New CDS Class for Photographers Interested in Stories of Social Significance, Taught by Misha Friedman
Photographer Misha Friedman—whose series Donbass Romanticism, documenting the health effects of coal mines and factories in the Ukraine, was recently featured on the New Yorker’s Photo Booth blog—will lead a new CDS continuing education class intended for photographers interested in working on stories of social significance. Participants in the class, Successful Collaboration with NGOs, will look into how the nonprofit [...]
Exhibition of MFA Student Work, “Occupations,” Opens on the Duke Campus, Friday, February 17
The first-ever public exhibition of Duke MFA work, Occupations, will open in the East Duke building on Duke University’s East Campus on Friday, February 17. In the wake of the dispersion of many of the Occupy sites around the country, seven students in the inaugural class of the MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts have [...]
Students in New Class Will Create Short Docs On Hayti, Durham’s Historic African American Community
CDS is pleased to offer Then and Now: A Hayti Civics Course, a unique new continuing education course led by a knowledgeable and committed group of instructors. Students will record oral histories and use archival material to produce a series of short documentaries about Durham’s Hayti community, a vibrant African-American section of Durham, North Carolina, that flourished for [...]
New MFA Student Blog—“Influences”—Launches
The fifteen students in the inaugural class of Duke’s first MFA program—in Experimental and Documentary Arts—have launched a blog, Influences, that was created as part of the Documentary Fieldwork seminar. Under the guidance of instructor Alex Harris, each student began creating a new body of documentary work, but in addition to moving forward with their own [...]
Interview with Lorenzo Martelli, Juror’s Pick, 2011 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Work-in-Process Prize
Interview with Lorenzo Martelli Juror’s Pick (Stacey Clarkson), Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Work-in-Process Prize “‘I am not my home,’ he kept telling me over and over, but one day he decided to let me in,’ explains Lorenzo Martelli regarding his endeavor to portray the private, melancholy world of Charlie, a disinherited Milanese count. Intimate and respectful, [...]
New Class Explores Documentaries for Social Change Focusing on Coal Appalachia
CDS is pleased to offer a new continuing education class taught by folklorist Joy Salyers and documentary photographer Roger May—Can Docs for Social Change Make a Difference? The effects of mining coal in Appalachia, especially in eastern Kentucky and western West Virginia, have been featured in documentaries for decades. The federal government’s War on Poverty [...]
Register Now for New Documentary Essay Class with Rosecrans Baldwin
CDS is pleased to offer this new continuing education class in our growing Documentary Writing curriculum, taught by novelist and essayist Rosecrans Baldwin, whose new memoir, Paris, I Love You but You’re Bringing Me Down, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux this coming May. Baldwin describes the Documentary Essay class: The personal essay blends journalism [...]
Interview with Shane Lavalette, Juror’s Pick, 2011 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Work-in-Process Prize
Interview with Shane Lavalette Juror’s Pick (Whitney Johnson), Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Work-in-Process Prize What captivates you most about the South? The musical history of the South is so rich and complex, it made for a natural point of departure for this body of work. I’m captivated by the stories passed down in song, and how [...]
January 30: Deadline for Fall 2012 Admission to the MFA in Experimental & Documentary Arts Program
Duke’s Master of Fine Arts in Experimental & Documentary Arts (MFAEDA) is now accepting applications for Fall 2012 admission. A unique initiative, the MFAEDA couples experimental visual practice with the documentary arts in a two-year program. Application to the MFAEDA is a two part process, consisting of the Graduate School Application and the Portfolio Submission. [...]
Barbara Tyroler: Work by Spring 2012 Continuing Education Instructor
Barbara Tyroler will be teaching the Photography Projects Seminar in the spring 2012 term for the Continuing Education program at the Center for Documentary Studies. To learn more about the course and to register, please visit the Continuing Education registration site. Barbara Tyroler produces site-specific portraiture for corporations, universities, and health-oriented nonprofits. Tyroler, who has an [...]
Claire Schoen: Work by Spring 2012 Continuing Education Instructor
Claire Schoen will be a workshop, From Soup to Nuts: Documentary Audio Production, in two locations in the spring 2012 term for the Continuing Education program at the Center for Documentary Studies. To learn more about the course and to register, please visit the Continuing Education registration site. Claire Schoen has worked as an independent [...]
CDS Undergraduate Class Debuts Photos and Multimedia Slideshows of Elementary-School Life, Monday, December 12
Students from the Center for Documentary Studies who spent the fall semester documenting life at the George Watts Elementary School in Durham will display their multimedia slideshows and photos on Monday, December 12. The event is free and open to the public. Students will be on hand to talk about their experiences at the school, [...]
