On May 2nd, Civitella, alongside many of our peer organizations, was notified that our $30,000 2025 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, “to support an artist-in-residence program for U.S. visual artists in the Umbria region of Italy,” had been rescinded....
PEN America has announced their 2025 longlists; the following Civitellians have been nominated. Phillip Lopate (CRF 2011, Juror) is nominated for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay for My Affair with Art House Cinema (Columbia...
We are pleased to announce the inauguration of the Tyburn Foundation Affiliated Fellowship. Each year, the Tyburn Foundation, based in Umbria, will sponsor one or two African artists for a six-week residency. Civitella will be hosting Driaan Claassen (South Africa) in...
Gabriela Ortiz (CRF 2009) won the 2025 Grammy for Best Orchestral Performance (“Ortiz: Revolución Diamantina” — Gustavo Dudamel, conductor, Los Angeles Philharmonic), Best Classical Compendium (Ortiz: Revolución Diamantina — Gustavo Dudamel, conductor;...
Gabriela Ortiz (CRF 2009) was recently nominated for the BBC’s 2025 Music Magazine Choral Award for her Revolución Diamantina. Learn more about the award here. Ortiz is also currently a year-long composer-in-residence at Carnegie Hall. On Thursday, April 10 at...
