Duke Arts Annex

We will be closed this Sunday for a staff training. We’ll see y’all the following Tuesday! 🕺

Do you like a challenge? The Arts Annex is holding a contest! Who can make the best-oversized art supplies out of cardboard and other recycled goods? The winner of this competition will get 2 seats at an Arts Annex wheel-throwing workshop! Work as a pair or solo. All materials will be provided. We are providing two drop-in dates to work with other folks taking on this contest on September 13th and 27th from 7-9 pm. However, you have until October 11th to submit your cardboard sculpture. All sculptures will be used to decorate the Arts Annex!

Join the Arts Annex on September 4th and September 20th from 7-9 pm to unleash your creativity by crafting exclusively from recycled materials! At this workshop you will explore how to bring a more sustainable approach to your creative practices. This program will introduce our Creative Reuse corner of the Arts Annex. All materials will be provided. Each workshop will have a different craft. Register on DukeGroups.

We hope everyone had a restful and fun summer break! The Arts Annex will be resuming open hours starting on August 27th! Come create with us 🎨
For new students, the Arts Annex is a hub for creativity on campus—we offer free acrylic/watercolor paints, sewing machines/kits, access to a ceramics studio/clay, screenprinting supplies, and much more! Come check out the Arts Annex, one of our staff will be happy to show you around 🕺

Are you looking for a fun, flexible, and creative job? Do you have a passion for art and like to be around other artists? If you are interested in being a part of the Arts Annex team then apply on JobX. We are looking for Front Desk Assistants and a Ceramic Studio Assistant. Email [email protected] with any questions.

We have made some changes to our summer Open Hours schedule due to staff availability. Starting this Sunday, June 2nd we will be open from 12-5pm each Sunday in June and July. Come meet our incredible Graduate Assistants, check out our art supplies, and use our space. We look forward to seeing what you create this summer! Plus, we have great news all projects created in January and February have now been fired. Come pick up your project on Sunday!

Meet Julianna, another one of our amazing front desk staff! Julianna loves seeing everyone’s amazing creations at the Arts Annex and working with a such fun team 😉 Julianna will leave for her physical therapy clinical rotations starting in July! She’ll be based in Denver, Baltimore, and one more undetermined location for her rotations. After that, she plans to become a performing arts physical therapist! 🕺🩰🪩 Congratulations Julianna, you will be missed!

The Arts Annex will be closed this Sunday for a staff meeting! We’ll see y’all the following Tuesday during our regular hours 😎

Introducing Katie, our next feature in our Meet the Team series! Katie works at our front desk and has been with us since 2021. She enjoys seeing everyone come into the Annex and express themselves in their own ways!
Katie will graduate this semester and then move to Florida, where she will achieve her lifelong dream of working as a dolphin trainer! 🐬 Congratulations Katie! 🥳

Get ready to dive into our new series featuring the amazing staff who support the Arts Annex!
Meet Tashia, one of our front desk assistants who has been with the Arts Annex for around a year. Tashia’s favorite part of working at the Annex is seeing other peoples’ creativity and loves to create art like poetry, video, and photography. 📸🎞️✍️ They are also graduating this semester with a degree in African and African American studies!! 🥳🥳

Join the Arts Annex’s team in exploring LGBTQ comics! At 7pm, we will learn how to make our own comic strips and at 8pm we will watch the film “No Straight Lines: Rise of Q***r Comics”. This event is in collaboration with Blue Devils Make Comics 🕺✍️

Thank you to everyone who came out for our patchmaking event, led by one of our amazing desk assistants, Tashia! We had an awesome time learning about ways to enjoy slow fashion and making patches 🕺

The Arts Annex will be closed from March 9th-18th for Spring Break! 🌱🌼

We’ll be closed on Sunday, March 3rd. We’ll see y’all the following Tuesday 🕺

Thank you so much to everyone who came out to our Lunar New Year event, hosted by Alicia, our GA! We had a lot of fun making lanterns and red envelopes 🧧🏮🍊 Here are some pics of all of the beautiful works made 🕺

The Ceramic Studios will be closed for the rest of February due to maintenance. We apologize for the inconvenience. Any remaining projects will be fired in the next two weeks. Glaze kits are still available to be checked out. We hope you will enjoy our other supplies and kits during this time. For questions or concerns please email [email protected]

Happening now at the BC Plaza and the Rubenstein Art Center! Come write letters to loved ones! We have all the supplies you need. Find a way to show gratitude to someone in your life today. ——Thanks to the Duke Career Center for asking us to collaborate! Interested in partnering with the Arts Annex on an event? Send an email to [email protected]

Join the Arts Annex team in making fun, hand stitched patches from recycled fabric! Come prepared with a simple design idea. February 23rd 7-9pm in the Fibers Studio at the Arts Annex. Register on DukeGroups!

The Arts Annex is closed for open hours on Sunday due to a staff training! We’ll see y’all the following Tuesday though 😎

Thanks to everyone that came to the Reduce, Reuse, Recycle…RECREATE event! We had a blast creating art out of recycled materials. If you didn’t get a chance to come to the event no worries our new Creative Reuse Corner is available during our open hours. Come challenge yourself by creating only from recycled materials! We will continue to host a sustainability and art event every semester, this program series and Creative Reuse corner is the beginning innovative to bring more sustainability to the Arts Annex. Thank you to Scrap Exchange for guiding us in this process and supplying materials. Join us for our open hours Tuesday-Sunday and to stay up to date on events join our DukeGroups!

Come celebrate the year of the dragon with us! 🐉 We’ll have craft stations to make red envelopes and paper lanterns! 🧧🏮🕺
Please register on dukegroups if you are interested, we look forward to seeing y’all!!

Come celebrate the year of the dragon with us! 🐉 We will have craft stations to make red envelopes and paper lanterns 🧧🏮🕺
Please register on dukegroups—we look forward to seeing you!

The Arts Annex will be present at both of these events! Come learn more about the Arts Annex and other amazing resources that Duke has to offer!

Unleash your creativity by crafting exclusively from recycled materials! Join the Arts Annex Team on Jan 26th from 7-9pm in learning how to bring a more sustainable approach to your creative practice. This program will introduce our new Creative Reuse Corner at the Arts Annex. All materials will be provided. Come create with us! Make sure to register on Duke Groups. Thank you to the Scrap Exchange for helping the Arts Annex establish our small Creative Reuse corner!

Welcome back everyone! We hope you all had a restful break 😌 We look forward to seeing you as our normal hours resume 🕺

See y’all January 16th!! Have a restful break! We can’t wait to see the creative ideas you all bring to life in 2024 at the Annex!!!

Come join our team! Apply on JobX!!!

We all had a great time at the end of semester event at the Arts Annex. Bob Ross painting, working on our staff mural, and screen-printing! We have good news, the Arts Annex will be hosting more events and workshops like this in 2024!!! Stay up to date on DukeGroups! Thanks for a fantastic semester! We will see you all on January 16th when we open back up for the Spring. Semester. Have a restful winter break!

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