PEN America Open Book Award Finalists

PEN America Open Book Award Finalists

PEN America has just announced the finalists for their Open Book Award, given for an exceptional book-length work of any literary genre by an author of color. The winning author will be a Civitella Fellow in 2024. Last year’s winner, Divya Victor, will be at the...
Portia Munson Show at the Museum of Sex

Portia Munson Show at the Museum of Sex

“The Pink Bedroom,” open now through July 26th 2023, is the first presentation of Portia Munson’s (CRF 2019) work at The Museum of Sex; Senior Program Associate Hope Campbell Gustafson attended the opening a few weeks ago. Through her prescient drawings,...
Délio Jasse on recognizing Black History Month in Italy

Délio Jasse on recognizing Black History Month in Italy

Born in Luanda, Angola and based in Milan, visual artist Délio Jasse (CRF 2022) explores history and memory by interweaving found photographs and documents with his own artistic processes and annotations. Délio spoke with Program Assistant Greta Caseti on the...
Civitellians at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards

Civitellians at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards

The New York Youth Symphony was awarded this year’s Grammy for Best Orchestral Performance for their performance of work by Jessie Montgomery (Incoming Music Fellow 2023), among others. Works by Jessie and Tania León (CRF 2003) were among the productions by 2023...
Woman, Life, Freedom: Two Iranian Civitellians on Revolution

Woman, Life, Freedom: Two Iranian Civitellians on Revolution

In light of all that is going on in Iran, we reached out to a couple of our Iranian Fellows, Bahar Sabzevari (CRF 2021) and Yasmin Golshani (CRF 2005), to ask them about this historic moment and how it has affected their work.  What is your perspective on the...