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Marta Bogdanska: What If the Animals Always Fought Back?
Polish multimedia artist and Marta Bogdanska received a 2023 CAF grant for “Vive La Résistance,” a project of art, films, and audio pieces on animal agency and subversion. This work…
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Two New Books from CAF Grantees
Congratulations to CAF grantees Isabella La Rocca Gonzalez (2014) and Nadja Lubiw-Hazard (2023) for the publication in December 2024 of their two books!
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CAF Begins Its Oral History Project
CAF is committed to ensuring the knowledge and experience of animal and vegan advocates are not lost. To that end, we’ve begun a year-long oral history project to gather the…
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Keane Southard on Completing Requiem for Animals
Requiem for Animals, a piece written by composer Keane Southard (2024) for a choir of sopranos, altos, tenors, and bases, and string orchestra, was commissioned by…
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The People vs. Nature
An Interview with Kevin Augustine Martin Rowe, ED of the Culture & Animals Foundation, talked with CAF 2024 grantee Kevin Augustine of Lone Wolf Tribe about his play…
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J. M. Coetzee’s “The Lives of Animals”: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Its Publication
On the occasion of the awarding of novelist J. M. Coetzee with the 2024 Nancy Regan Arts Prize, CAF convened a webinar with three leading scholars to discuss Coetzee’s…
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The View From the Bridge: A Recollection of a Friendship
Martin Rowe, CAF’s Executive Director, writes on his and CAF’s three-decades long connection with author Carol J. Adams. A video accompanying this article can be found at the jump.…
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J. M. Coetzee is the 2024 Nancy Regan Arts Prize Awardee
The Culture & Animals Foundation is pleased to announce that J. M. Coetzee, the South African-born novelist, multiple Booker Prize winner, and recipient of the 2003…
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Meet the 2024 Regan Research Fellow Sarah Scott
In addition to Kaitlyn Kitchen, CAF and NSCU Libraries have chosen as a 2024 Research Fellow Sarah Scott, a professor of philosophy at Manhattan College who is…
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Meet the 2024 Regan Research Fellow Kaitlyn Kitchen
In addition to Sarah Scott, CAF and NCSU have chosen Kaitlyn Kitchen as a 2024 Regan Research Fellow. Kaitlyn is a rising senior at Appalachian State…
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Two Regan Research Fellows Announced for 2024
The Culture & Animals Foundation and NCSU Libraries have awarded 2024 Tom Regan Visiting Research Fellowships to Kaitlyn Kitchen (left), a rising senior at…
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The 2024 Tom Regan Memorial Lecture
The seventh annual Tom Regan Lecture was delivered on April 15, 2024 by Dinesh Wadiwel (above left, with Lori Gruen), Associate Professor in human rights and socio-legal studies in…
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Empty Cages by Tom Regan Now Available as an Audiobook
To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Empty Cages, CAF has produced an audiobook of Tom’s popular version of The Case for Animal Rights (which is…
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CAF at the Animal & Vegan Advocacy Summit
In May, CAF hosted a panel on the arts and advocacy at the Animal & Vegan Advocacy Summit in Alexandria, Virginia.
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Meet CAF’s 2024 Grantees
CAF is pleased to announce our 2024 grantees. They are a composer, a singer, a performance artist,…
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Nomination Period Open for the 2024 Nancy Regan Arts Prize
The nomination period for the 2024 Nancy Regan Arts Prize is now open. The deadline for submission is May 31st, 2024. Send a letter and a link to…
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The Sixth Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture
The sixth annual Tom Regan Lecture will be delivered by Dinesh Wadiwel (left, with Lori Gruen), Associate Professor in human rights and socio-legal studies in the School of Social and…
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Apply for the 2024 Tom Regan Research Fellowship
Now’s your chance to apply to research in one of the world’s most extensive collections of animal advocacy materials, encompassing almost two hundred years of work on behalf…
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Why Didn’t I Receive a Grant?
We thought it might be helpful to explain our process a little more to help grant applicants increase their chances of success.
