MFA|EDA Family and Friends at Haverhill Experimental Film Festival

Congratulations to the MFA|EDA family and friends representing (in a big way) at the Haverhill Experimental Film Festival (HEFF), July 22-24, Haverhill, Mass. Screening at HEFF are: Lisa McCarty (’13), Anna Kipervaser (’15), Alex Cunningham (’16), Jason Sudak (’17), Josh Gibson, and David Gatten, including a 16mm workshop with upcoming MFA|EDA  visiting artist Steve Cossman of MONO NO AWARE. Info… Continue reading MFA|EDA Family and Friends at Haverhill Experimental Film Festival

Visiting Artist Richard Ashrowan: Jan 27 Screening + Q&A

Via Rubenstein Library Archive of Documentary Arts News & Events 2016 Rubenstein Visiting Artist: Richard Ashrowan Public Screening + Q&A January 27, 2016, 7:00-8:30 pm Full Frame Theater Directions Free and open to the public In January 2016, the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library will welcome Richard Ashrowan for a month-long residency.… Continue reading Visiting Artist Richard Ashrowan: Jan 27 Screening + Q&A

MFA|EDA Visiting Artist Peter Hutton: Nov 16-18

Duke MFA|EDA is proud to announce an upcoming event featuring visiting artist Peter Hutton. As part of the influential filmmaker’s MFA|EDA visit, you are invited to join us for a rare program of personal prints and digital excerpts, followed by Q&A. Filmmaker/Friend/Family David Gatten will moderate the evening’s program. __________________________________ Peter Hutton: Analog and Digital Works Tuesday, November 17… Continue reading MFA|EDA Visiting Artist Peter Hutton: Nov 16-18

MFA|EDA Visiting Artist Bill Burke: Artist Talk, Nov 11

Please mark your calendar and join us next week for Bill Burke’s Artist Talk: A Life at the End of the Gasoline Age Duke MFA|EDA proudly hosts photographer Bill Burke for a visit to Duke and Durham, Nov 10-13, 2015. Bill Burke will participate in student critiques, course visits and an artist talk at the Full Frame Theater.  Please join us for the not-to-be-missed… Continue reading MFA|EDA Visiting Artist Bill Burke: Artist Talk, Nov 11

Focus Awards: MFA|EDA Visiting Artists Dow and Leclair

MFA|EDA is proud to learn and share that Visiting Artists Jim Dow (’12, ’13, ’15) and Larissa Leclair (’14) will receive honors at the Griffin Museum of Photography‘s 9th Annual Focus Awards, Oct 24 and 25, 2014. Read the press release here. Jim Dow is receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award, presented by Eric Almquist. Larissa… Continue reading Focus Awards: MFA|EDA Visiting Artists Dow and Leclair

EVERYBODY STREET with MFA|EDA Visiting Artist Cheryl Dunn

Duke University’s MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts is proud to welcome MFA|EDA Visiting Artist Cheryl Dunn to campus and to Durham, November 19-21. Among class visits, critique sessions with MFA|EDA students and other events, the acclaimed photographer will screen her street photography documentary, EVERYBODY STREET, Wednesday, November 20 at 7:00pm. The screening is free… Continue reading EVERYBODY STREET with MFA|EDA Visiting Artist Cheryl Dunn

Visiting Photojournalist David Degner and the Arab Spring

Via CDS Porch: Acclaimed Middle Eastern–based photojournalist David Degner will visit Duke University to talk about his work at two public events and to speak to undergraduates and students in the MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts program. The freelance photographer has been based in Egypt for the past three years, living a block from Cairo’s Tahrir Square; he… Continue reading Visiting Photojournalist David Degner and the Arab Spring

MFA|EDA Visiting Artist Jim Dow asks: Is Photography Over?

  Renowned photographer Jim Dow will bring an encyclopedic knowledge of photography and selections from his vast collection of archival slides to discuss the question, “Is Photography Over?,” a free public talk that’s part of his Visiting Artist residency at Duke University’s MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts program.   Monday, September 30, 5:00 p.m. Full Frame Theater,… Continue reading MFA|EDA Visiting Artist Jim Dow asks: Is Photography Over?