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”
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 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 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
MFA|EDA Michaela O’Brien (’16) Film Project News
Confessions of the Boston Strangler, a two-hour documentary special, premiered on December 29th, 2014 as Investigation Discovery Films’ highest performing debut to date. The film follows the hunt for an elusive serial killer, accused of murdering 13 women in the Greater Boston Area during the 1960s. Class of 2016 MFA|EDA Michaela O’Brien was the Associate Producer, Production… Continue reading MFA|EDA Michaela O’Brien (’16) Film Project News
MFA|EDA Matthew Cicanese (’15) Photo News
Congratulations to MFA|EDA Class of 2015 Matthew Cicanese on a busy and noteworthy winter so far: ● Named a 2015 North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA) Summit Scholar ● Awarded First Place in the Judge’s Choice Awards: Duke Gardens Contest ● Awarded Top Three in 2015 Duke Forest Annual Photography Competition ● Awarded Second Place in… Continue reading MFA|EDA Matthew Cicanese (’15) Photo News
MFA|EDA Works-in-Progress Presentations, Dec 9+10
Duke University’s first MFA program—in Experimental and Documentary Arts—invites the public to screenings of the works-in-progress of the fifteen students from the class of 2016. The students are enrolled in the first-year Documentary Fieldwork seminar taught by Alex Harris. Six students will present their work on Tuesday, December 9, and nine students will present on… Continue reading MFA|EDA Works-in-Progress Presentations, Dec 9+10
