4th Friday 6Pack: Kristina Baker (’16)

Welcome to the latest installment of MFA|EDA’s 4th Friday Alumni 6Pack. This month your Arts & Letters tour guide is Kristina Baker from the Class of 2016. Take it away, Kristina: 1. After graduating, I moved to Charlotte N.C. 2. I go to the symphony whenever there are piano performances and have been collecting VHS tapes of old… Continue reading 4th Friday 6Pack: Kristina Baker (’16)

MFA|EDA 2016 Commencement Weekend, May 14+15

DUKE UNIVERSITY MFA|EDA CLASS OF 2016 COMMENCEMENT WEEKEND ____________________________ Saturday, May 14 OPEN STUDIO: 12:00-2:00pm, MFA|EDA Carpentry Shop, 1509 Campus Drive ____________________________ Sunday, May 15 COMMENCEMENT EVENTS: 9:00am, University-wide Commencement Ceremony, Wallace Wade Stadium MFA|EDA Degree Marshal: TAMIKA GALANIS 3:00pm, MFA|EDA Commencement and Diploma Distribution, Nasher Museum Auditorium MFA|EDA Commencement Speaker: NATASHA TRETHEWEY Natasha Trethewey, Pulitzer… Continue reading MFA|EDA 2016 Commencement Weekend, May 14+15

Sad City Coyote by MFA|EDA Kristina Baker Now On View

Be sure to see Sad City Coyote, now on view on the first floor of the Duke University Allen Building. Artist and Duke MFA|EDA graduate student Kristina Baker describes the exhibition: “Pairing traditional medium format film with modern cell phone photography, these images explore the nondescript remnants of communism within Eastern Europe, still struggling to… Continue reading Sad City Coyote by MFA|EDA Kristina Baker Now On View

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

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

Introducing the MFA|EDA Class of 2016

Duke University’s Master of Fine Arts in Experimental and Documentary Arts program is pleased to announce  the incoming MFA|EDA Class of 2016. _____________________________________________________________________________ Kristina S. Baker was born and raised in Stockton, California.  She studied language and art at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, completing her BFA at Sonoma State University where she interned as… Continue reading Introducing the MFA|EDA Class of 2016