All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. Martin Buber _________________________________ Please join us for the inaugural Cassilhaus Travel Fellowship presentation, featuring the work-in-progress of 2016 Cassilhaus Travel Fellow Alina Taalman, May 4, 6:00pm at the Full Frame Theater in downtown Durham. The work, entitled Kolmas Punkt, (The Third Point), Taalman says,… Continue reading Cassilhaus Travel Fellowship Presentation: Alina Taalman, May 4
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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 Alina Taalman Named Inaugural Cassilhaus Travel Fellow
The Cassilhaus Travel Fellowship, made possible through a partnership between Cassilhaus, the Master of Fine Arts in Experimental and Documentary Arts (MFA|EDA), and the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University (CDS), was created with the idea that travel can be transformative in the life of an emerging artist. The biennial $10,000 fellowship, funded by… Continue reading MFA|EDA Alina Taalman Named Inaugural Cassilhaus Travel Fellow
MFA|EDA Alumni Directors and Producers in Spring Film Fests
We are very pleased to add continued congratulations to the following filmmakers and MFA|EDA alumni, all with film festival screenings this spring. Congratulations! ________________________ Anna Kipervaser (’15) — director: Cairo In One Breath at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival; Instrument at Crossroads Film Festival; A Meeting, In Light at Indie Grits Laura Doggett (’13) — producer: The… Continue reading MFA|EDA Alumni Directors and Producers in Spring Film Fests
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
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
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 at 2015 Click! Triangle Photography Festival
MFA|EDA is proud to participate again in the Click! Triangle Photography Festival, a month-long celebration of the medium and the makers in North Carolina’s Triangle region. Find us at the events below, and be sure to check out all Click! events here: WED SEPT 30 Reception + Artist’s Talk Question Bridge: Black Males Visiting Artist Bayeté Ross-Smith 6:00-8:00pm… Continue reading MFA|EDA at 2015 Click! Triangle Photography Festival
MFA|EDA Photo & Video Panelists at NC Museum of History
Hidden Stories of Abandoned Places Friday, September 4, 6:30-8:00 pm at the NC Museum of History What can photos, archival documents, personal recollections, and video reveal about the people who once inhabited a place and the circumstances that caused them to leave it behind? What affects the decisions a photographer or filmmaker makes about how… Continue reading MFA|EDA Photo & Video Panelists at NC Museum of History
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