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Flaco and Happy
CAF’s Executive Director Martin Rowe reflects on the death of Flaco the owl. Photo: Flaco Memorial in Central Park, February 2023. Courtesy of Amy Trakinski
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In Memory of Steven Wise
CAF’s Executive Director Martin Rowe remembers Steven Wise, the founder of the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP), who died on February 15, 2024. (You can read remembrances of Steven…
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Read Our 2023 Report
It’s been a banner year at CAF. Read our 2023 Report on the achievements of our grantees and associates.
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In Memory of Karen Davis
CAF’s Executive Director Martin Rowe remembers Karen Davis, the founder of United Poultry Concerns, who died on November 4, 2023. (You can also read her obituary in the…
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Abandon Every Hope: A Discussion with Hayley Singer
In Spring 2023, Australian Hayley Singer, a 2020 CAF grantee, published Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead (Upswell Publishing), a “thanatography” for the times we’re living in….
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The 2023 Tom Regan Memorial Lecture
Cheryl Abbate, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, presented the 2023 Tom Regan Memorial Lecture on “The Philosophy of Animal Rights: A Way…
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Her Blue Body
Kittie Mae Morris received a CAF grant for “BLUE.,” an interdisciplinary dance piece that brings awareness to dolphin endangerment. Tymesha-Elizabeth Kindell and Gauri Kasarla, 2023 CAF…
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Archives and Counterarchives
Whitney Barlow Robles, the 2023 Tom Regan Research Fellow, reflects on her time in the Regan Archives at North Carolina State University Libraries.
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The Case for Animal Rights Audiobook Now Available
To celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Tom Regan’s The Case for Animal Rights, CAF has produced an audiobook version of the philosophical classic.
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Dale Jamieson on His Friendship with Tom and Nancy Regan
In 2016, the CAF board invited friends, colleagues, and associates of Tom and Nancy Regan to reflect on the then thirty-year legacy of CAF’s work. Fellow philosopher and advisory…
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Picturing Pigs: Making the Invisible Visible
When photographers Mary Shannon Johnstone and Jane M Casteline received a grant for “Picturing Pigs,” they couldn’t have imagined the obstructions—both literal and metaphorical—they’d face. Martin Rowe…
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Sondra Jackson-Opoku: Manatees and Marginalized Communities
Sandra Jackson-Opoku received a grant from the Culture & Animals Foundation to research and write Ellie Mac, Please Come Back!—a children’s book on saving the manatees. Tymesha-Elizabeth…
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Cheryl Abbate Is the 2023 Tom Regan Memorial Lecturer
On October 5, 2023 at Harvard Law School, Cheryl Abbate, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, will present the sixth Annual Tom Regan…
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Entangled: Multispecies Lives, Justice, and Narratives
Gauri Kasarla, a 2023 Navab Fellow at Columbia University, interviews 2020 CAF grantee Nathaniel Otjen on his research project and book, “Entangled Lives: Multispecies Selves, Justice, and…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Remembering Siobhan O’Sullivan
Along with many, the Culture & Animals Foundation mourns the passing of Siobhan O’Sullivan, founder of the wonderful podcast Knowing Animals, for which she received a…
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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…
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CAF Welcomes Its 2023 Navab Fellows
We’re pleased to announce that Tymesha-Elizabeth Kindell from Atlanta and Gauri Kasarla (left) from Florida are our 2023 Navab Fellows.
