MFA|EDA Spring 2021 Guest Artists

MFA|EDA is very proud to share the slate of “visiting” artists for the Spring semester. The guest artists will present artist talks via Zoom, as well as engage with MFA|EDA students in one-on-one virtual critiques. Presentation details will be updated here as they become known. Without further ado: Rick PrelingerJanuary 26 @ 2:30pmDemystifying the Archive… Continue reading MFA|EDA Spring 2021 Guest Artists

4th Friday 6Pack: Aaron Canipe (’15)

November’s 4th Friday Alumni post is from ruminative friend Aaron Canipe, from the MFA|EDA class of 2015. Take it away, AC:   It could be the holiday season now upon us, the clear sun that falls through the treetops, or the lack of sleep from a rambunctious and curious baby, but this six-pack centers around… Continue reading 4th Friday 6Pack: Aaron Canipe (’15)

There’s Content: 5 Years of MFA|EDA Exhibition, Spring 2017

There’s Content: Five Years of the Masters of Fine Arts in Experimental & Documentary Arts celebrates the fifth anniversary of Duke University’s MFA program with a joint exhibition at the Power Plant Gallery and The Archive of Documentary Arts in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Power Plant Gallery (April 4-May 6)… Continue reading There’s Content: 5 Years of MFA|EDA Exhibition, Spring 2017

MFA|EDA Student & Alumni News: Fall 2015 Playlist

          The latest MFA|EDA dispatches and achievements from near and far. Congratulations all. ___________________________ Amanda Berg, ’14: Exhibited at PhotoVille in New York City. ___________________________ Rachel Boillot ’14: With work featured in Feature Shoot and the Daily Mail UK, Rachel is exhibiting her current work, Silent Ballad at The Framer’s Corner through… Continue reading MFA|EDA Student & Alumni News: Fall 2015 Playlist

MFA|EDA Student & Alumni News: Summer 2015 Playlist

The latest MFA|EDA dispatches and achievements from near and far. Congratulations all. ___________________________ Kristina Baker, ’16:  Currently on fieldwork travels in Prague, India and the U.K. ___________________________ Kristin Bedford, ’14:  Featured in KCRW arts and culture blog, Which Way LA, and hosted by the Los Angeles Visionary Association (LAVA) Salon series. ___________________________ Rachel Boillot, ’14:… Continue reading MFA|EDA Student & Alumni News: Summer 2015 Playlist

Phone Home Durham @ Power Plant Gallery, May 29-Aug 22

SUBMIT YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS OF DURHAM COUNTY PHONE HOME DURHAM MAY 29–AUGUST 22, 2015 Accepting photographs through August 22, 2015. Submit early for more chances to selected by our guest curators. Please see full details below Upcoming dates to note. Please check back often as events are added: May 26, 2015 – Notifications will go out… Continue reading Phone Home Durham @ Power Plant Gallery, May 29-Aug 22

Congratulations MFA|EDA Class of 2015

___________________________________________ Randall Kenan, raised in the rural North Carolina community of Chinquapin, is the author of A Visitation of Spirits, Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century, and The Fire This Time, among others.  He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, the… Continue reading Congratulations MFA|EDA Class of 2015

MFA|EDA 2015: Thesis Exhibition P.R. Round Up

This spring, Duke University’s MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts will celebrate the successes of the class of 2015 in MFA|EDA 2015, the program’s annual thesis exhibition on view from March 20-April 18. Featuring site-specific projects by fourteen MFA|EDA graduating students, the exhibition presents a tremendous range of work including presentations of film and video, installation,… Continue reading MFA|EDA 2015: Thesis Exhibition P.R. Round Up

MFA|EDA 2015 / Annual Thesis Exhibition / March 20-April 18

This spring, Duke University’s MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts will celebrate the successes of the class of 2015 in MFA|EDA 2015, the program’s annual thesis exhibition on view from March 20-April 18. Featuring site-specific projects by fourteen MFA|EDA graduating students, the exhibition presents a tremendous range of work including presentations of film and video, installation,… Continue reading MFA|EDA 2015 / Annual Thesis Exhibition / March 20-April 18

MFA|EDA Works-In-Progress Presentations Dec. 10 & 11

Duke’s first MFA program—in Experimental and Documentary Arts—invites the public to screenings of the documentary works-in-progress of the fifteen students from the class of 2015. The students are all enrolled in the first year Documentary Fieldwork seminar taught by Alex Harris. Five students will present their work on Tuesday, December 10, and nine students will… Continue reading MFA|EDA Works-In-Progress Presentations Dec. 10 & 11