MFA|EDA Thesis Season Debuts a New Generation of Documentary Artists

In order to minimize health and safety risks from COVID-19 to our patrons, the larger community, and Duke students, faculty, and staff, Duke University has adopted new policies on spring semester classes, residential life, travel, events, and campus visitors.

In keeping with the university’s directives, we are cancelling public events at the Rubenstein Arts Center through April 20, including MFA|EDA events.

The MFA EDA program will be sharing updates to its planned exhibitions and installations soon. More information.

Starting March 16, Duke University’s MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts celebrates the artists of the class of 2020 in the program’s annual thesis exhibition.

“The MFA|EDA 2020 thesis show and the stories it tells spans geographies from the most local to the global, art work from the intimate and personal to the deeply political, told across mediums of audio, photography, film, performance, and installation. The MFA|EDA thesis season annually offers us a window into the transformational vision of a new generation of documentary artists.”
—Tom Rankin, director of the MFA|EDA program and professor of the practice of art and documentary

Exhibitions, installations, and screenings will be presented around campus, in downtown Durham at the Power Plant Gallery, NorthStar Church of the Arts, Full Frame Theater, and at Cassilhaus. This year the Rubenstein Arts Center is also supporting three installations and five events.

In Rankin’s words: “The diversity of exhibitions and screenings are not to be missed.”