In keeping with Duke University’s COVID-19 plan which includes instituting a series of social distancing practices to protect the health and continuity of the community, the public events, performances, and screenings for the MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts Spring Thesis Exhibition have been postponed to the Fall 2020 semester. Updated information and schedule details… Continue reading MFA|EDA Spring Thesis Exhibition – Postponed to Fall 2020
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Duke MFA|EDA Call for Applications: Deadline Feb 15
Duke University welcomes applications to its MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts (MFA|EDA), a groundbreaking interdisciplinary arts program. For Fall 2018 admission, applications will be accepted October 16, 2017 – February 15, 2018. —— Application and Information Here —— A unique initiative, the MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts couples experimental visual practice with the… Continue reading Duke MFA|EDA Call for Applications: Deadline Feb 15
MFA|EDA Director Tom Rankin in Southern Cultures
Days before the 143rd Kentucky Derby on Saturday, May 6, 2017, documentary photographer Tom Rankin shares memories of a lifetime attending the “greatest two minutes in sports: Read the article and see the photographs in Southern Cultures here
There’s Content: 5 Years of MFA|EDA Exhibition, Spring 2017
There’s Content: Five Years of the Masters of Fine Arts in Experimental & Documentary Arts celebrates the fifth anniversary of Duke University’s MFA program with a joint exhibition at the Power Plant Gallery and The Archive of Documentary Arts in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Power Plant Gallery (April 4-May 6)… Continue reading There’s Content: 5 Years of MFA|EDA Exhibition, Spring 2017
Duke MFA|EDA 2017 Thesis Exhibition: March 3-April 4
The Duke University Master of Fine Arts in Experimental and Documentary Arts program is proud to announce its spring thesis exhibition, MFA|EDA 2017. Featuring site-specific projects by twelve MFA|EDA graduating students, the exhibition presents a tremendous range of work including presentations of film and video, installation, sculpture, photography, print-making, interactive arts, performance, sound, and multimedia over the… Continue reading Duke MFA|EDA 2017 Thesis Exhibition: March 3-April 4
Salima Al-Ismaili (’17) Named Kenan Graduate Arts Fellow
2016-2017 Kenan Institute for Ethics Graduate Arts Fellow Salima Al-Ismaili (MFA|EDA ’17) is an Omani documentary artist working primarily in film and photography. Her previous documentaries explored issues of migration and displacement in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Jordan. Al-Ismaili’s current focus explores the constructed and blurred assigned gender roles of women within religion, and the role… Continue reading Salima Al-Ismaili (’17) Named Kenan Graduate Arts Fellow
Duke MFA|EDA Call For Applications: Deadline Feb 15
Duke University welcomes applications to its MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts (MFA|EDA), a groundbreaking interdisciplinary arts program. For Fall 2017 admission, applications will be accepted October 10, 2016 – February 15, 2017. —— Application and Information Here —— A unique initiative, the MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts couples experimental visual practice with the… Continue reading Duke MFA|EDA Call For Applications: Deadline Feb 15
MFA|EDA 2016: Annual Thesis Exhibition, March 25 – April 24
The Duke University Master of Fine Arts in Experimental and Documentary Arts program is proud to announce its spring thesis exhibition, MFA|EDA 2016. Featuring site-specific projects by sixteen MFA|EDA graduating students, the exhibition presents a tremendous range of work including presentations of film and video, installation, sculpture, photography, print-making, interactive arts, performance, sound, and multimedia, over… Continue reading MFA|EDA 2016: Annual Thesis Exhibition, March 25 – April 24
MFA|EDA Class of 2017 Launches Influences Blog
In the first semester of the MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts 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 end… Continue reading MFA|EDA Class of 2017 Launches Influences Blog
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