Esperanza Spalding (CRF 2018) and Wayne Shorter have been collaborating for years on Shorter’s dream opera, “Iphigenia,” an update of the ancient Greek myth.”Iphigenia, eight years in the making and decades in the dreaming, will begin a run of performances...
Her first major solo museum show since 2019, Saya Woolfalk’s (CRF 2018) Field Notes from the Empathic Universe is now open to the public at the Newark Museum of Art. The show will be available until September 2022. “Saya Woolfalk: Field Notes from the...
A recent article in the Guardian asked five Nigerian writers to reflect on the state of Nigeria and their connection to their home country. Abubakar Adam Ibrahim (CRF 2015), Noo Saro-Wiwa (CRF 2021), and Chika Unigwe (CRF 2008, Juror) were three of the five writers...
Emily Van Kley’s (CRF 2018) second book, Arrhythmia will be published in January 2022 by Persea Books. For the occasion, Van Kley collaborated with local artists and musicians to make an aerial + poetry trailer, featuring one of the poems from the...
“Emma Amos: Color Odyssey,” a survey show of Emma Amos’ (CRF 2013) prolific career, organized by the Georgia Museum of Art and now on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, was recently reviewed in the New York Times. “Amos’s work is rigorous...
