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The Year in Review: 2018
CAF had a busy year in 2018. We welcomed social media expert Karen Bowman to our team to manage our Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. We hosted the first Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture, where feminist scholar Carol. J. Adams, author of the groundbreaking The Sexual Politics of Meat, gave a talk entitled “Animal Ethics and Contemporary Politics” at North Carolina State University, where Tom had talked for 34 years. You can watch it in full here and a brief overview here. Memories of Tom Regan were present at the fourth Minding Animals Conference in January in Mexico City. There, organized by CAF board member Kim Stallwood, a panel of distinguished academics—Peter Singer, Lori Gruen, Dale Jamieson, J. Baird Callicott, Mylan Engel Jr., Margo DeMello, and Alejandro Herrera—presented thoughts on Tom’s work and life, which was recorded and is available on YouTube. Later in the year, an electronic edition of the peer-reviewed journal Between the Species was dedicated to Tom Regan, with articles by board member Mylan Engel and CAF grantee Nathan Nobis. In addition, Tom’s pamphlet The Philosophy of Animal Rights was translated into Bangla.
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In April, we announced our 2018 grantees. Among the highlights of our grantees’ work: Donald Vincent, a 2018 grantee, released his album Vegan Paradise. The album’s cover art was created by Jane O’Hara, a 2017 grantee. Patricia Denys, a 2018 grantee, co-published the new magazine Animal Culture. The most recent issue features Jo-Anne McArthur, a CAF board member. Gal Nissim, a 2017 grantee, presented her project The Synanthrope Preserve in New York City. Michael Harren, a 2016 grantee, published The Animal Book, a record of his artist-in-residency at a farmed animal sanctuary. Radhika Subramaniam, a 2018 grantee, and Kim Stallwood both contributed chapters to the book Animal Biography: Re-framing Animal Lives. Amy Jones and Paul Healey, 2018 grantees, created a gallery of free-to-use images they photographed from around the world. Linda Brant, a 2015 and 2016 grantee, completed the monument To Animals We Do Not Mourn in Hartsdale Pet Cemetery. We also supported the 2018 Compassion Arts Festival, in which three of our grantees were featured. The brief video below celebrates the achievements of some of CAF’s grantees and associates in 2018. -
Tree Time: An Interview with Interdisciplinary Artist Lisa Hirmer
Lisa Hirmer is an interdisciplinary artist based in Guelph, Ontario, whose practice spans visual media, social practice, performance, art-based research and occasionally writing. She is primarily concerned with collective relationships, in communities and public spaces as well as within more-than-human ecologies.
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Donald Vincent & Jane O’Hara on Vegan Paradise
Culture and Animals Foundation 2018 grantee Donald Vincent a.k.a. Mr. Hip is a spoken word poet and hip-hop musician based in Los Angeles. He began recording his latest project, entitled Vegan Paradise this year, which was funded partially by his CAF grant.
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The Year in Review: 2017
CAF’s year began sadly, with the death in February of Tom Regan, our co-founder, at the age of 78. The tributes were many and well-deserved. Among them, were Robert Leonard’s video of Tom’s words and writings; Rainer Ebert’s essay comparing the animal advocacy efforts of Gandhi and Regan; and Ana Cristina Ramirez’s reflection (in Spanish). In April, we gave grants to six scholars and artists as diverse as an Israeli “scienartist” and a dissident academic researching dogs in Turkey. We welcomed two new board members—Jo-Anne McArthur and Kim Stallwood, and revamped our website. We also launched CAF on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube, and repurposed our presence on Guidestar/Candid. In October, CAF collaborated with Compassion Arts for the Compassion Arts & Culture and Animals Festival at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater at Symphony Space in New York City. The Festival was preceded and accompanied by a pop-up art show entitled “Beasts of Burden,” curated by CAF grantee Jane O’Hara. Other CAF grantees who performed or presented at the Festival included: Ayten Alkan, Michael Harren, Jo-Anne McArthur, Ellie Sarty, Jasmin Singer, and Mariann Sullivan. CAF board members Martin Rowe and Mia MacDonald, and CAF grantee Marisa Miller Wolfson, were em-cees. CAF co-founder and board member Nancy Regan was also in attendance. CAF grantee Cyrus Mejia’s painting was used for the program cover. Future grantees who performed at the festival were Donald Vincent (2019) and Radhika Subramaniam (2019). A video of photos from the festival can be found here.
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