A new annual film series at Duke will allow guest curators to translate their personal, critical vision of experimental documentary cinema into five exploratory evenings of film.
Drop by the Ruby for a reception celebrating the closing of Stephen Hayes: Selected Works and the opening of Cornered.
In this video installation by Duke filmmaking professor Shambhavi Kaul, airplane space is inhabited by characters for whom “escape”—one of the promises of airplane technology—proves elusive.
Duke's new arts center is "a beautiful, beautiful building" that gives her students the facilities and central gathering place they've long needed, says ADF dean Leah Cox.
With the opening of the Ruby, Duke’s Dance Program has a new home for classes, performances, and staff and faculty offices. The arts center has two dedicated dance studios and two multipurpose dance studios.
The 100-seat arts center film theater can screen both archival and digital formats. With the opening of the Ruby, Duke’s Arts of the Moving Image Program (AMI) has a new home for its teaching and production studios
The von der Heyden Studio Theater supports a wide variety of performances unlike any other venue on Duke’s campus. With a moveable seat platform, a huge projection screen, and windows that can let in natural light or be blacked out, it can be configured in many ways.
The six multipurpose studios reflect one of the Ruby’s highest design priorities: flexibility. Each can be adapted to suit creative work in any medium.
The Badger-Mars Visual Arts Wing at the Ruby spans two floors on the building’s east side and includes an Innovation Co-Lab makerspace, a multipurpose and painting studio, and an exhibit/critique room.
WXDU, Duke’s non-commercial, student-run radio station, has moved from East Campus into custom-designed studio space in the Ruby.
Hang-out space and study room by day, performance venue and practice studio by night, the Ruby Lounge was designed for Duke’s creative student community.
There are three seminar-size classrooms in the arts center. By taking a class in the Ruby, or applying to teach your class there, you put yourself in the center of Duke's arts scene.
See what’s on at the Ruby, where you can see a Duke Performances show, the latest from Duke’s 70+ student art groups, public exhibits, and more.
View All EventsCreative Arts Student Teams: a new opportunity for arts-interested students to support the Ruby behind the scenes.
