Emma Amos’ (CRF 2013) retrospective exhibition “Color Odyssey” is on show at the Georgia Museum of Art from Saturday, Jan 30, 2021 – Sunday, Apr 25, 2021. “She is best known for her bold and colorful mixed-media paintings that create...
The NEA has announced their 2021 Winter Awards. Among those awarded is Threa Almontaser (Incoming Writing Fellow 2021) in Creative Writing. Threa Almontaser is a Yemeni American writer, translator, and multimedia artist from New York City. She is the author of The...
Black Art: In the Absence of Light, directed by Sam Pollard, debuts on February 9th at 9pm on HBO. The film chronicles the long history of African-American artists and was inspired by the 1976 exhibition “Two Centuries of Black American Art.” The film features artists...
Wadada Leo Smith (CRF 2003) and Tomeka Reid (Incoming Music Fellow 2022) were named 2021 United States Artists Fellows in Music while Alexander Chee (CRF 2011) and Ocean Vuong (CRF 2016) were awarded in Writing. USA Fellowships are annual, unrestricted awards that...
“Little Music” by Ishion Hutchinson (Incoming Writing Fellow 2022) has been published in Harper’s Magazine. “What a lot of little music can do?/The blind farmer Daylights in his cabbage/row, going crouched down between leafy skulls,/knows. He...
