Videos Available, Press “Play”: Duke Students Film Big Boi and MSTRKRFT at the Yorktown Throwdown
Last fall, Center for Documentary Studies film instructor Gary Hawkins and Emily LaDue, production coordinator at Duke’s program in the Arts of the Moving Image, took a vanload of current and former Duke film-production students to the Yorktown Throwdown in Charleston, South Carolina. The mission: to film Big Boi and dance-electronic duo MSTRKRFT at the [...]
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, [...]
Certificate in Documentary Arts Graduates, Fall 2011: Final Project Presentations, December 9, Nasher Museum of Art
Nine graduating students in the Certificate in Documentary Arts program at the Center for Documentary Studies will present their final projects at 6 p.m. on December 9 at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. The event is free and open to the public. The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University offers continuing [...]
Undergraduate Documentaries: Stories of Homelessness and Finding Home Again, December 5 at the Durham County Library
Eleven Duke undergraduates from the Center for Documentary Studies and the Hart Leadership Program will present their short documentaries on homelessness or formerly homeless individuals living in the Triangle at an event hosted by Housing for New Hope, an organization that has been working for almost twenty years to prevent and end homelessness in Durham [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Judith Van Wyk: Work by Fall 2011 Continuing Education Instructor
Judith Van Wyk will be teaching “Mastering the Skills of a Good Producer” in the fall 2011 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. Judith Van Wyk is an independent writer/producer who chairs the [...]
Harlan Campbell: Work by Fall 2011 Continuing Education Instructor
Harlan Campbell will be teaching Digital Printing Tutorial in the fall 2011 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. Harlan Campbell is the photography and digital arts associate at the Center for Documentary Studies. [...]
Joanne Mulcahy: Work by Fall 2011 Continuing Education Instructor
Joanne Mulcahy will be teaching “Food, Family, and Community: A Nonfiction Workshop” in the fall 2011 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. Joanne B. Mulcahy teaches at the Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis [...]
Christopher Sims: Work by Fall 2011 Continuing Education Instructor
Christopher Sims will be teaching Publishing and Promoting Your Doc on the Web in the fall 2011 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. Christopher Sims has an undergraduate degree in history from Duke [...]
Leah Sobsey: Work by Fall 2011 Continuing Education Instructor
Leah Sobsey will be teaching the Alternative Process Workshop for photography in the fall 2011 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. Leah Sobsey is an artist and educator. She received her M.F.A. from the [...]
Meg Daniels: Work by Fall 2011 Continuing Education Instructor
Meg Daniels will be teaching Visual Storytelling in the fall 2011 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. Meg Daniels grew up in upstate New York, where she received her B.F.A. from the Rochester [...]
Continuing Education Certificate Projects Spring 2011
View the final projects of the graduates in the Certificate in Documentary Arts program in spring 2011: John Crane, Paul Deblinger, Eric Douglas, Chelsea Flowers, Conrad Fulkerson, Paige Greason, Jeremy Helton, Eileen Heyes, and Kurney Ramsey, Jr. Videos are available to watch here and on CDS Vimeo. Read more about the spring 2011 Certificate in [...]
Catherine Orr and Elena Rue: Work by Fall 2011 Continuing Education Instructors
Catherine Orr and Elena Rue will be teaching Beginning Multimedia Storytelling in the fall 2011 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. Catherine Orr is a multimedia storyteller who enjoys nearly all aspects of [...]
Kelvin De’Marcus Allen, W. Calvin Anderson, Jaisun McMillian, and Victor Stone: Work by Fall 2011 Continuing Education Instructors
Kelvin De’Marcus Allen, W. Calvin Anderson, Jaisun McMillian, and Victor Stone will be teaching Then and Now: A Hayti Civics Course in the fall 2011 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. Kelvin De’Marcus [...]
Jim Haverkamp: Work by Fall 2011 Continuing Education Instructor
Jim Haverkamp will be teaching Applied Documentary Editing with Final Cut Pro, and the Advanced Video Projects Seminar, in the fall 2011 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. Jim Haverkamp is an award-winning filmmaker [...]
Abigail Blosser: Work by Fall 2011 Continuing Education Instructor
Abigail Blosser will be teaching Documentary Portraiture: A View from Two Sides in the fall 2011 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. Abigail Blosser is a practicing artist and photographer. Her art has [...]
“Southern Slices” CDS Audio Projects Being Aired on Radio Stations Nationwide
A collection of student pieces from the summer Audio Institute at CDS have been broadcast on radio stations nationwide. The collection, “Southern Slices,” features student work from 2003–2007, and is hosted by CDS audio program director John Biewen. “Southern Slices” was featured on a summer playlist on the Public Radio Exchange, and has recently aired [...]
