About Us

Experience. Create. Explore with us. Duke Arts champions expansive, inclusive, and impactful arts programs that build meaningful connections between campus, community, and global audiences. Duke Arts invites you to experience, create, and explore the arts with us. Duke Arts champions an expansive and inclusive approach to the arts on campus, throughout Durham, and beyond – showcasing world-class creators and performers, cultivating artists and scholars, and supporting the creation of new works. We foster the study and the expression of art at all levels, and across all forms of creative practice – including music, visual art, dance, cinema, theater, literary, and experimental arts. Duke Arts plays a critical role in building purposeful partnerships between our campus, regional, and global audiences, and brings to life the commitment that the arts are central to Duke's mission to engage the mind and elevate the spirit.