Event 4/25: Join CDS for a celebration and showcase of recent work by students. Everyone is welcome — students, faculty and staff as well as community members and visitors.

No registration needed, just show up and bring your friends! Find us at documentarystudies.duke.edu/directions

On Thursday Apr. 11 or Friday Apr. 12, join the Laboratory for Social Choreography and @dukearts for '11th Organ II,' a shared imaginary space for intellectuals, artists, and concerned citizens, dedicated to fundamentally re-envisioning our wounded world. dukearts.org/events/11th-or…

2024 MFAEDA Thesis Exhibition, 3.22-4.19. Info+sched at shorturl.at/nAJK2
Exhibiting Artists:
SHIRAZ AHMED
SARA ALGHESHEYAN
MARIE GAYESKI
NATASHA LEHNER
MAXWELL SCHULTE
TRISTA WENG
HARETH YOUSEF
TIANMING ZHOU (ALARIC)
NORA ZUBIZARRETA
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A Duke alumna is helping to flip the script on traditional methods for evaluating student work. Giving undergrads the option to create a video project instead of a final paper introduces them to new skills as directors, interviewers and producers: duke.is/r/arxn

Join us on Monday, March 4, at 4:00 for 'Weaving the Document: The Photography of Maruch Sántiz.'

CDS Ph.D. Fellow Sam Hunnicut will give an online talk about his work on Sántiz, an Indigenous Tsotsil Maya woman from the Mexican state of Chiapas.
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Today (Mon, Feb 12) join us for a reception and artist's talk for the exhibit 'More of Everything,' featuring works by our 2024 Graduate Arts Fellow Natasha Lehner. More info: kenan.ethics.duke.edu/event/exhibit-…

Save the dates: Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour at Duke and in Durham >> Thu Feb 22 see Program #1 w/Screen/Society at the Ruby >> Thu Feb 29 see Program #2 at Shadowbox. @aafilmfest duke mfa|eda #screensociety @shadowboxdurham Duke Arts

Congratulations to duke mfa|eda alumna Alina Taalman ('15) + faculty Shambhavi Kaul. Their films, Prearranged Signal and Slow Shift, respectively, were named to Film Comment's Best Short Films of 2023. shambhavi kaul #alinataalman @filmcommentmagazine @dukealumni @dukearts #bragdeck

Join us, Duke Arts, and Duke Dance Program on Dec. 5 for the extraordinary '11th Organ I,' an experimental symposium created by Michael Kliën. Speakers will weave in and out of the six-hour event, using free association to create a matrix of collective thought. duke.is/11thorg

Jonna McKone (’15) has been named to DOCNYC’s 40 Under 40 slate of emerging documentary makers. Congrats Jonna, and see you soon: Jonna visits duke mfa|eda next week, and will present a Hine Fellow Artist Talk Nov 15. shorturl.at/azCLN jonna mckone Center for Documentary Studies DOC NYC Duke Arts

Very happy to report that the inimitable Lisa Elmaleh is visiting MFA|EDA this week. Studio visits, tintypes, shoptalk, critiques, and vibes. Welcome back Lisa, and thanks for your time and expertise. #elmalayheehoo duke mfa|eda

In Durham or the greater Triangle and looking to escape the heat? Make a plan to check out NasherMuseum’s “Love & Anarchy” exhibit, which opened last month and includes work by Art, Art History & Visual Studies faculty members Beverly McIver and Tom Rankin. Admission is free.

There will be a special free screening of 'The Rough South of Larry Brown' at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 12 Proud Larry's. The program will include rarely seen photos & clips not in the original film. Sponsored by UM Southern Studies & University of Mississippi Libraries

Congratulations MFA|EDA Class of 2023
Laura Asherman
Yasaman Baghban
Matt Barbarino
Simone V. Barros
Marie-Louise Bennett
Vit Bitencourt
Madison Cavalchire
Sherly Fan
Gabriela Glueck
Madison Hill
Vann Powell
Maddie Stambler
Juan Velazquez
Charles Watson
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Last week, Shiraz Ahmed, a graduate student in duke mfa|eda, gave an overview of his exhibition 'The Beards of Muslim Men.'

This is the last week to see the exhibtion in Duke Chapel. Learn more about it: buff.ly/3TVJHVo

A short film worked on by DKU staff and students is going to Cannes Film Festival having won the best director award at Filmpalooza in the U.S. “Requiem for a Martyr” was originally shot for the Shanghai 48-Hour Film Festival

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.Duke University is known for innovation in the sciences, but did you know that it's also an innovator in the arts? The Laboratory for Social Choreography is working to define social choreography, an emerging art form, with two new publications. Read more: duke.is/cwx3y

Join the Laboratory for Social Choreography for 'Constitution' on April 17 and 18. This participatory work explores alternatives to dominant modes of moving and relating, making it possible to face the significant civilizational challenges of our times. duke.is/b6mnx

Two Forever Duke were also awarded Guggenheim Fellowships this year: Lucy Corin '92 (@Duke_English) and Jon-Sesrie Goff Goff '16 (@mfaeda). Learn more and read about the research foci of our four faculty Guggenheim fellows: duke.is/8wmkm

Pursuing an @MFAEDA at Duke, Ahmed created the exhibition - which runs through May 5 - based on his recent experience living in metro Detroit: 'I wanted to show that there really is no way of ‘looking like a Muslim man.’” Duke Arts Duke Graduate School DISC BlueDevilHumanities