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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MFA|EDA 2019 Commencement: Sunday, May 12
MFA|EDA CLASS OF 2019 COMMENCEMENT ____________________________ Sunday, May 12 9:00am University-wide Commencement Ceremony Wallace Wade Stadium MFA|EDA Degree Marshal Sarah Riazati 3:00pm MFA|EDA Commencement and Diploma Distribution Nasher Museum Auditorium MFA|EDA Commencement Speaker Deborah Stratman 5:00pm MFA|EDA Reception & Open Studio The Shop | 1509 Campus Drive ____________________________ Deborah Stratman is an artist and filmmaker interested… Continue reading MFA|EDA 2019 Commencement: Sunday, May 12
Cassilhaus Travel Fellowship Presentation: Alina Taalman, May 4
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. Martin Buber _________________________________ Please join us for the inaugural Cassilhaus Travel Fellowship presentation, featuring the work-in-progress of 2016 Cassilhaus Travel Fellow Alina Taalman, May 4, 6:00pm at the Full Frame Theater in downtown Durham. The work, entitled Kolmas Punkt, (The Third Point), Taalman says,… Continue reading Cassilhaus Travel Fellowship Presentation: Alina Taalman, May 4
Duke MFA|EDA Class of 2018 Commencement, May 13
Duke University Master of Fine Arts in Experimental & Documentary Arts 2018 Commencement Sunday, May 13 MFA|EDA Commencement Speaker GEOFF DYER __________________________________ 9:00am University-wide Commencement Ceremony Wallace Wade Stadium ~ 3:00pm MFA|EDA Commencement Ceremony Commencement Address by Geoff Dyer Nasher Museum Auditorium ~ 5:00pm MFA|EDA Graduation Reception Rubenstein Arts Center Lounge __________________________________ Duke University MFA |… Continue reading Duke MFA|EDA Class of 2018 Commencement, May 13
Tamika Galanis (’16) Library of Congress Lovelace Fellowship
A message from Tom Rankin, Director of the Master of Fine Arts in Experimental and Documentary Arts program at Duke University: We are proud and pleased to share the news that Tamika Galanis has been awarded a Jon B. Lovelace Fellowship at the John W. Kluge Center in the Library of Congress where she… Continue reading Tamika Galanis (’16) Library of Congress Lovelace Fellowship
MFA|EDA Director Tom Rankin & the American Folklore Society
Congratulations to Tom Rankin, documentary photographer, Duke University professor of the practice in Art, Art History and Visual Studies, Center for Documentary Studies educator, and director the the MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts at Duke University. At this year’s American Folklore Society annual meeting in Minneapolis, Tom Rankin was designated for induction as an American… Continue reading MFA|EDA Director Tom Rankin & the American Folklore Society
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
Introducing the Duke University MFA|EDA Class of 2019
Please join us in welcoming the incoming Class of 2019 cohort of Duke University’s MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts. David D’Agostino David D’Agostino is a filmmaker and former instructor for Pittsburgh Filmmakers School. He received an art degree from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2003, and completed the 5th… Continue reading Introducing the Duke University MFA|EDA Class of 2019
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