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

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

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”

Ruth Behar and The Vulnerable Observer: After Twenty Years, What Next?

MacArthur Award winning writer and cultural anthropologist Ruth Behar will give a public talk The Vulnerable Observer: After Twenty Years, What Next? at the Center for Documentary Studies on April 8th at 7PM. Wednesday April 8, 7:00 p.m. Center for Documentary Studies 1317 West Pettigrew Street, Durham Free and open to the Public Reception and… Continue reading Ruth Behar and The Vulnerable Observer: After Twenty Years, What Next?

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

Jenny Scheinman: Duke Performances Artist-In-Residence Events

Via Duke Performances: Duke Performances has commissioned Jenny Scheinman, an acclaimed composer, singer, and violinist, to make an original live score set to 70-year-old archival footage taken by the late North Carolina filmmaker H. Lee Waters. Scheinman and her musical sidemen — Robbie Fulks and Robbie Gjersoe — will create a soundtrack of new folksongs, fiddle music, and field… Continue reading Jenny Scheinman: Duke Performances Artist-In-Residence Events

MFA|EDA Artist-in-Residence James Longley, Feb 11-20

Duke University MFA|EDA is pleased to share the schedule of events slated for the upcoming James Longley Residency, February 11-20, 2015 _______________________________ Award-winning documentary filmmaker James Longley will be visiting Duke University February 11-20, 2015 as an artist-in-residence with the Master of Fine Arts in Experimental and Documentary Arts program. His visit coincides with his first… Continue reading MFA|EDA Artist-in-Residence James Longley, Feb 11-20

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

Free Master Class With Award-Winning Filmmaker Sam Pollard at CDS, Saturday, 1/14

Distinguished filmmaker Sam Pollard will visit Durham over the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday weekend to lead a free master class at the Center for Documentary Studies, a rare opportunity for students and film fans to learn about the craft from a veteran filmmaker. Pollard will show pieces from the Katrina documentary When the Levees… Continue reading Free Master Class With Award-Winning Filmmaker Sam Pollard at CDS, Saturday, 1/14