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PEN America has announced their 2025 longlists; the following Civitellians have been nominated. Phillip Lopate (CRF 2011, Juror) is nominated for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay for My Affair with Art House Cinema (Columbia University Press). Victoria Chang (Incoming Writing Fellow 2026) is nominate for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award for her […]

We are pleased to announce the inauguration of the Tyburn Foundation Affiliated Fellowship. Each year, the Tyburn Foundation, based in Umbria, will sponsor one or two African artists for a six-week residency. Civitella will be hosting Driaan Claassen (South Africa) in 2025, and Khadija Jayi (Morocco) and Option Dzikamai Nyahunzvi (Zimbabwe) in 2026. Alongside the […]

Gabriela Ortiz (CRF 2009) won the 2025 Grammy for Best Orchestral Performance (“Ortiz: Revolución Diamantina” — Gustavo Dudamel, conductor, Los Angeles Philharmonic), Best Classical Compendium (Ortiz: Revolución Diamantina — Gustavo Dudamel, conductor; Dmitriy Lipay, producer), and Best Contemporary Classical Composition (Ortiz: Revolución Diamantina — Gabriela Ortiz, composer; Gustavo Dudamel, Los Angeles Philharmonic & Los Angeles Master Chorale). Civitella […]