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Nov 13, 2025 - The 2025–26 season features artists in music, comedy, theater, and more—including Atsuko Okatsuka, Morgan Freeman’s Symphonic Blues Experience, and...

May 10, 2024 - John V. Brown, Vice Provost for the Arts, shares exciting updates about Duke Arts. "We are entering the academic year with a new look and feel that brings...

Sashiko (刺し子, meaning "little pokes" or "small piercing") is a form of functional embroidery that originated in...

Oct 24, 2025 - Use running stitches to create accents and all over design to embellish your clothing and textile projects.

Feb 6, 2026 - Duke ArtsPresents Artistic Excellence. Bold New Work. Upcoming events include puppet wrestling at The Fruit, hip-hop fusion with Ephrat Asherie Dance and...

Jan 16, 2026 - Free workshops open to Duke undergraduates, graduate and professional students (including health), faculty and staff Duke Arts Create is a series of free...

Jul 31, 2025 - Recognizing the creative arts as both an expression of the worship of God and an expression of human longing for God, the Chapel cultivates a robust music...

Jun 3, 2025 - Spend six weeks during the summer gaining full-time hands-on professional experience in the arts. This program offers several project options and is open to...

Dec 1, 2025 - From December 4–6, Duke Arts presents Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce in the Reynolds Industries Theater—a glittering, heartfelt spectacular that...

Mar 31, 2025 - Built in 1926 as a produce wholesaler, this building just east of downtown was later in the vanguard of the city’s revitalization, serving first as the...

Nov 10, 2025 - Theatre of Music has joined forces with composer Steven Bryant to create an immersive, multi-disciplinary work inspired by Belgian surrealist painter René...

May 6, 2025 - The von der Heyden Studio Theater supports a wide variety of performances unlike any other venue on Duke’s campus. A moveable platform with 108 seats can be...

Feb 17, 2026 - Championing expansive, inclusive, & impactful programs that build meaningful connections between campus, community, & global audiences.

Jan 14, 2026 - News & Stories Stories about the arts across Duke, including news announcements, profiles on students, faculty, and visiting artists, special features, and...

Dec 6, 2025 - In TESTO by Wet Mess, Wet Messifies the messiness of life with teeth and one chin hair; exploring transitions, testosterone, and the edges of drag.

Apr 4, 2025 - Duke Arts is committed to engaging our communities at Duke, in Durham and beyond by connecting you with professional artists from around the globe. Duke Arts...

Nov 10, 2025 - Bear Grease is an unapologetically Indigenous musical—a loving clap back to the classic hit musical and film Grease.

Sep 26, 2024 - The Bryan Center is Duke’s student union located in the heart of West Campus. Home of 3 of the university’s performance theaters and the...

Nov 10, 2025 - Cuarteto Casals specializes in under-represented repertoire of their native Spain. They pair a quartet by Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga with works of Beethoven and...

May 6, 2025 - A recently renovated 1170-seat auditorium, Page Auditorium is one of the oldest buildings on Duke’s West Campus. Facing Duke Chapel, it is accessible via the...

Nov 10, 2025 - Praised for their 'sumptuous sweetness and laser-like clarity' (BBC Music Magazine), Doric String Quartet has earned international acclaim. Tracing a...

Nov 17, 2025 - In October, students at Durham School of the Arts (DSA) took part in a masterclass with the British vocal ensemble The King’s Singers, in Durham for a public...

Jun 12, 2025 - Duke Arts is proud to announce the 2025–26 Duke Arts Presents season—a wide-ranging and joyful testament to the power of the arts to engage the mind and...

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Mar 14, 2025 - The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is an annual international event dedicated to the theatrical exhibition of nonfiction cinema.

Jul 31, 2025 - The Rubenstein Arts Center is a hub for artistic production at Duke University and a new arts venue for the Triangle. Students, faculty, visiting artists, and...

Sep 12, 2025 - Screen/Society provides ambitious film programming for the Triangle community, specializing in theatrical premieres of global and independent art films and...

Nov 10, 2025 - Described by BBC Music Magazine as a ‘sonically daring ensemble’, the Akropolis Reed Quintet has commissioned more than 150 new works by living composers...

