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
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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”
MFA|EDA at Athens International Film+Video Festival
Four films from Duke University MFA|EDA faculty, alumni and students are featured in this year’s installment of the Athens International Film + Video Festival, April 3-9, 2015. Check it out: http://athensfilmfest.org/ Congratulations to the filmmakers: William Noland Bicycle Day Brenda L. Burmeister A Date With Your Family John Rash Yangtze Drift Anna Kipervaser Instrument
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 Alex Cunningham (’16) Film Festival News
Congratulations to Alex Cunningham (MFA|EDA ’16), whose film “Friday” screened recently at the Big Muddy Film Festival and will appear in the Solitaire section of the Speechless Film Festival later this month. Check it out: Big Muddy Film Festival Speechless Film Festival ###
MFA|EDA Tracy Fish (’15) Photo Exhibition News
Congratulations to Tracy Fish (MFA|EDA Class of 2015), whose recent portrait work has been selected to appear in three photography exhibitions: . Travel / A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas (Juror Alison Wright) Portraits / Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon. (Juror Amy Arbus) 5th Annual–Tapped / Manifest: A Non-Profit Creative Research Gallery & Drawing Center,… Continue reading MFA|EDA Tracy Fish (’15) Photo Exhibition News
MFA|EDA Aaron Kutnick (’15) Exhibit: Docu{rithm} Mar 2-13
via Kenan Institute for Ethics: 2014-2015 Kenan Graduate Arts Fellow Aaron Kutnick’s show will open with a reception at 5:30pm on Monday, March 2nd in the Keohane-Kenan Gallery. The exhibition, entitled “Docu {rithm}: Algorithmic Narration of Human Experience,” features a series of interactive camera-based installations created by Kutnick. Each piece explores ways algorithms shape what… Continue reading MFA|EDA Aaron Kutnick (’15) Exhibit: Docu{rithm} Mar 2-13
MFA|EDA Kristin Bedford (’14) Photo News
Two recent posts regarding Class of 2014 alumna Kristin Bedford and her work: New York Times – Lens: The photographer Kristin Bedford trekked through the sweltering summer streets of Philadelphia in 2013, looking for remnants of forgotten religions. In college, as a religious studies major, she’d been influenced by Arthur Fauset’s 1944 book “Black… Continue reading MFA|EDA Kristin Bedford (’14) Photo News
