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The Ruby is a catalyst for creativity and a home for making art at Duke.

In Fall 2018, Duke University’s Power Plant Gallery and Forum for Scholars and Publics, in collaboration with a number of campus and community partners, are presenting a series of events exploring the histories and stories behind the Visionary Aponte exhibition and its timely meditations on slavery, Black incarceration, revolution, and artistic expression.

Édouard Duval-Carrié.

During his Rubenstein Art Center residency, Duval-Carrié and local collaborators will work side-by-side and in dialogue to create new works for the larger Visionary Aponte project. Students from various classes at Duke—including Laurent Dubois’s graduate-level Public Scholarship course, undergraduate classes dealing with Caribbean history, literature, and art, as well as students in dance and studio art classes—will be able to visit the Ruby’s painting studio and see the works-in-progress.

Édouard Duval-Carrié // Prester John and His Emissaries, 2017, mixed media on Arches watercolor paper in artist frame, 36 x 26 inches. (courtesy of the artist and Pan American Art Projects, Miami)

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Visionary Aponte: Art & Black Freedom is a nine-week art exhibit and accompanying series of conversations, screenings, performances, residencies, and workshops at Duke University organized by the Power Plant Gallery and the Forum for Scholars and Publics. The exhibit is curated by Édouard Duval-Carrié and Ada Ferrer and is based on a digital humanities project called Digital Aponte.

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