Oct 28, 2025 - We will learn to make botanical gel prints straight from plants! Each print will give you two beautiful images- a silhouette and something resembling a...

Nov 21, 2025 - Leaders from liberal arts universities across Asia gathered at Duke Kunshan University for the Annual Presidents’ Forum of the Alliance of Asian Liberal Arts

The Benenson Awards in the Arts provide funding for fees, travel and other educational expenses for arts-centered projects proposed by Duke University...

Jan 13, 2026 - time/life/beauty by Michael Sakamoto and DJ Spooky blends hip-hop, new music, dance, and media visuals, honoring Ryuichi Sakamoto’s legacy through...

Nov 10, 2025 - Led by Troy Anthony, "The Revival: It Is Our Duty" blends gospel, ritual, and joy—inviting all into a healing celebration of liberation, identity,...

Nov 10, 2025 - An ensemble of Native and Indigenous jazz musicians led by vocalist Julia Keefe, celebrating the genre's deep Indigenous roots with standards and...

Our hybrid-learning model allows you to keep your job, build a community focused on spiritual formation, meet UMC deacon’s requirements, and discern your...

Mar 18, 2025 - The Arts Annex is a hub of Duke’s student art scene and houses studio arts (including ceramics, screen printing, and visual arts), rehearsal, and programming...

Nov 13, 2025 - DEMAN connects Duke alumni working in creative professions with each other, with campus arts departments and programs, and with students interested in entering...

Nov 10, 2025 - Duke’s resident Ciompi Quartet revisits "Memoirs," a 2003 composition by the late Paul Schoenfield. Works by Bach and Schubert round out the...

Nov 24, 2025 - We are excited to feature Amelia Shull, multidisciplinary artist and educator, in our new Art of Renewal series. This series spotlights how Duke Arts Create...

Nov 10, 2025 - Marc Ribot performs re-interpretations and re-framings of Bob Dylan’s mid 1960s-era visionary poetry, the poetic environment from which Dylan’s work...

Sep 12, 2025 - This popular series by Duke Arts Presents features eight concerts by world-renowned small ensembles selected by the Chamber Arts Society of Durham.

Dec 5, 2025 - Taylor Mac takes on the holidays to celebrate the season in all its dysfunction. "For all those who find caroling, eggnog and enforced family visits...

Nov 5, 2025 - The energy inside Reynolds Industries Theater on October 25 was electric. Before a single note was played, the audience was laughing – drawn in by Morgan...

Jan 24, 2025 - 32 Sounds is an immersive documentary and profound sensory experience from Oscar-nominated documentarian Sam Green.

Oct 28, 2025 - Benenson Awards in the Arts funding is available for arts-centered projects proposed by Duke University undergraduate students, including graduating seniors....

Nov 10, 2025 - Percussion innovators Tyshawn Sorey and Sandbox Percussion celebrate the centenary of legendary drummer, composer, and innovator Max Roach with original...

There are endless things that can be done with this unique printmaking process; for this class we will be learning to make botanical prints straight from...

Nov 10, 2025 - John Scofield’s Trio blends original jazz, standards, and surprising covers in an energetic, intuitive live format.

Sep 5, 2025 - A Note on Campus Improvements: Duke University is undertaking major renewal projects on East Campus that may temporarily affect access to Baldwin Auditorium...

Dec 19, 2025 - The National Dance Theatre Company is the beating heart of Jamaica’s cultural legacy, enchanting audiences worldwide with its spellbinding performances and...

Jan 30, 2025 - Student Programs Duke Arts Fellows Duke Arts Fellows seeks to promote arts education in schools with less robust arts programs. Fellows are paired one-to-one...

Aug 27, 2025 - Before his death, Louis Sudler, a Chicago industrialist to whom the arts had been a major source of life satisfaction, endowed an annual prize in the arts at...

Through research, teaching, and arts programming, DITA promotes and supports the vibrant interplay between Christian theology and the arts by encouraging...

May 6, 2025 - Reynolds Industries Theater, located on the upper level of Duke University’s Bryan Center on West Campus, is a 620-capacity proscenium house with raked...

Oct 15, 2025 - Duke Arts Fellows is an academic yearlong program connecting Duke undergraduates with Durham Public Schools educators and Duke faculty mentors. Duke Arts...