Rubenstein Arts Center

RESIST COVID/TAKE 6! Outdoor Exhibition

An unprecedented outdoor exhibition and public awareness campaign by nationally renowned artist Carrie Mae Weems.

Bill Fick Sparks Action Through Screen Printing

Bill Fick shares his recent political prints, which you might also spot in and around Durham. Fick is assistant director of visual and studio arts for the Rubenstein Arts Center and lecturing fellow in the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies.

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The Best Virtual Dukecreate Workshops to Tune into This Fall

As the Duke community continues to practice social distancing this fall, DukeCreate will offer free workshops in a wide range of arts practices, including dance, visual art, music, film and creative technology.

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Duke Performances Announces Virtual Fall Season

Duke Performances is excited to announce our Virtual Fall season – The Show Must Go Online! High-quality, commissioned films featuring artists originally slated for in-person performances will premiere on Vimeo for ticket holders.

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Welcome to the Ruby

The Rubenstein Arts Center is a hub for artistic production at Duke University and a new venue for public programs.

Welcome to the Ruby

The Rubenstein Arts Center is a hub for artistic production at Duke University and a new venue for public programs.

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A new home for Duke Dance

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.

Theater and Productions 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

Film theater, empty seats, viewed from behind.

The von der Heyden Studio Theater

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.

Flexible studios designed with the arts in mind

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.

A group of twenty or so students stand in a studio waving mid-song.

Studios to create, space to exhibit

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.

Tall windows overlooking trees, bare cement floor in the foreground.

New studios for WXDU 88.7 FM

WXDU, Duke’s non-commercial, student-run radio station, has moved from East Campus into custom-designed studio space in the Ruby.

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Gig spot and study room

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.

Students in lobby working on tables outside of the doors to the theater.

Take a class

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.