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Oscar-nominated filmmaker John Sayles, a pioneer of the independent film movement of the 1970s, will receive the 2012 Duke LEAF Award for Lifetime Environmental Achievement in the Fine Arts. An original “do-it-yourselfer,” Sayles wrote and directed the critically acclaimed “Return of the Secaucus Seven” (1979) on a shoestring budget of $40,000. He followed with 16 [...]

On April 19 Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian will sign copies of their new book, In This Timeless Time: Living & Dying on Death Row in America, published by the University of North Carolina Press and CDS Books of the Center for Documentary Studies. The book includes a DVD of their film Death Row and “is about life on Death Row in [...]

Award-winning independent filmmaker Yvonne Welbon will be sitting in on MFAEDA work reviews Wednesday, April 4. Originally from Chicago, Webon received a B.A. in history from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. Thereafter, she spent six years in Taipei, Taiwan, where she taught English, learned Mandarin Chinese, and at the age of 23, founded and [...]

    Hong-An Truong,  artist, writer, and, Asst. Professor in the Art Department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, swung by the Carpentry Shop this afternoon to sit in on MFAEDA work reviews.   Hong-An Truong has been an artist-in-resident at the Center for Photography at Woodstock and the Visual Studies Workshop. Her [...]

Photographer Jim Dow will return to the Duke campus this week as a Visiting Artist in Duke’s MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts. He will present a slideshow and lecture, “Walker Evans as a Post-Modern Construction,” in the course Innovation and Tradition in the Documentary Arts; the event is free and open to the public. [...]

Visual artist Ethan Jackson’s new optical installation at the Divinity School’s Westbrook Hall Cloister Walk will be opening this week! This is a beautiful, large scale installation inside a long corridor adjacent to the Chapel. Please join us at two upcoming events to learn more and celebrate this work: Tech and New Media Speaker Series [...]

As part of Immersed in Every Sense, a Duke University Visiting Artist Lecture Series, multimedia artist Kianga Ford will be on campus to give an artist talk and a lunchtime seminar. This event in the lecture series is cosponsored by Duke’s MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts program and the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies. Artist Talk Wednesday, February [...]

MFAEDAer Marika Borgeson (’13) sat down with augmented reality artist Tamiko Thiel during her visit to Duke to discuss Thiel’s integration of mechanical engineering and artistic practice, her beginnings in augmented reality, and some of her projects in progress.   M: Can you explain how you made or what caused the switch from mechanical engineering to [...]

Artists’ Talk / Tuesday, February 7, 6 p.m. / 121 Hanes Art Center, UNC Campus, 115 S. Columbia St., Chapel Hill, North Carolina Performance: Four Electric Ghosts / Thursday, February 9, 7:30 p.m. / Memorial Hall, UNC Campus, 114 E. Cameron Ave., Chapel Hill, North Carolina Duke’s MFA program in Experimental and Documentary Arts partnered [...]

Saturday, February 4, 2012 2:00-3:50pm at the Nasher Museum of Art Auditorium Maverick artists, 5 women and 1 man equal 6 titles, spring to the screen adding up to more than the sum of their parts with these exciting works shown for the first time together since the New York Film Festival 2011. “This end [...]