Recent Events with Past Sacatar Fellows

Past Sacatar Fellows are invited to share news of their latest activities by emailing a paragraph with all information (invitations and active links) to info[a]sacatar.org and/or by tagging @sacatarbrazil on their social media posts. Click on hyperlinks below for additional information. >>>>> (Clique aqui para Notícias de Ex-Residentes brasileiros) 

  • Victoria-Idongesit Udondian (Visual Arts / Nigeria > USA 2018) invites: How Can I Be Nobody: SCREENING + BOOK LAUNCH
    The Distinguished Visiting Scholars program, College of Arts and Sciences at the University at Buffalo (UB) and Smack Mellon, New York City is delighted to host the launch of Victoria-Idongesit Udondian’s monograph, How Can I Be Nobody (Hirmer Publishers, 2024), edited by Sylvester Ogbechie, Ph.D. The publication follows her 2022 solo exhibition in Smack Mellon’s main gallery space, in New York City, featuring a site-specific installation that combines woven textiles, sculptures, and sound.
    The event will take place as follows:
    Buffalo Event: Date: Wednesday, April 24th Time: 7:00 – 9:00 PM Location: Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center 341 Delaware Ave, Buffalo, NY 14202
    NYC Event: Date: Friday, April 26th Time: 6:30 PM Location: Smack Mellon 92 Plymouth St, Brooklyn, NY 11201
  • News from Faith Adiele (Literature / USA 2002 & 2010): Tender Headed, an essay about her experiences getting braided–and de-braided–in Nigeria, Morocco, and Essaouira, appears in Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature, Issue #10: Intimacy.
  • Basir Mahmood (Moving Images / Pakistan 2014) will be presenting an installation commissioned and produced by Fondazione In Between Art Film and made possible with financial support from the Mondriaan Fund at the Complesso dell’Ospedaletto in Venice on the occasion of La Biennale di Venezia 2024.
  • News from Faith Adiele (Literature / USA 2002 & 2010): Her newest books, Her Voice and Voice/Over , are now listed for pre-order at tamupress.com, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and many other online vendors.
  • Brad Fox (Literature / USA 2003) has just concluded his time at Still Residency Program in South Africa and is now enjoying an incredible homecoming. His latest book, “The Bathysphere Book,” was named an Editor’s Choice by The New York Times Book Review and ranked among the Best of 2023 by The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, The Financial Times, and The Globe & Mail. This year will witness the release of French, Italian, Korean, and Chinese editions. Brad was at Sacatar in 2003, alongside fellow writer Cheryl Strayed, whose successful book “Wild” was adapted into a movie starring actress Reese Witherspoon. Congratulations, Brad!
  • Sook Jin Jo (Multimedia / Korea 2001 & 2007) would like to invite you to the premiere of her 32 minute documentary “Narrow is the Way” about three art house chapels, which she designed and completed in Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador between 2018 and 2023. It focuses on her personal journey, her process and life behind the scenes during the project’s creation. Narration is in Korean with English subtitles.
    The film is showing as part of the KAFFY2023: Local Universe program and will be premiering Sunday, November 12, 1:30-3:30pm at Prime Produce, 424 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019. 
    To make a reservation, please go to Eventbrite. 
  • Katrina Coombs (Visual Arts / Jamaica 2023) would invite you to the opening of her solo exhibition
    “Just Breathe” at CreativSpace Gallery. Opening December 3, 2023 at 11am. Kingston, Jamaica.
  • Pieter Paul Pothoven (Visual Arts / Netherlands 2016 & 2018) would like to invite you to Refresh Amsterdam #2 War and Conflict, a group exhibition at the Amsterdam Museum and the International Institute of Social History.
  • Melanie Baker (USA 2003) invites for her group exhibition “Seminal: Masculinity in Contemporary Art” from October 13 – November 18, 2023 at Cristin Tierney Gallery NY. Join her on Friday, October 13th, from 6:00-8:00 PM for the opening reception of “Seminal.
  • Xavier Marrades (Moving Image / Catalunya 2017) is pleased to invite you to his multimedia solo exhibition “murmurations“ at La Gotika Gallery / Institut d’Estudis Ilerdencs in Lleida, Catalunya from October 6 – December 10, 2023.
  • Daniel V. Melim (Visual Arts / Portugal 2013) would like to invite you to his solo show “O Animal e As Roupas” at Monitor Gallery (Lisbon). Opening 6.October.2023, 6 – 9pm. Exhibition runs until 25.November.2023. As part of the Lisbon Art Weekend, on November 10th, we will perform “Lavagem Noturna – performance sonora a quatro vozes“. Within this exhibition, with four performers, the electrified sound will find voices with ancient resonance.
  • Arístides Hernández, ARES (Visual Arts / Cuba 2023) is pleased to invite you all to the opening of his solo exhibition “Mestizo” on Friday September 8th at 4PM at Galería 23 y 12, Avenida 23, Vedado, Havana, Cuba.
  • News from Carolyne Wright (Literature / USA 2018):
    Join her for three programs with poet, translator and teacher Dzvinia Orlowsky on July 19, 22 and 24, via the Johnson County Library System (Kansas).
