The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has named the 2021 recipients and finalists of its NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship program in the disciplines of Fiction, Folk/Traditional Arts, Interdisciplinary Work, Painting, and Video/Film. Jennifer Coates (CRF 2019) was...
Join us Thursday, July 15th at the Castle for presentations by current Fellows, Shadi Harouni & Eric Van Hove. Shadi Harouni, Fellow (Visual Arts, Iran/USA)Shadi Harouni is a visual artist based in New York. Harouni’s practice ranges from architectural...
Three new poems by Diane Mehta (Incoming Writing Fellow 2021) were published by Art/Light Magazine on July 12th, 2021. “Rock Garden in the Back Yard with a Ghost Tree and an Evergreen,” “Stay,” and “Disappearing Act” can be read in full here. From the first stanza of...
In a recent post from The Tide, a Nigerian daily newspaper, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim (CRF 2015), A. Igoni Barrett (CRF 2018), and Elnathan John (CRF 2015) were named in a list of top five Nigerian novelists. Learn more about these authors here. “Abubakar Adam...
Monica Youn (CRF 2013) and Jane Hirshfield (DG 2013), who were in residence together at Civitella, found themselves together once more at Yaddo, an artists’ community in Saratoga Springs, New York. The Civitella alumnae sent their love and reminisced about their...
A comprehensive survey of large-scale works by Dawn Clements (CRF 2012), who passed away in 2018, is currently on display at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City. Moderated by Angela Dufresne (CRF 2018), there will be two digital talks on the show and Clement’s work...
