Where We Live: A North Carolina Portrait, On View March 5-June 26

Via the Duke University Archive of Documentary Arts (ADA) Where We Live: A North Carolina Portrait Photographs by Alex Harris, Amanda Berg, Rachel Boillot, & Jennifer Stratton March 5 – June 26, 2016, Rubenstein Photography Gallery Reception & Artist Talk: April 28, 2016, 4:00-7:00pm, Rubenstein Photography Gallery This exhibit will be comprised of a documentary… Continue reading Where We Live: A North Carolina Portrait, On View March 5-June 26

MFA|EDA: The February Film Festival Four

We are very pleased to add continued congratulations to the following MFA|EDAs, all with film festival screenings this month. Congratulations! ________________________ Laura Doggett (’13) —  Another Kind of Girl and Children at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival (and at SXSW next month). Anna Kipervaser (’15) — Cairo In One Breath at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. Ava Lowrey… Continue reading MFA|EDA: The February Film Festival Four

Rick Prelinger Brings Los Angeles to MFA|EDA, Feb 17

“Landscape is history made visible.” — John Brinckerhoff Jackson Duke University MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts is pleased and proud to welcome visiting artist Rick Prelinger to Duke and Durham. The visit will include student critique sessions, course visits and a unique interactive presentation entitled LOST LANDSCAPES OF LOS ANGELES. The first time being presented… Continue reading Rick Prelinger Brings Los Angeles to MFA|EDA, Feb 17

MFA|EDA Class of 2017 Launches Influences Blog

In the first semester of the MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts program at Duke, the Documentary Fieldwork seminar is taught as an opportunity for students to create a new body of documentary work, in a sense to define what they mean by documentary work through their own artistic practice. This new work—presented at the end… Continue reading MFA|EDA Class of 2017 Launches Influences Blog

Sad City Coyote by MFA|EDA Kristina Baker Now On View

Be sure to see Sad City Coyote, now on view on the first floor of the Duke University Allen Building. Artist and Duke MFA|EDA graduate student Kristina Baker describes the exhibition: “Pairing traditional medium format film with modern cell phone photography, these images explore the nondescript remnants of communism within Eastern Europe, still struggling to… Continue reading Sad City Coyote by MFA|EDA Kristina Baker Now On View

MFA|EDA Student & Alumni News: Winter 2016 Playlist

The latest Duke University MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts dispatches from near and far. Congratulations to all, and mark your calendars for the 2016 MFA|EDA Thesis Exhibition, March 25-April 24. ___________________________ Kristin Bedford, ’14 Photography, Racial Equality & the Divine, All Saints Pasadena;  Be Still, Brehm Center Gallery; ___________________________ Amanda Berg, ’14 Where We Live: A… Continue reading MFA|EDA Student & Alumni News: Winter 2016 Playlist

Visiting Artist Richard Ashrowan: Jan 27 Screening + Q&A

Via Rubenstein Library Archive of Documentary Arts News & Events 2016 Rubenstein Visiting Artist: Richard Ashrowan Public Screening + Q&A January 27, 2016, 7:00-8:30 pm Full Frame Theater Directions Free and open to the public In January 2016, the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library will welcome Richard Ashrowan for a month-long residency.… Continue reading Visiting Artist Richard Ashrowan: Jan 27 Screening + Q&A

Power Plant Gallery Summer Residency – Call for Submissions

Check out this great series of opportunities from our friends at the Power Plant Gallery: Power Plant Gallery Summer Artist Residency Deadline for applying: February 15, 2016 Notifications to accepted artists: March 15, 2016 Information:  http://powerplantgallery.org/ppgartists The Power Plant Gallery is pleased to offer three separate, one-month public studio residencies: June, July and August, 2016… Continue reading Power Plant Gallery Summer Residency – Call for Submissions

MFA|EDA at 2016 Sundance + Slamdance Film Festivals

Congratulations to Laura Doggett (MFA|EDA ’13) and Michaela O’Brien (MFA|EDA ’16), who have each received recent and exciting film festival news: Another Kind of Girl, directed by Khaldiya Jibawi and produced by Laura Doggett will be screening at the Sundance Film Festival, January 21-31, 2016.  See Sundance’s Short Films press release here. This is the… Continue reading MFA|EDA at 2016 Sundance + Slamdance Film Festivals

MFA|EDA ’16 Cunningham + O’Brien at SEFF Binghamton

Congratulations to MFA|EDA Class of 2016’s Alex Cunningham and Michaela O’Brien, each with films in Binghamton’s Student Experimental Film Festival (SEFF), December 4-5, 2015. Alex Cunningham has three films at SEFF: Theia, Twenty-Five, and Gaumukh. Michaela O’Brien’s film, Anatomical Gifts premieres at SEFF. Congratulations all.