Professor Guo-Juin Hong’s First-year Audioviualities Seminar took a class fieldtrip to the Power Plant Gallery at American Tobacco Campus: “an off-site extension of the arts at Duke, promoting visual arts engagement with students, faculty and visitors from Durham and beyond.” The 1,500 square foot exhibition space  “is equipped to exhibit a range of media, from photography and painting to video and installation.  Featuring a rotating program of work by Duke students, faculty, and visiting scholars, as well as locally, nationally and internationally recognized artists, the gallery is a new and exciting addition to the growing, vibrant Durham art scene.” (source)

They were given a tour of the gallery by Teka Selman,  Power Plant Gallery director and the assistant director of Duke’s Master of Fine Arts in Experimental and Documentary Arts.

The Gallery’s current exhibition is called “In Practice: Work by Duke Arts Faculty” and includes a range of works from seventeen Duke faculty members and instructors opening from three arts units at the university: the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies(AAHVS), and the Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI).