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MFA Showing Documentary Student Works-in-Progress Today

Alex Harris students on display at new MFA Campus Drive offices

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A photo from "Heart of Durham" by Joel Wanek: A film about some of the histories and mysteries of Durham, set at the Durham Bus Station, the site of the former Heart of Durham Hotel

Duke's first MFA program
invites the public to showings of the documentary works-in-progress of 15
students enrolled in the first year Documentary Fieldwork seminar taught by
Alex Harris. Works by many of the students will be shown from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on
Tuesday (today).

The MFA in Experimental and Documentary
Arts
 at Duke brings together two forms of artistic
activity -- the documentary approach and experimental production in a two-year
program that will foster collaboration across disciplines and media. MFAEDA
students work with faculty from the program's three founding units: the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies,
the Center for Documentary Studies,
and the Program in the Arts of the Moving
Image
, as well as from the Uuiversity at large.

The program seeks applicants from across the arts spectrum, whether
based in traditional fine arts or experimental practice such as computational
and new media, sound work, performance, and installation.

The
public showing will be located on the 2nd Floor of the Carpentry Shop at 1509
Campus Drive adjacent to Smith Warehouse.