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Sue Coe Is Awarded the 2022 Nancy Regan Arts Prize
The Culture & Animals Foundation (CAF) is delighted to announce that artist and activist Sue Coe has been awarded the 2022 Nancy Regan Arts Prize for her decades-long work on behalf of animal rights. For videos of her talking about her work, with CAF board member Kim Stallwood, click here.
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For Sue, the Arts Prize reminds of her long relationship with CAF, which in 1994 at its International Compassionate Living Festival awarded Sue Coe the Outstanding National Activist Award. “It was shocking,” she remembers. “It was stunning, and such a beautiful gift. And now this gift: it’s a bookend to forty years of work.” -
Kat Lyons’ Surreal Take on Animal Farming
Thirty-year-old Kentucky-born artist Kat Lyons caused a sensation in London earlier this year with a sold-out exhibition of her visceral and surreal paintings of animals’ bodies. As profiled in artnet.com, Kat says, “I’m interested in how we relate to animals as both physical and symbolic capital and how those relationships shape their world.”
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The Year in Review: 2021
In October 2021, CAF mourned the death of our co-founder Nancy Regan, who had done so much for CAF over its 35-year history. On her departure from the board in 2020, the remaining members of the board agreed to establish an arts prize in her honor—and so it was that in April 2021 we announced that the inaugural winner of the Nancy Regan Arts Prize was Joan Chan Wing Yan. That same month we gave out an unprecedented 17 grants to researchers and activists from all over the world, in response to a record number of applications: 186 of them, from 53 countries.
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Although we were unable to welcome a Tom Regan Visiting Research fellow at North Carolina State University, we were able to host the Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture, in which Black vegan scholar and CAF advisory board member Syl Ko presented “Re-centering the Human” in collaboration with the Rev. Christopher Carter of the University of San Diego. -
Syl Ko Delivers the 2021 Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture; Christopher Carter Responds
On November 18, independent scholar and philosopher Syl Ko delivered the 2021 Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture, which was postponed from 2020.
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Bernard (Bernie) Rollin: 1943–2021
CAF mourns the loss of philosopher and animal advocate Bernard Rollin.
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Nancy Regan: 1938–2021
The Culture & Animals Foundation mourns the passing of its co-founder, Nancy Regan, in Raleigh, North Carolina on Wednesday October 20, aged 83. You can read her obituary in the Raleigh News & Observer, where you can post reflections on her legacy. The CAF board’s reflections are below.
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Marisa Miller Wolfson: Ten Years of Vegucation
September 10, 2021 saw the tenth anniversary of the release of the documentary film Vegucated—offering an occasion to talk to its creator Marisa Miller Wolfson, a two-time grantee (2009, 2011), on what she’s been up to since. Columbia University Navab Fellow and CAF intern Makenna Cherry reports.
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From Spirits to Flesh: An Interview with Liz Marshall
In August 2021, CAF associate and Columbia University Navab Fellow Mary Qiu interviewed acclaimed filmmaker and 2011 grantee Liz Marshall on her inspirations, and the impacts and implications of her award-winning films The Ghosts in Our Machine and Meat the Future. Here is Mary’s report.
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A Vision Beyond Hope: Our Hen House
In August 2021, CAF associate and Columbia University Navab Fellow Mary Qiu interviewed via Zoom Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan, the founders of the podcast Our Hen House, a three-time CAF grant recipient, to celebrate its 600th episode. CAF associate and Columbia College Navab Fellow Makenna Cherry listened in.
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First Annual Nancy Regan Arts Prize Winner
The Board of the Culture & Animals Foundation (CAF) is delighted to announce that Hong Kong–based graphic artist Joan Chan Wing Yan has been awarded the first annual Nancy Regan Arts Prize.
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