Chapter 4 - Academic Goals and Strategies to Build Distinction
The Nasher Museum of Art is rapidly moving forward to achieve its goal of being one of the finest university museums in the country. To fully realize the Nasher's promise, we will provide support for its operation and programming so that it can partner with major museums in attracting the highest quality of exhibitions, such as the upcoming Velasquez exhibit in conjunction with the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
The Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) has established a strong identity as an artistic and social consciousness at Duke and has developed a national reputation as a destination for serious documentary artists and students. We will support its closer academic links with Trinity College, particularly in the development of a new digital media lab on Central Campus. With the possible move of CDS to Central Campus, we will seek to increase collaboration between CDS and other parts of the university, while supporting its efforts to maintain its strong links to both the local, national, and international communities.
Duke Performances has witnessed a 300% student attendance increase since it introduced its discount ticket program two years ago, and over the past decade it has grown in importance as a cultural force on campus. Just as the Nasher brings some of the finest visual art to campus, Duke Performances is positioned to play a similar role in the performing arts. Over the next five years, we will increase support for its programming, encourage national and international partnerships, and plan and implement major improvements in facilities.
Duke's location in Durham offers special opportunities that we will capitalize on during the planning period. We will strengthen our growing partnership with the internationally acclaimed Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, which has yielded new course offerings and increased student internships and fellowships. Likewise, our relationship with the renowned American Dance Festival (ADF) - in residence on the Duke campus each summer since 1978 - will be examined to see if both ADF and Duke might benefit from academic year residencies of ADF's talented choreographers and dance companies (perhaps in partnership with Duke Performances). Finally, we will work to forge closer ties between Duke and other vital arts programs in Durham, supporting community-based arts programs in the public schools and other arts education initiatives, and encouraging collaborations and student engagement in the larger community.
Create vibrant arts facilities on all three campuses
Duke seeks to transform each of its three campuses - Central, East, and West - with vibrant new and renovated arts facilities. On the new Central Campus, several arts programs and departments will be brought together in distinctive new facilities. Central will be the home for the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, the Program in Film/Video/Digital, and possibly the Center for Documentary Studies. Also under consideration are facilities for creative writing, dance, digital music, theater, and a visiting artist program; a film theater is envisioned that will serve both the academic programs as well as the wider community. In planning these facilities, we will ensure that there are strong southward pedestrian connections to the Nasher Museum.
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