on Sun, Mar 31.
In graphic medicine, comics act as a creative space to explore what are often deeply felt and complicated dynamics between patients, providers, disease and health systems.
The emerging transdisciplinary field of social choreography brings embodied knowledge to bear on the creation of new social situations and structures. Exploratory meetings begin on February 14.
Lead actress Rebekah Wellons (Trinity '19) shares her experience staging Love Life, an extraordinary piece of musical theater history, under the direction of Tony Award-winning actress Victoria Clark in Duke’s Musical Theater Workshop class.
Two engineering students and the manager of the Duke Costume Shop share their unique collaboration to build a prosthetic device.
Eric Oberstein also received a Latin GRAMMY nomination for producing "Back to the Sunset" with the Dafnis Prieto Big Band earlier this Fall.
Created in the Ruby through an arts project residency, this new mural honoring farmworkers past, present, and future will be replicated and displayed outdoors at the Duke Campus Farm.
Sugarplum fairies return to Duke after a long absence, thanks to Devils en Pointe.
The Rubenstein Arts Center hosted two visiting artists in September and October as part of Visionary Aponte: Art & Black Freedom, an exhibition on view at the Power Plant Gallery through November 17, 2018.
Experience DEMAN Arts & Media Weekend 2018 through the eyes of our Creative Arts Student Team (CAST).
Pergament will be part of the keynote conversation during Duke’s DEMAN Weekend at 7pm in the Nasher Museum of Art on Friday, November 2.
Baltimore will be part of the keynote conversation during Duke’s DEMAN Weekend at 7pm in the Nasher Museum of Art on Friday, Nov 2.
Samuels will be part of the keynote conversation during Duke’s DEMAN Weekend at 7pm in the Nasher Museum of Art on Friday, November 2.
Schwab will be part of the keynote conversation during Duke’s DEMAN Weekend in the Nasher Museum of Art on Friday, November 2.
Bowman will be part of the keynote conversation during Duke’s DEMAN Weekend at 7 pm in the Nasher Museum of Art on Friday, November 2.
Students in a Theater Studies production class work with Torry Bend to adapt a beautiful but tainted masterpiece for the puppet stage.
A look back at the impact of contributions made to the arts across Duke during the Duke Forward campaign and beyond.
Deborah Rutter, president of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., was recently a special guest speaker for a new Duke Arts course: Introduction to Performing Arts Management and Entrepreneurship.
As part of a Duke Performances residency for the dance theater piece she created with Dance Heginbotham, the acclaimed illustrator exercised the storytelling skills of Duke's drawing students.
This multimedia exhibit by Danny Kim (MFA EDA '18) and Peter Lisignoli (MFA EDA '13) takes viewers to one of the world's most talked about—but least visited—areas.
Pop América exhibit will spotlight crucial Latin American contributions to Pop Art.
The faculty sculptor, photographer, and videographer reflects on three decades of teaching and collaborating at Duke
Rising senior Ibanca Anand updates a traditional dance form for an egalitarian age.
Duke student of environmental studies will join peripatetic artist Torkwase Dyson in community-based project.
Frederic Rzewski’s piece is performed by Imani Winds and the Fisk Jubilee Singers
The annual poetry salon highlights the full spectrum of Duke poets
Hacker, designer, and activist, Ashley Qian aims to make the tech world more inclusive with a children's book
A class graphic design project reconsiders orthodoxy and goes surprisingly viral.
The Nasher has had an unprecedented influence on the growth of the arts at Duke in the ten years since its establishment.
Some days he’s an artist who teaches and some days he’s a teacher who makes art, but either way, Professor Jeff Storer thinks it is a happy advantage that he can be both—for him and his students.
Joseph Conrad meets the Unabomber under the direction of Jody McAuliffe
Duke's first Esbenshade Professor of the Practice of Visual Art is also an experienced, exacting, enthusiastic teacher
At the Venice Biennale, sonic mosaics and flag fusions propose a pluralistic nationalism
When Aaron Greenwald came to Duke in 2007 to be interim director of Duke Performances, concerted efforts to raise the profile of the arts at Duke were in their early ...
Violinist-composer creates songs and fiddle tunes to accompany historic film of Piedmont life in the mid-20th century
Graduate composition students arrange tunes for Folds' upcoming tour with new music ensemble yMusic.
It was a confluence of interests that led Harry “Hap” Esbenshade III to endow a chair in the arts, but it started with a trip. He and his daughter were ...
Acclaimed poet Nathaniel Mackey's writing workshops are open to any undergraduate who's keen to put thought into verse.
Actor and Duke alum Lazar on the Duke theater class that changed his life
This past fall, Jon-Sesrie Goff moved from Philadelphia to Durham to enroll in Duke’s Master of Fine Arts In Experimental and Documentary Arts (MFAEDA) program. In the ten years since ...
In fall of 2014, The Archive, a long-celebrated undergraduate publication at Duke University, presented its third Salon in Von der Heyden Pavilion on Duke’s West campus. Salon is a celebration ...
The visiting artists combined the nerdy pleasures of interactive gaming with serious science.
Duke in Chicago is a new six-week, two-course summer program for entrepreneurs who love the arts and for artists who want to become entrepreneurial.
Dancing, studying, eating and looking – Duke students are finding many ways to connect with masterpieces by Spanish-born artist Joan Miró at the Nasher Museum. Hundreds of students have visited ...
2014 Sudler Prize winner Wenjia Xu's string quartet traces an arc from hydrogen to DNA.
Baldwin Auditorium reopened this past fall after a two-year, $15-million renovation funded by the Duke Endowment. In the year since, it has proved to be a beautiful place to hear ...
In this role-playing game, students learn about both art and markets
Duke Divinity School premiered St. Luke Passion by Scottish composer James MacMillan in Duke Chapel.
Students in a new Duke course learn entrepreneurship by documenting local entrepreneurs.
Kevin Poole. (T’98) (directed Phil Watson in his Senior Distinction project, “An Iliad.”) Studying and practicing theater at Duke enriched my college experience immensely. A thread within the fabric of ...
Phil Watson is a senior in Theater Studies at Duke who recently presented his senior distinction project, An Iliad, in Shaeffer Theater. It was directed by Kevin Poole, a 1998 ...
Samba and tap dance. Line dance and hip hop. Capoeira and twerking. These are all dance styles that have their origins in the African diaspora and were topics for the ...
Phil Watson, a Trinity senior majoring in theater studies and classical studies, spoke with the Chronicle about his distinction project this spring.
Duke Arabic students cover Sudanese hip-hop and strike a chord