Archer Boyette (she/they)
CV

Education

2021        MFA Experimental & Documentary Arts, Duke University, Durham, NC
            Certificate in College Teaching
2018        Coursework in Darkroom Practices, The Asheville Darkroom, Asheville, NC
2018        Coursework in Filmmaking, Asheville School of Film, Asheville, NC
2017        BA Art History (1900-Present), UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
            Graduated with Distinction

Fellowships & Awards

2023        Top 5% of Instructors Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, Duke University
2022-23     Post MFA Teaching Fellowship, Cinematic Arts, Duke University
2021        Flaherty Film Seminar Fellow
2020-21     Sound Production Fellowship, Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University
2020        Dean’s Research Award, Duke University
2019-20     David & Elizabeth Roderick Scholarship, Duke University


Teaching

2024-25     Instructor, MFA Experimental & Documentary Arts, Duke University
            Genealogies of the Experimental, MFA|EDA Core Course, Fall 2025
            Genealogies of the Experimental, MFA|EDA Core Course, Fall 2024
2021-25     Instructor, Cinematic Arts, Duke University 
            LGBTQ+/Queer Cinema and Cultural Production, Spring 2025
            Film Genres, Fall 2024
            Editing for Film & Video, Spring 2024
            LGBTQ+/Queer Cinema and Cultural Production, Fall 2023
            Moving Image Practice, Fall 2023
            Contemporary Documentary Films, Summer 2023
            Special Topis in Cinematic Arts: Horror Film, Spring 2023
            Contemporary Documentary Films, Spring 2023
            Editing for Film & Video, Spring 2023
            Moving Image Practice, Fall 2022
            Introduction to Digital Photography, Fall 2022
            Editing for Film & Video, Spring 2022
            Moving Image Practice, Fall 2021

2020-21     Teaching Assistant, Duke University
            Documentary Studies Capstone Seminar, Chris Sims, Spring 2021
            History of Documentary Film, Alex Morelli, Fall 2020
            16mm Film Production, Josh Gibson, Fall 2020
            Editing for Film & Video, Lauren Henschel, Summer 2020
            Film Genres, Jason Sudak, Spring 2020

                    
Screenings & Features

2025        I WAS BORNE UPSTAIRS, {Re}HAPPENING 13, Black Mountain College Museum, Black Mountain, NC
2025        we breathe each other in and out of existence, Labocine, April 2025 Issue, Ethnobotanica
2025        we breathe each other in and out of existence, Dream Sequence, Staffordshire St, London, UK
2022        we breathe each other in and out of existence, Analog Cookbook, Issue 6
2021        we breathe each other in and out of existence, Walter Anderson Museum of Art, This Land series
2021        we breathe each other in and out of existence, MFA|EDA Thesis Exhibition, Rubenstein Arts Center, Durham, NC
2019        Encounters, CDS Shortwave, Duke University, Durham, NC
2019        One Last Meet and Greet, Power Plant Gallery, Durham, NC
2019        Mutual Friends, The Asheville Darkroom, Asheville, NC

Experience

2023-25     Programming Assistant, Screen/Society, Duke University, Durham, NC
2024        Artist, Workshop Leader, PHOTO FARM, Chapel Hill, NC
2024        Artist, Workshop Leader, MFA|EDA, Duke University, Durham, NC
2023-25     Freelance Photographer & Videographer, Durham, NC
2022        Projectionist, Spectacle and the Archive, Tom Whiteside, Power Plant Gallery
2019-20     Graduate Assistant, Campus Center Arts, Duke University, Durham, NC
2017        Performing Arts & Film Intern, North Carolina Muesum of Art, Raleigh, NC
2016-17     Circulation Assistant, Sloane Art Library, Chapel Hill, NC
2015-17     College Advisory Panel, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
2016        Historian, St. Anthony Hall, Chapel Hill, NC
2015-16     Outreach Chair, Student Friends of the Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC 
2015-16     Preservation Assistant, Walter Royal Davis Library, Chapel Hill, NC
2015        Visual Arts Director, St. Anthony Hall, Chapel Hill, NC



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