5: Arts
Transform the Arts at Duke Other Information:
We will raise the level of the arts on campus, enhancing programming, expanding curricular opportunities, supporting cross-disciplinary
research, improving facilities, and providing ongoing leadership. -- The arts are vital to reaching the fullness of human
experience and achieving a well-rounded education. They give intellectual and emotional texture to daily life and create community
through the sharing of concerts, exhibitions, readings, and productions. The arts are, therefore, fundamental to Duke's teaching
and research mission, providing historical and cultural insight, offering diverse perspectives on human behavior and concerns,
and affording students opportunities to experience artistic creation and production. Over the years, Duke - as other comparable
research universities - has struggled to create an environment where the arts are central to the university and where they
are clearly valued and widely supported. In promoting this revitalization of the arts, we seek to integrate the creative and
interpretative dimensions of the arts, so as to encourage closer interaction between theory and practice, the intellectual
and the avocational. The opening of the Nasher Museum of Art in 2005 is a milestone in the university's full recognition of
the importance of the arts. Since its inauguration, it has become a major cultural force, serving as a destination for the
campus as well as the wider community. As we have come to learn, a dynamic campus arts scene is essential for recruiting and
retaining the highest quality undergraduate, graduate, and professional students, and for attracting the most outstanding
faculty and researchers, who often seek to live and work in an environment where the arts are of the highest quality. As we
move forward, we will focus on five areas:
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