March 20–April 18, 2015
Opening: Friday, March 20, 5–8pm
Power Plant
American Tobacco Campus
318 Blackwell Street
Durham, North Carolina
Duke University’s Master of Fine Arts in Experimental and Documentary Arts is proud to announce its spring thesis exhibition, MFA|EDA 2015.
Featuring site-specific projects by 14 MFA|EDA graduating students, the exhibition presents a tremendous range of work including presentations of film and video, installation, photography, interactive arts, sound and multimedia, across Duke’s campus and downtown Durham, March 20–April 18.
MFA|EDA 2015 kick off
Friday, March 20, 5–8pm
Power Plant at the American Tobacco Campus
318 Blackwell Street, Durham, North Carolina
The exhibition continues in March and April with a series of openings, film premieres, artist talks and screenings at venues including The Carrack Modern Art, SPECTRE Arts, the Fredric Jameson Gallery, and the Power Plant Gallery at the American Tobacco Campus.
To view work from the exhibitions and to access a detailed schedule of events, directions and information on the artists, click here.
Exhibiting in MFA|EDA 2015:
Aaron Canipe, Matthew Cicanese, Tracy Fish, Anna Kipervaser, Aaron Kutnick, Haodong Li, Ava Lowrey, Jonna McKone, Nicholas Pilarski, Mendal Polish, Windrose Stanback, libi rose (striegl), Alina J. Taalman, grant yarolin
MFA|EDA 2015 is supported by the Center for Documentary Studies; Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies; the program in the Arts of the Moving Image; the Kenan Institute for Ethics; the Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts at Duke University; The Carrack Modern Art; and SPECTRE Arts.
A unique initiative, the MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts (MFA|EDA) at Duke University couples experimental visual practice with the documentary arts in a rigorous two-year program. For more than three decades, Duke has demonstrated leadership in documentary arts, film and video, and visual studies. Drawing upon this commitment to the arts, as well as the university’s existing strengths in historical, theoretical and technological scholarship, the MFA|EDA offers a distinct learning environment that sees interdisciplinary education as a benchmark for significant innovation. More information on the program, faculty, curriculum and application guidelines is available on the MFA|EDA website. Additional inquiries may be sent to [email protected].
