DUKE UNIVERSITY
MFA|EDA CLASS OF 2017
COMMENCEMENT WEEKEND
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Friday, May 12
3:00-5:00pm
EXHIBITION RECEPTION
There’s Content: Five Years of the MFA|EDA
Rubenstein Photography Gallery
Duke West Campus
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Saturday, May 13
12:00-3:00pm
MFA|EDA OPEN STUDIO
Carpentry Shop
1509 Campus Drive
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Sunday, May 14
9:00am
DUKE COMMENCEMENT
University-Wide Commencement Ceremony
MFA|EDA Degree Marshal SALIMA AL-ISMAILI
Wallace Wade Stadium
3:00pm
MFA|EDA COMMENCEMENT
Ceremony & Diploma Distribution
Commencement Address by MARSHALL CURRY
Nasher Museum Auditorium
5:00pm
MFA|EDA GRADUATION RECEPTION
Spectre Arts
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THE CLASS OF 2017
Salima Al-Ismaili
Sarah Elizabeth Borst
Andrea De Francesco
Sylvia Herbold
Lauren Mueller
Colleen F. Pesci
Anthony Dean Shafer
Kate Stephens
Jason Sudak
Ran Xin
Haoyang Zhao
Yijie Zhu
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Marshall Curry is a two-time Academy Award nominated filmmaker, and director of Street Fight, Racing Dreams, If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front, Point and Shoot, and executive producer of Mistaken for Strangers. Curry has been selected by Filmmaker Magazine as one of 25 New Faces of Independent Film, and was awarded the International Documentary Association (IDA) Jacqueline Donnet Filmmaker Award and the International Trailblazer Award at MIPDOC in Cannes. Three of Curry’s films have been a part of the American Documentary Showcase, a program sponsored by the U.S. State Department to share the art and practice of documentary filmmaking with the international community. As part of the Showcase, he has traveled to Israel, Jordan, Kosovo, and Ukraine to lead classes and discussions about documentary filmmaking. He is a graduate of Swarthmore College where he studied Comparative Religion and was a Eugene Lang Scholar. He was also a Jane Addams Fellow at Indiana University’s Center on Philanthropy, where he wrote about the history, philosophy, and economics of non-profits. Curry is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and co-chair of Cinema Eye Honors.
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DUKE UNIVERSITY
MFA|EDA CLASS OF 2017
COMMENCEMENT WEEKEND
Friday, May 12 – Sunday, May 14
Questions? Contact us at mfaeda@duke.edu
