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The Politics of Eating Animals in India
CAF’s 2023 Navab Fellow Gauri Kasarla is an undergraduate student at Columbia University studying Art History and Visual Art. As an American with roots in Andhra Pradesh in south India, Gauri is interested in India’s social and political structure as well as the rising need for sustainability. She interviewed 2019 grantees Nirupama Sarma and Gautam Sonti about the challenges of making a film about veganism in India.
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Creating Antispeciesist Video Essays: An Interview with Just Wondering . . .
Gauri Kasarla is a 2023 CAF Navab Fellow from Columbia University studying Art History and Visual Art. She spoke with 2020 CAF grantees Just Wondering . . . , a multidisciplinary team of antispeciesist creatives, based in Romania.
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Wolves, Wildness, and the American Imagination: Patrick Fuery and Lauren Strohacker in Conversation
In this 30-minute video, CAF grantees cultural critic Patrick Fuery (2021) and ecopolitical artist Lauren Strohacker (2022) explore the psychological and physical space occupied by wolves in the American imagination and landscape, with 2023 CAF Navab Fellow Tymesha-Elizabeth Kindell.
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Jane O’Hara on the State of the Union for Animals
Jane O’Hara, a 2017 CAF grantee, recently completed her monumental State of the Union, a series of fifty portraits of depicting the situation for animals throughout the United States. In this video interview with 2023 Navab Fellow and fellow artist Gauri Kasarla, Jane talks about her distinctive artistic vision, the retro-postcard aesthetic she chose for the series, and her journey to becoming an animal rights artist.
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Protecting the Vultures of Nepal: An Interview with Namita Kandel
Gauri Kasarla is a 2023 Navab Fellow from Columbia University studying Art History and Visual Art. She spoke with 2023 CAF grantee Namita Kandel of The Jane Goodall Institute Nepal. The interview has been edited for length and clarity.
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Isa Leshko Is the 2023 Nancy Regan Arts Prize Awardee
CAF’s Board is delighted to announce that Isa Leshko has been chosen as the recipient of the 2023 Nancy Regan Arts Prize. Isa is the author of Allowed to Grow Old: Portraits of Elderly Animals from Farm Sanctuaries, the research for which she received a CAF grant in 2016. Watch a video essay about Isa Leshko’s extraordinary vision by animal studies scholar Laura Alvear Roa here.
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Whitney Barlow Robles Is the 2023 Tom Regan Research Fellow
CAF is delighted to announce that Whitney Barlow Robles has been chosen as the 2023 Tom Regan Research Fellow. Professor Robles has a Ph.D. in American Studies and an A.M. in History from Harvard University and a B.A. in American Studies (with a concentration in nature writing) from Yale University.
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What Nine Thousand Images Tells Me (So Far)
Joshua Russell, PhD, was, with Kat Poje, a 2022 Regan Research Fellow at North Carolina State University Libraries Animal Rights Archive. In this article, Joshua reflects on what he’s gleaned so far from the more than 9,000 images (!) he captured in the archives.
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Meet CAF Grantees Linda Ncube and Alfred Sihwa
In 2022, CAF grantee Jo-Anne McArthur, animal photojournalist and founder of We Animals Media, met with CAF grantees Linda Ncube (2020) and Alfred Sihwa (2022) in their native Zimbabwe. Jo-Anne learned about their efforts to educate local communities about animal care and animal rights. You can discover more about Linda and Alfred’s work by watching this short video and visiting their pages on our website.
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20 Ways to Think about Martin’s Act at 200: 1. Why 1822?
Why did Alex Lockwood and the Culture & Animals Foundation start an investigation of the history of animal advocacy with a single piece of legislation from a single political body? Read six reasons why here.
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