In Practice: Work by Duke Arts Faculty – Power Plant Gallery On Exhibit Now Through Dec 13

Via CDS Porch: The Power Plant Gallery at American Tobacco Campus is pleased to present In Practice: Work by Duke Arts Faculty, opening October 4. The exhibit includes works in a wide range of media—photography, film and video, printmaking, new media—by seventeen Duke faculty members and instructors from three arts units at the university: the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), the Department… Continue reading In Practice: Work by Duke Arts Faculty – Power Plant Gallery On Exhibit Now Through Dec 13

MFA|EDA at the 51st New York Film Festival, Sept 27-Oct 13

Duke University’s MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts program is proud to announce MFA|EDA student, alumni, faculty and visiting artist participation at the 51st Annual New York Film Festival. MFA|EDA students and alumni presenting work are: Marika Borgeson, Erin Espelie, Lisa McCarty and Talena Sanders. In addition, Duke AMI’s Associate Director & Instructor Josh Gibson and Visiting Artist… Continue reading MFA|EDA at the 51st New York Film Festival, Sept 27-Oct 13

MFA|EDA Films in AMI Film Festival

MFA|EDA Class of 2014 students John Rash and Kristin Bedford are participating in the upcoming AMI STUDENT FILM FESTIVAL. Hope to see you there – don’t miss it. Tuesday, September 3, 7pm-8pm at Griffith Film Theater. John Rash:  CITY RIDE Kristin Bedford:  A SMALL SYMPHONY

KIE Names Caitlin M. Kelly First Kenan Graduate Arts Fellow

  Caitlin Margaret Kelly has been named the 2013-2014 Kenan Graduate Arts Fellow, a new endeavor offered to Duke students working toward a Master in Fine Arts in Experimental and Documentary Arts. Kelly is in her second year with the MFAEDA program, and past work has included a project combining photo portraiture and audio narratives of women… Continue reading KIE Names Caitlin M. Kelly First Kenan Graduate Arts Fellow

Film in the House of the Word: 3.23.13

Film in the House of the Word returns on Saturday, March 23, 8pm, at the Duke School Studios. The evening will feature work from poet Nathaniel Mackey and filmmaker Christopher Harris. Film in the House of the Word  screenings by Christopher Harris & readings by Nathaniel Mackey Saturday, March 23, 8pm @ 1517 Hull Street, Durham… Continue reading Film in the House of the Word: 3.23.13

Four MFAEDA Students Featured on Reframing Photography’s Website

Duke’s MFAEDA is now one of twenty-one programs represented on the online platform Reframing Photography: Theory & Practice. MFAEDA students Wolfgang Hastert, Lisa McCarty, Natalie Minik and Talena Sanders were selected to participate in an online exhibition that features  graduate students engaging the photographic medium in interesting ways. Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice is also a book.… Continue reading Four MFAEDA Students Featured on Reframing Photography’s Website

Annabel Manning’s Collaborative Installation at The Light Factory

MFAEDA student Annabel Manning recently helped organize an interactive video installation, “PopArt Visitors,” as part of the Connected There but Not Always Here: Social Networking and the Power of Image exhibition held at The Light Factory in Charlotte. For the installation, Manning collaborated with Berto Gonzalez, a PhD student in Human-Computer Interaction at UNC-Charlotte, and Celine… Continue reading Annabel Manning’s Collaborative Installation at The Light Factory

The Deep Blue Sea Exhibition: Winter Forum Artists-in-Residence

Before the start of the 2013 spring semester, three MFAEDA students–Kristin Bedford, Caitlin Kelly and Jennifer Stratton–spent two and a half days in Beaufort, NC as artists-in-residence at Duke’s 2013 Winter Forum. The forum is a non-credit experience that brings together undergraduates, graduate/professional students, alumni and faculty to explore a single global issue from a… Continue reading The Deep Blue Sea Exhibition: Winter Forum Artists-in-Residence

SYNTHESIA: Kristin Bedford bridges the gap between sight and sound

In December 2012, MFAEDA student Kristin Bedford collaborated with the Wet Ink Ensemble and the Duke University Department of Music to create “Synthesia,” a multimedia piece that aimed to combine photography with the experience of listening. For the project, Bedford photographed musicians from the Wet Ink Ensemble when they performed Ken Stewart’s score “Make It Opaque”… Continue reading SYNTHESIA: Kristin Bedford bridges the gap between sight and sound

Mendi + Keith Obadike at UNC Chapel Hill

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… Continue reading Mendi + Keith Obadike at UNC Chapel Hill