Welcome to the MFA|EDA’s inaugural 4th Friday Alumni 6Pack. We are pleased to kick off the new custom with Laurids Andersen Sonne, from the recently-graduated Class of 2018. Away we go: 1. Merlin bird ID Lately I have found myself on walk-abouts with friends out in nature with binoculars hanging around my neck and Merlin bird ID… Continue reading 4th Friday 6Pack: Laurids Andersen Sonne (’18)
Category: Ponderings
2018 Cassilhaus Travel Fellowship Call for MFA|EDA Alumni
2018 CASSILHAUS TRAVEL FELLOWSHIP CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else. R. Buckminster Fuller ~~~~ The Duke University Masters of Fine Arts in Experimental and Documentary Arts program (MFA|EDA) and the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) are pleased to announce the Call… Continue reading 2018 Cassilhaus Travel Fellowship Call for MFA|EDA Alumni
MFA|EDA Student & Alumni News: Summer 2017 Playlist
MFA|EDA dispatches from near and far, current and alumni. Congratulations all. ___________________________________________________ Tracy Fish (’15), featured in Oxford American’s Eyes on the South, and has joined the Photo faculty at the University of Nevada-Reno. John Rash (’14) works as producer/director at the Southern Documentary Project in the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of… Continue reading MFA|EDA Student & Alumni News: Summer 2017 Playlist
MFA|EDA Director Tom Rankin in Southern Cultures
Days before the 143rd Kentucky Derby on Saturday, May 6, 2017, documentary photographer Tom Rankin shares memories of a lifetime attending the “greatest two minutes in sports: Read the article and see the photographs in Southern Cultures here
MFA|EDA Student & Alumni News: Winter 2017 Playlist
MFA|EDA dispatches from near and far, current and alumni. Congratulations all. ___________________________________________________ Haoyang Zhao (‘17) in Duke Today. Katie King (’18) Cousins on view at the Installation ArraySmith Warehouse Bay 11. Colleen Pesci (’17) and Dear Companion at the Kenan Institute for Ethics, February 1 – March 3, 2017 Power Plant Gallery Call for residency applications. MFA|EDA Sunday Screening… Continue reading MFA|EDA Student & Alumni News: Winter 2017 Playlist
MFA|EDA Class of 2016 Doc Fieldwork Blog: “Influences”
Class of 2016 Influences In the first semester of the MFA|EDA 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… Continue reading MFA|EDA Class of 2016 Doc Fieldwork Blog: “Influences”
Film Comment’s Experimental Film in the Academy & MFA|EDA
Very pleased and proud to see MFA|EDA faculty and alumni featured in Living Cinema: Experimental Film and the Academy, from the November/December 2014 issue of Film Comment. Read the full article here.
MFA|EDA Amanda Berg (’14) Featured in ‘Slate’
Amanda Berg (2014) was recently featured in Slate along with images from her project Keg Stand Queens. Recently, Slate columnist Emily Yoffe wrote a story advising college women to drink less at social gatherings to lower the risk of sexual assault.* The story pushed a few buttons and ignited a dialogue about drinking culture all over the Internet. For three years, photographer Amanda Berg was steeped in… Continue reading MFA|EDA Amanda Berg (’14) Featured in ‘Slate’
In Retrospect: Rachel Boillot on her first semester
The first semester of the MFAEDA program was an unbelievable whirlwind, wonderful in its intensity. There are a lot of questions about the program, as we are truly breaking new ground. I rarely have good canned answers ready in response to such questions, and we are all still figuring it out. Regardless, here are some of my… Continue reading In Retrospect: Rachel Boillot on her first semester
Stills: Studies of the MFA Studio Space – Week 11
Week 11 of an ongoing series of photographs brought to you by Lisa McCarty (MFAEDA ’13) and her arsenal of Polaroid cameras. Jolene’s Desktop in Two Parts MFAEDA Carpentry Shop | April 2012 Impossible Instant Film
