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