Artifice: What Is Good Art? on view through May 13
Artifice, Team Kenan’s third annual What Is Good Art? exhibition, features photography, painting, collage, sculpture, video and more.
The judging panel included:
Christopher Bass, Vice President at Oak Hill Capital Partners, L.P.
William Fick, Visiting Assistant Professor of the Practice of Visual Arts
Noah Pickus, Director, Kenan Institute for Ethics
Kimerly Rorschach, Director, Nasher Museum of Art
Raquel Salvatella de Prada, Assistant Professor of the Practice of Visual and Media Arts
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Professor in Practical Ethics in the Department of Philosophy and the Kenan Institute for Ethics
Charles Thompson, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Duke Center for Documentary Studies
Monday through Friday, 9am-5pm, through May 13, 2012
West Duke Building (map)
Free and open to the public.
Contact Christian Ferney for more information.
Dive! screening, Mar. 22
Filmmaker Jeremy Seifert and friends rooted around in back alleys and dumpsters behind LA supermarkets to research how food gets sent straight to landfills in Dive! Living Off America’s Food Waste (2010). Graduate student and winner of a Fall 2011 Kenan Institute for Ethics Campus Grant Maureena Thompson has organized a special screening of the film, along with a panel discussion on the ethics of U.S. food policy.
Check back for more information on the post-screening panel.
Co-sponsored by Duke University Libraries.
Free and open to the public.
Thursday, March 22, 7pm
White Lecture Hall, East Campus, Duke University (map)
One Summer in Damak on view through the spring
One Summer in Damak: Glimpses of Life in a Bhutanese Refugee Camp, the product of this summer’s student research trip to Nepal, opened September 12 and runs through Spring 2012 semester. With little hope of returning to Bhutan or being welcomed as citizens of Nepal, the refugees depicted in this 60-plus photograph exhibit confront resettlement to third countries including the United States, with many moving to Durham and surrounding communities. However, within this context of insecurity and uncertainty, they have created lives filled with beauty, work, leisure, school, worship, family, and friends.
The exhibit is part of the Kenan Institute’s Bhutanese Resettlement Project, a multi-site community-based research project in eastern Nepal and Durham exploring the effects of resettlement upon Bhutanese refugees.
West Duke Building (map)
Contact Lou Brown for more information.
