The MFAEDA will welcome filmmakers Pam Minty and Alain LeTourneau on Monday, November 5th for a screening of their newest project, Empty Quarter. Empty Quarter Monday, November 5, 6:30 p.m. MFA Carpentry Shop 1509 Campus Dr., Durham, North Carolina Free and open to the public! Empty Quarter is a documentary about southeast Oregon, an area populated… Continue reading Free Screening of Alain LeTourneau and Pam Minty’s “Empty Quarter,” 11.5
Month: October 2012
MFAEDAs Featured in Duke Arts Festival: New Views, through 11.4
Ten MFAEDA students will present work as part of the University’s annual Duke Arts Festival in New Views, in the Brown Gallery at the Bryan Center. The Duke Arts Festival will take place from Monday, October 29 through Sunday, November 4th. A closing reception will take place on Saturday, November 3rd from 11.45am to 1.30pm. … Continue reading MFAEDAs Featured in Duke Arts Festival: New Views, through 11.4
MFAEDA Student Joel Wanek Screens Film at Antimater Fest
MFAEDA student Joel Wanek (’13) recently screened his film, “Heart of Durham” at the 15th Antimatter Film Festival in Victoria, BC, an international media art and experimental cinema festival that features screenings, performances, and installations.. The festival also included work by Duke faculty member, Jim Haverkamp, who showed his work “When Walt Whitman Was A… Continue reading MFAEDA Student Joel Wanek Screens Film at Antimater Fest
MFAEDA Students Selected for NCMA Exhibition
Congrats are due to MFA candidates Marika Borgeson and Malina Chavez, whose work was recently selected for inclusion in A Life, Still at the North Carolina Museum of Art. The NCMA asked college students to submit works for a juried exhibition to coincide with Still-Life Masterpieces: A Visual Feast from the Museum of Fine Arts,… Continue reading MFAEDA Students Selected for NCMA Exhibition
Duke Students Present: Film in the House of the Word, 10.19.12
MFA candidate Joel Wanek and PhD Literature student Laura Jaramillo will present the second installment of their series, Film in the House of the Word this Friday. Film in the House of the Word with screenings by Sabine Gruffat and a reading by Fred Moten Friday, October 19th, 8pm @ 1515 Hull Avenue (Duke School… Continue reading Duke Students Present: Film in the House of the Word, 10.19.12
Introducing the MFAEDA Class of 2014
The MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts welcomed fifteen new students this Fall, bringing the program into full enrollment for the first time. “The infusion of energy that comes with this new class combined with the remarkable experience of our first class will elevate everyone’s artistic work, as well as the arts scene at Duke,”… Continue reading Introducing the MFAEDA Class of 2014
MFAEDA Student and Faculty Work at the NYFF’s Views from the Avant Garde
Exciting news from New York! Three MFA|EDA students are showing work this weekend in the venerable Views from the Avant Garde at the 50th Annual New York Film Festival: Marika Borgeson, Erin Espelie and Talena Sanders. In addition, both AMI’s Lecturing Fellow & Artist in Residence David Gatten and Visiting Artist & Adjunct Instructor Shambhavi… Continue reading MFAEDA Student and Faculty Work at the NYFF’s Views from the Avant Garde
Visiting Artist Laura Poitras Named MacArthur Fellow
MFAEDA Visiting Artist Laura Poitras has been awarded a MacArthur “Genius” Grant by the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Poitras is one of twenty-three fellows announced by the foundation today. MacArthur Fellows receive $500,000 in no-strings-attached support over the next five years, without stipulations or reporting requirements, offering recipients unprecedented freedom… Continue reading Visiting Artist Laura Poitras Named MacArthur Fellow
