Renowned photographer Jim Dow will bring an encyclopedic knowledge of photography and selections from his vast collection of archival slides to discuss the question, “Is Photography Over?,” a free public talk that’s part of his Visiting Artist residency at Duke University’s MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts program. Monday, September 30, 5:00 p.m. Full Frame Theater,… Continue reading MFA|EDA Visiting Artist Jim Dow asks: Is Photography Over?
Category: Visiting Artists
Artist’s Talk: LaToya Ruby Frazier
“Exposing the underbelly of corporate practices – rapid de-industrialization and outsourcing, environmental negligence, and inner-city gentrification – Frazier’s work examines the crises of postindustrial communities and the class divisions wrought by capital” -The Whitney, on Frazier’s artistic terrain Photographer and media artist LaToya Ruby Frazier will give an artist’s talk on Tuesday, February 12 at… Continue reading Artist’s Talk: LaToya Ruby Frazier
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
John Sayles to Receive 2012 Duke LEAF Award April 21
Oscar-nominated filmmaker John Sayles, a pioneer of the independent film movement of the 1970s, will receive the 2012 Duke LEAF Award for Lifetime Environmental Achievement in the Fine Arts. An original “do-it-yourselfer,” Sayles wrote and directed the critically acclaimed “Return of the Secaucus Seven” (1979) on a shoestring budget of $40,000. He followed with 16… Continue reading John Sayles to Receive 2012 Duke LEAF Award April 21
Bruce Jackson & Diane Christian Discuss “In This Timeless Time” Time April 19 at CDS
On April 19 Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian will sign copies of their new book, In This Timeless Time: Living & Dying on Death Row in America, published by the University of North Carolina Press and CDS Books of the Center for Documentary Studies. The book includes a DVD of their film Death Row and “is about life on Death Row in… Continue reading Bruce Jackson & Diane Christian Discuss “In This Timeless Time” Time April 19 at CDS
Independent Filmmaker Yvonne Welbon Attends Work Reviews
Award-winning independent filmmaker Yvonne Welbon will be sitting in on MFAEDA work reviews Wednesday, April 4. Originally from Chicago, Webon received a B.A. in history from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. Thereafter, she spent six years in Taipei, Taiwan, where she taught English, learned Mandarin Chinese, and at the age of 23, founded and… Continue reading Independent Filmmaker Yvonne Welbon Attends Work Reviews
Hong-An Truong Attends MFAEDA Work Reviews
Hong-An Truong, artist, writer, and, Asst. Professor in the Art Department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, swung by the Carpentry Shop this afternoon to sit in on MFAEDA work reviews. Hong-An Truong has been an artist-in-resident at the Center for Photography at Woodstock and the Visual Studies Workshop. Her… Continue reading Hong-An Truong Attends MFAEDA Work Reviews
Jim Dow Lecture, Wednesday 3/21- Free and Open to the Public!
Photographer Jim Dow will return to the Duke campus this week as a Visiting Artist in Duke’s MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts. He will present a slideshow and lecture, “Walker Evans as a Post-Modern Construction,” in the course Innovation and Tradition in the Documentary Arts; the event is free and open to the public.… Continue reading Jim Dow Lecture, Wednesday 3/21- Free and Open to the Public!
Visiting Artist Ethan Jackson’s New Optical Installation Opens at the Divinity School
Visual artist Ethan Jackson’s new optical installation at the Divinity School’s Westbrook Hall Cloister Walk will be opening this week! This is a beautiful, large scale installation inside a long corridor adjacent to the Chapel. Please join us at two upcoming events to learn more and celebrate this work: Tech and New Media Speaker Series… Continue reading Visiting Artist Ethan Jackson’s New Optical Installation Opens at the Divinity School
Kianga Ford Visits Duke February 29 – March 1
As part of Immersed in Every Sense, a Duke University Visiting Artist Lecture Series, multimedia artist Kianga Ford will be on campus to give an artist talk and a lunchtime seminar. This event in the lecture series is cosponsored by Duke’s MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts program and the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies. Artist Talk Wednesday, February… Continue reading Kianga Ford Visits Duke February 29 – March 1
