The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2021

The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2021

The New York Times announced their list of 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2021. Among those honored are Advisory Council member Christopher Cerrone (CRF 2012, Juror), and recently awarded and incoming Fellows Angélica Negrón and Gabriella Smith. Seth Colter Walls...
December Letter from the Director

December Letter from the Director

15 Decmeber 2021 Dear Civitellians, It is winter in Umbria now, my absolute favorite time of the year. The colder temperatures bring terrific visibility and the mountains topped by snow seem to go on forever and ever into the distance. The night stars are more visible...
PEN America Announces 2022 Literary Awards Longlists

PEN America Announces 2022 Literary Awards Longlists

Today PEN America announced the Longlists for its Literary Awards, spanning 11 awards and naming more than 100 writers and translators, celebrating 2021’s most extraordinary new voices and living legends of literature. Finalists for the PEN America Literary Awards...
Anita Thacher “Loose Corner” at Microscope Gallery

Anita Thacher “Loose Corner” at Microscope Gallery

Microscope Gallery in New York presents Loose Corner, the third solo exhibition at the gallery of works by the late Anita Thacher (CRF 2002). The show opens with a reception from 6-9PM on Thursday, December 16th, and will be up through January 29, 2022. “For the...
Paisley Rekdal on poem-a-day

Paisley Rekdal on poem-a-day

Paisley Rekdal’s (CRF 2017) poem “何日/What Day,” from her forthcoming book “West,” is featured on the Academy of American Poets’ poem-a-day series today. “West” connects the completion of the transcontinental railroad with the Chinese Exclusion Act,...
News from Kama Sokolnicka

News from Kama Sokolnicka

Kama Sokolnicka’s (CRF 2015) individual exhibition Blask (Glare) is up at the Contemporary Museum Wrocław in Poland through March 7th, 2022. “Kama Sokolnicka’s artistic strategy is conceptual in character and resembles film editing. The artist’s works are...