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CAF Welcomes Mariana Arellano Corbello and Carol Kline to the Board
CAF is delighted to welcome Mariana Arellano Corbello (left) and Carol Kline to the Board of Directors, as we say a heartfelt “thank you” to Mylan Engel and Jo-Anne McArthur.
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My Grandfather’s Voice
CAF Associate Brooke Rucker reflects on listening to her grandfather, Tom Regan, in an interview from 2001, produced for the Recording Animal Advocacy Oral History Project.
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Leslie Ruckman Is For the Birds
CAF Associate Brooke Rucker talks to designer and researcher Leslie Ruckman (left), who with scientist and artist and CAF grantee Gal Nissim, produced “Swan Song” (2021) and “For the Birds: An Edible Art Workshop” (2022), both presented at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, New York. You can watch the video here.
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The Creative Lives of Animals: An Interview with Carol Gigliotti
The Creative Animal
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An Interview with Carol Gigliotti
In 1988, artist and scholar Carol Gigliotti presented a body of work called “The Dante Series” to Tom and Nancy Regan of the Culture & Animals Foundation. Thirty-four years afterwards, we reached out to Carol, to talk about her work then and her new book, The Creative Lives of Animals, published by NYU Press. Artist and Navab scholar Victoria Reshetnikov talked to Carol Gigliotti about her life as an artist and scholar, the Regans, and her new book. (You can watch a video presentation of “The Dante Series” here.) -
Filmmaker Jusep Moreno on When Pigs Escape
When Pigs Escape is a documentary film by Jusep Moreno, a 2022 CAF grantee.
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Individualism, Community, and Landscape at VINE Sanctuary
In 2022, the Culture & Animals Foundation provided a grant to VINE Sanctuary in Vermont to engage a scholar as an intern. Rebecca Shen, who is undertaking a master’s degree in landscape architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, was chosen. CAF Navab Fellow Victoria Reshetnikov sat down for an interview with Rebecca.
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Regan Fellow Kat Poje Reflects on Her Research in the Animal Rights Archives
Organizing My Ignorance
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In the print version of her first Reith Lecture, the late Hilary Mantel wrote “history is not the past—it is the method we have evolved of organising our ignorance of the past.”[1] This line has been running through my mind as I’ve sat in coffee shops and libraries the last few weeks, trying to distill my experience of working in NCSU’s archives this August. Partly so I can write this report you are now reading, partly so I can understand for myself what precisely happened to my research project during the month I sat surrounded by so many archival boxes. -
Sherry Colb
CAF is sorry to hear of the untimely death of Sherry F. Colb, who was the 2019 Tom Regan Memorial Lecturer. We extend our deepest sympathies to her husband, and fellow legal scholar and animal advocate, Michael Dorf, and their two daughters, Meena and Amelia. Michael has written an appreciation of Sherry’s life and scholarship. Sherry was Professor of Law at Cornell University Law School, where she taught courses in animal rights, evidence, and criminal procedure. She published articles in a variety of law reviews and wrote several books, including Beating Hearts: Abortion and Animal Rights; Mind If I Order the Cheeseburger?: And Other Questions People Ask Vegans; and When Sex Counts: Making Babies and Making Law.
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Meet 2013 CAF Grantee Claude Jones (Video)
New Zealand–born collagist and ceramist, and 2013 CAF grantee, Claude Jones talks with CAF Navab Fellow Victoria Reshetnikov about how she communicates her veganism through art, why she decided to work in ceramics, and how she tries to combat gun violence and violence toward animals through her art. You can watch the video here.
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Meet CAF 2022 Grantee Suzy González (Video)
In a video interview, Suzy González—Texas-based artist, curator, writer, and zinester, and 2022 CAF grantee—talks with CAF Navab Fellow Victoria Reshetnikov about her artistic vision, her commitment to food sovereignty and veganism, her love of public art, why she makes zines, and her animations of leaders in the animal advocacy movement.
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