Cameroonian visual artist Justine Gaga (CRF 2023) is a multiform artist whose work focuses on themes of loneliness, exile, immigration, as well as psychological fences and borders. In a recent interview with Program Assistant Greta Caseti, Gaga discussed the role of...
Jessie Montgomery (CRF 2023) received the 2024 GRAMMY for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for “Rounds,” performed by pianist Awadagin Pratt and the A Far Cry chamber orchestra on the album “Stillpoint.” Congratulations, Jessie! On her...
The aim of the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize is both to celebrate the best of new short fiction and to give winners the most visibility possible for their writing. That’s why Desperate Literature has teamed up with fourteen different literary and artistic...
South African artist Zanele Muholi (CRF 2012) has a new exhibition, Eye Me, on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art through August 11, 2024. The exhibition brings together over 100 photographs from the past twenty two years, alongside paintings, sculpture...
Hassan Taha’s (CRF 2023) new piece Am Ufer der Aare (On the banks  of the Aare), for 8 horns and alphorn, will be performed on Friday, January 26th, 2024, at 7:30 p.m. in the Bern Conservatory/Switzerland. “The Syrian composer Hassan Taha, an alumnus of the HKB...