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Street Artist and CAF Grantee Praxis vgz Hosts Pop-Up Exhibition
Come see CAF grantee Praxis vgz‘s one-night-only pop up show of his street art in Manhattan on May 26th. This month, Praxis has been calling…
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CAF Announces Its 2023 Grants
We at the Culture & Animals Foundation are delighted to announce our 2023 grantees. The image represents only a few of the folks who’ve received a grant for their…
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Kim Stallwood to Speak at the British Library
CAF board member Kim Stallwood will speak on “The Fight for Animal Rights” at the British Library in London on Tuesday May 16. He will be…
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CAF Research Fellow Kat Poje to Speak on Her Study at NCSU
Harvard historian of science Kat Poje (left), a 2022 Regan Research Fellow at North Carolina State University Libraries Animal Rights Archive, will lecture on “Humane Societies, Alternatives to Euthanasia, and Animal Experimentation…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Martin’s Act at 200 Audio Documentary Complete
CAF’s six-part audio documentary on the enactment and legacy of the Cruel Treatment of Cattle Act, sponsored by Richard “Humanity Dick” Martin, and passed into law two…
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Harvard Scholar Rebecca Shen Talks about Her Residency at VINE Sanctuary
In 2022, CAF gave a grant to VINE Sanctuary in Vermont to enable a scholar to set up residence at VINE over the summer and conduct research. VINE…
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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…
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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…
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Both 2022 Regan Memorial Lectures Now Online
The second 2022 Tom Regan Memorial Lecture by Charlotte Blattner (left) on “Transitional Justice and Animal Rights“, with response from
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The Creative Lives of Animals: An Interview with Carol Gigliotti
The Creative Animal 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…
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Filmmaker Jusep Moreno on When Pigs Escape
When Pigs Escape, a documentary film by Jusep Moreno, a 2022 CAF grantee, will be screened at locations across the U.K. on Saturday, November 19th. A pre-recorded Q&A will…
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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 undertafshenking…
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Read Our Latest Newsletter
Our October 2022 newsletter is out, full of information. We have updates on the extraordinary work of our grantees; Kat Poje’s article on researching the animal advocacy…
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Regan Fellow Kat Poje Reflects on Her Research in the Animal Rights Archives
Organizing My Ignorance 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…
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Charlotte Blattner to Give Tom Regan Memorial Lecture. Will Kymlicka to Respond.
CAF is delighted to announce that Charlotte Blattner (left), Senior Lecturer and Researcher, Faculty of Law, University of Berne, Switzerland, will give the
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Episode 3 of Martin’s Act at 200 Audio Documentary Available
Episode 3 of CAF’s ongoing audio documentary on two hundred years of animal advocacy following 1822’s “Cruel Treatment of Cattle Act,” sponsored by the Irishman
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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Kim Stallwood and Martin Rowe Write Op-Ed on Martin’s Act for Sentient Media
Board member Kim Stallwood and Martin Rowe, executive director of CAF, have written an opinion piece for Sentient Media on the complicated legacy of Martin’s Act, a.k.a. The…
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Nancy Regan Memorial Recording Available
On July 11, 2022, friends of Nancy Regan gathered online for a memorial to CAF’s co-founder, who died in 2021. You can listen to an audio recording of the…
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CAF Announces Launch of Martin’s Act at 200 Audio Documentary
To celebrate the passage of the Cruel Treatment of Cattle Act, sponsored by Richard “Humanity Dick” Martin, and signed into U.K. law on July 22, 1822, CAF has produced…
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CAF Launches chart2050
The Martin’s Act at 200 audio documentary examines the past to understand the present state of animal advocacy, and imagine its future. As we look forward to…
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CAF Sponsors A-Law Conference on Martin’s Act
CAF is proud to be a sponsor of AnimalLaw: Visions for the Future Conference, hosted by the U.K. Centre for Animal Law. Over the course of…
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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…
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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…
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Helping Artists and Animals in Ukraine
The war in Ukraine is not just devastating for the Ukrainian people, but also their animals. It has threatened the country’s rich cultural heritage. However, help is at hand….