Save the Date: Showings of MFA Student Works-in-Progress, December 13
Duke’s first MFA program invites the public to showings of the documentary works-in-progress of the fifteen students from the inaugural class. The students are all enrolled in the first year Documentary Fieldwork seminar taught by Alex Harris. The work of three students—Philip Brubaker, Wolfgang Hastert, and Jolene Mok was shown on Tuesday, December 6 (see end [...]
MFAEDA Blog Launches
The blog of the MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts, “MFAEDA Viewfinder,” launched at the end of November. Categories include “Student Work,” “Faculty Work,” “News and Events,” “Visiting Artists,” “Projects and Collaborations,” and “Art Elsewhere,” and “Ponderings.” “We’d love for Viewfinder to be an active place to find news and information on what faculty and [...]
Spring 2012 Undergraduate Courses Announced
The undergraduate program in Documentary Studies allows undergraduate students to connect their educational experiences to broader community life through documentary fieldwork projects. Program courses challenge students to combine intellectual ideas with grassroots engagement as they use tools of documentary inquiry to learn and render in various mediums. Documentary Studies students combine their coursework with a [...]
Podcasts Available: Projects from the 2011 Summer Audio Institute
“Hearing Is Believing” is a one-week continuing-education course offered every summer at the Center for Documentary Studies. Each July, 24 people come from across the country to learn the basics of audio documentary-making and to collaborate with a fellow participant in producing a short piece. This year the stories emerged from a collaboration between CDS [...]
Duke Magazine Website Features “Documenting Duke” Audio Work by CDS Undergraduates
Through a collaboration between the Center for Documentary Studies and Duke Magazine, students in John Biewen’s undergraduate classes “Introduction to Audio Documentary” and “The Short Audio Documentary” have produced audio features to complement stories featured in the magazine. Among the recent audio pieces posted to Duke Magazine’s website is a piece by Elisabeth Michel, who [...]
Register Now for “Photography Kickstarter” Workshop October 22 and 29 with Ava Johnson
Photography Kickstarter: Darkroom Basics is a two-day workshop (Saturdays, October 22 and 29, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., lunch break on your own) that will give beginning photographers as well as more advanced students a chance to practice and enhance their darkroom skills. This workshop provides an opportunity to develop that black-and-white film sitting around in the [...]
Elaine Lawless: “Missed Representations: Visual Imagery of Intimate Partner Violence” and the Troubling Violence Performance Project
Folklorists’ research often takes them into communities about which outsiders know little, but Elaine Lawless, Professor of English at the University of Missouri and current Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professor at UNC and Duke, took an unusually imaginative and harrowing step when she decided to spend her sabbatical year volunteering at a shelter for women fleeing [...]
Register Now for “Performance Storytelling” Workshop November 12 with Jeff Polish
“Performance Storytelling” is a one-day CDS Continuing Education workshop (Saturday, November 12, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.; bring a bag lunch) that will explore the process of developing a short personal narrative to be told in front of an audience. Students, with instructor guidance, will begin by analyzing successful stories and performances at “The Monti StorySLAM,” a [...]
Teka Selman on Duke’s New MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts
Teka Selman is the assistant director of Duke’s Master of Fine Arts in Experimental and Documentary Arts. Her experience in the arts ranges from commercial to nonprofit arts management, most recently as partner at Branch Gallery in Durham, North Carolina. Selman received an MA in Art History and Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths, University of London, [...]
Katina Parker: Work by Fall 2011 Continuing Education Instructor
Katina Parker will be teaching four courses in the fall 2011 term for the Continuing Education program at the Center for Documentary Studies: Video Projects Seminar Experimental Eye Candy Exploits in New Media & Emerging Technologies Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality in Media To learn more about these courses, please click on the course title [...]
“Civil Rights: Then and Now: A Conversation with Mike Wiley and Tim Tyson” on October 7 at the Hayti Heritage Center
Friday, October 7, 6 p.m. (reception), 6:30 p.m. (conversation) Hayti Heritage Center, 804 Old Fayetteville Street, Durham, North Carolina In conjunction with the PlayMakers Repertory Company’s production of his play The Parchman Hour, acclaimed actor and playwright Mike Wiley will talk with award-winning author and historian Tim Tyson about the legacies of the Civil Rights [...]
Master of Fine Arts in Experimental and Documentary Arts Fall 2011 Inaugural Class
The Master of Fine Arts in Experimental and Documentary Arts at Duke University brings together two forms of artistic activity—the documentary approach and experimental production in analog, digital, and computational media—in a unique program that will foster collaborations across disciplines and media as it trains sophisticated, creative art practitioners. Successful completion of the program requires [...]
