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News & Features

  • 2022 Grantees Announced

    We have chosen 16 applicants from ten countries, working on diverse and exciting projects, for this year’s grantees. You can read about them and their projects

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  • Animals in Ukraine

    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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  • Kim Stallwood’s Archive Going to Tier im Recht

    CAF Board member and long-time animal rights activist Kim Stallwood has agreed to house the remainder of his considerable archive of historical artifacts on animal advocacy…

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  • A Significant Bequest to the Tom Regan Archive

    The historian Bernard Unti, until 2021 Senior Policy Advisor and Special Assistant to the President & CEO of The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS),…

    Scholarship, Tom Regan

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  • A New President and Vice-President & Treasurer at CAF

    The Culture & Animals Foundation is delighted to announce the election of Jill Howard Church (left) as CAF’s new President and Karen Regan as Vice-President & Treasurer.

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  • Martin Rowe

    CAF Announces a New Executive Director

    The board of the Culture & Animals Foundation (CAF) is pleased to announce the appointment of Martin Rowe as its Executive Director. The creation of this position reflects the…

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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, Fellowship, Grantees, Grants, Lecture, Prize

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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.

    Board, Event, Lecture, Tom Regan

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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…

    Grantees, Interview

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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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  • CAF Welcomes Its 2021 Navab Fellows

    CAF has partnered with the Navab Fellowship Program that connects Columbia undergraduate students with paid summer internships.

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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…

    Grantees, Interview

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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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  • Rachel Robison-Greene

    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…

    Meet an Advisory Board Member, Tom Regan

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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,…

    Grantees, Tom Regan

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  • ABE, ALPINE GOAT, AGE 21

    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…

    Grantees, Interview

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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…

    Meet an Advisory Board Member, Tom Regan

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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.

    Grantees, Interview

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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,

    Board, Grantees, Lecture, Social Media

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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…

    Exhibits, Grantees, Interview

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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…

    Festival, Grantees

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  • Nonhuman Rights Project

    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…

    Tom Regan

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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…

    Event, Exhibits, Festival, Grantees, Tom Regan

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