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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…
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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. (more…)
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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
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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…
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The Year in Review: 2020
The year 2020 proved challenging for CAF, as it did for so many around the world as the COVID-19 pandemic raged. We were forced to cancel the Regan Research…
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Gal Nissim Takes Your Time
When you interact with “ScienArtist” Gal Nissim’s works, whether by listening to her Synanthrope Preserve rat tour, “The First to Cross,” in Tompkins…
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Donald Vincent Is Working on Finding the New Normal
As an English professor, freelance marketer, and copywriter, and as he works on rap and poetry projects or the 2020 Compassion Arts Festival, 2018 grantee
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Colleen Plumb Constantly Discovers
When in 2009 Colleen Plumb stood outside Chicago’s United Center, waiting for the elephants to come out, she didn’t know what to expect. All she knew at that…
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Yuan-Chih Sets the Stage
Whereas gradual progress is occurring toward legal and other rights for animals across the West, the same cannot be said in East Asia. Yuan-Chih Lung…
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The City and the Animal: An Interview with Ayten Alkan
Ayten Alkan received a CAF grant in 2017 to continue her academic research into stray animals and the city.
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The Year in Review: 2019
In 2019, CAF inaugurated the first Tom Regan Visiting Research Fellowship at the NC State University Libraries, with Rachel Robison-Greene, a philosopher from Utah State University, studying…
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Meet an Advisory Board Member—Peter Singer: Giving Equal Consideration to All Beings
Peter Singer is a moral philosopher best known for his book Animal Liberation in which he argues for consideration of the interests of…
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Meet an Advisory Board Member—Radhika Subramaniam: Re-Articulating an Interspecies Relationship
Radhika Subramaniam is a curator and writer with an interdisciplinary practice that deploys such platforms as exhibitions, texts, and public art interventions as conscious forms…
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Meet an Advisory Board Member—Syl Ko: Acknowledging the Animality Narrative
Syl Ko is an independent researcher known for bringing race to the forefront of the movement to end animal abuse. Her writing challenges species-centric terminology…
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Bearing Witness to the Slaughtering of Pigs
Two-time CAF grantees (2018-19), Amy Jones and Paul Healey received a joint grant to curate a digital free-to-use images of animals while traveling with the…
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Meet an Advisory Board Member—Eva Meijer: When Animals Speak
Eva Meijer is a singer-songwriter, novelist, and professor of animal philosophy. She became involved in animal rights as a child, having close relationships with family pets….
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Meet an Advisory Board Member: Dale Jamieson: Imagining a Better World
Dale Jamieson is Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy, an affiliated professor of law, director of the Animals Studies Initiative, and the founding director of the
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Linda Brant—Monument for the Unmourned
On May 18, 2019, artist Linda Brant, unveiled a monument dedicated to farmed animals at the Hartsdale Pet Cemetery in Hartsdale,…
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Isa Leshko’s Allowed to Grow Old
Isa Leshko is an American fine art photographer whose work focuses on animal rights, mortality, and aging. Her collection Allowed to…
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Meet an Advisory Board Member—J. M. Coetzee: And the Animals
J. M. Coetzee is an internationally acclaimed novelist, essayist, linguist, and translator, born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Moving Animals Launches Website
Paul Healey and Amy Jones received a joint grant from Culture & Animals Foundation in 2018 to curate an archive of free-to-use images of animals,…
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Meet an Advisory Board Member—Sebastiano Cossia Castiglioni: Working with Nature
Sebastiano Cossia Castiglioni is the owner and founder of Querciabella, a pioneering winery based in Tuscany, Italy. Querciabella first went organic in 1988, a decision that eventually led…
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Meet an Advisory Board Member—Steve Baker: After the Ark
Steve Baker is Emeritus Professor of Art History at the University of Central Lancashire in England. Since the 1990s, he’s worked as an artist and academic…
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Meet an Advisory Board Member—Carol J. Adams: Following the Thread
Carol J. Adams is the author of numerous books on the intersections between meat eating and misogyny, including the pioneering and deeply influential The Sexual Politics of Meat: A…
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Spreading the Culture of Animals and Animal Culture
Patricia Denys and Mary Holmes talk about their new online magazine The global mainstream media does not generally cover the most critical topics concerning animal advocacy.
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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,
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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…
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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…
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Tom Regan Cited in Historic Court Ruling
In an historic ruling today, a judge of the New York Court of Appeals issued a decision that all three intermediate appellate courts of New York that had ruled…
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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…
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