“I left with such faith and optimism in my own work and the collective work we are all undertaking to center beauty in the ugliness, to find meaning in the seemingly meaningless hurtling of time, to find patterns and historic recurrence in chaos. To live, in...
Three Civitellians are featured in the 13th Taipei Biennal, titled “Small World.” Algerian/French visual artist Massinissa Selmani (CRF 2021) will have paper, sculptural, and animated work featured in the Biennal. Palestinian visual artist and filmmaker Jumana Manna...
Three Civitellian composers’ work will be performed by Mivos Quartet on November 22nd at 7:30PM as part of the 2023 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in the UK. Israeli composer Sivan Eldar’s (CRF 2021) “Solicitations” transforms words and physicality into a...
Six Civitellians are included in the 2024 Grammy nominations– congratulations to all! Fred Hersch (DG 2013) & Esperanza Spalding’s (CRF 2018) “But Not For Me” is nominated for Best Jazz Performance. Cécile McLorin Salvant’s (Incoming Music Fellow) “Mélusine”...
Ishion Hutchinson’s (CRF 2023) book-length poem “School of Instructions” was included in the Guardian’s review roundup of the best recent poetry. Rebecca Tamás wrote: “This visionary work of memory, elegy and loss captures the experiences of West Indian soldiers who...
The Poetry Society of America will feature Civitellians in two upcoming readings at their Brooklyn office. Ukrainian-American poet and translator Ilya Kaminsky (Incoming Writing Fellow 2025) will read with Deborah Landau at 7PM on November 16th. Click here for more...