    In the first program, Dzvinia will be joined by Carolyne Wright (July 19) for a one-hour discussion on form, urgency, and what moves us to write., from  6:30 – 7:30 p.m CST / 4:30 – 5:30 Pacific time.
    The second program with Jeff Friedman is now scheduled for Monday, July 24, from 6:30 – 7:30 p.m CST.
    The third program (July 22) is a two-hour generative workshop. Have your keyboards or your pen and paper handy, because the point of this workshop is to WRITE!
    All three programs will be held on the online platform Zoom. More info and registration here.
  • Jessica Rimondi (Visual Arts / Italy 2017) is pleased to invite you all to the opening of her group show Liminal Scapes, where you can see a preview of some selected works of my project ERBE DES ORTES, at Erstererster.de Gallery in Berlin on June 29 at 6pm. The exhibition is organised and supported by @amcha.de.
  • Mario Macilau (Photography / Mozambique 2014) would like to invite you to his solo show On Faith at Ed Cross Gallery – London, from 14 June to 5 August. He also shares with us this recent article in The Guardian about his show.
  • Sook Jin Jo (Visual Arts / Korea > USA 2001 & 2007) would like to inform the opening of her new sound installation Witness III, at the Franconia Sculpture Park in Shafer, Minnesota.
  • Ahmad Mahmoud (Film / Sudan 2018) would like to share an article on The Irish News about his life under the current situation in his native city Khartoum, Sudan.
  • News from Joseph Cavalieri (Visual Arts / USA 2011 & 2017): I have designed postcards that highlight twenty-four of my favorite stained glass works I have made since 2003. These works are hidden away with private collectors, so I decided to choose twenty-four, make a postcard for each and offer them for sale as a set. They include images from eight of my ‘Simpsons Series’, yes that is Maggie being reincarnated, four postcards from my collaboration with R. Crumb, and favorites like Jackie O, Isaac Hayes, Queen of England, Endora from Bewitched, Alice in Wonderland and my 2003 work ‘Two Nanny Goats.’
    These works are made by penning, printing and air-brushing enamel paints onto stained glass, firing them in a kiln at 1290 degrees Fahrenheit (700 degrees celsius) melting the paint permanently onto the surface, then soldering and setting the final panels into a wall hung light box.
    Thanks very much for supporting me and my art. Set of 24 for $24 including postage in the USA.
    To order: I accept Venmo, Paypal, and if you are in NYC cash. Simply look for Joseph Cavalieri when paying and please include your mailing address. {Discounts available on orders over quantity of ten}
  • Deborah Ross (Visual Arts / USA 2019) invites you to read her latest interview “The Daily Heller: Teaching Art That Expands Horizons”
  • Daniel Gwirtzman (Dance / USA 2003 & 2013) presents his rehearsal footage of e-Motion, a program-length dance in development, having its world premiere May 24-26 and June 2-4 everywhere online via live-stream, and at The Cherry Arts in Ithaca, NY. Co-presented by The Cherry Arts and Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company, the live-stream will be edited in real time from multiple cameras, designed to be seen on the screen. Tickets for e-Motion in person and via live-stream are available here. View anywhere in the world online!
    We are deep in production mode with expenses growing weekly and can greatly benefit from your support. Thanks to all of our contributors for keeping e-Motion in motion!
  • News from Faith Adiele (Literature / USA 2002 & 2010): regular DETOUR column is now monthly instead of weekly and her latest, “It’s the ‘Black Joy Parade’ for me.,” was featured in several US national newspapers, including the Miami Herald, Kansas City Star, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, News & Observer, The Sacramento Bee, and The Charlotte Observer. Her essay, “Teeth: A Family Portrait,” has been shortlisted for the CRAFT Creative Nonfiction Award, which will be judged by Ingrid Rojas Contreras, whose book was a National Book Award Finalist in 2022. 
  • Sophie Lecomte (Traditional Crafts / France 2004) invites to her solo exhibition at the Espace Saint Jean de Melun from March 18 to June 19, 2023.
  • Tim Whiten ( Visual Arts / USA 2002) was awarded the 2022 Gershon Iskowitz Prize.
  • News from Joseph Cavalieri (Visual Arts / USA 2011 & 2017):
    1) Joan of Arc in Dublin?
    Thank you to jurors Kim Mawhinney, Katya Heller, Lin Zhang and Karen Donnellan for choosing “Joan of the Roses” to be part of the Ireland Glass Biennale 2023, taking place at the Coach House Dublin Castle for an amazingly long exhibition from April 20 to August 20, 2023. 
    Kudos to my friends and my students at The National College of Art and Design especially Dr. Caroline Madden. I enjoyed teaching at NCAD in 2022, and remember no mask requirement for the first week of class and the policy changing for masks for the second week. Glad that is over, right! The focus of my work is Joan of Arc, martyr and a national symbol of France. Standing among floating roses in front of a landscape and a constellation of stars. The art is hand painted, silk screened and airbrushed enamel paint on stained glass. The glass is fired in a kiln at 1290 degrees Fahrenheit which melts the paint permanently onto the glass surface. The work is then solder together.
    2) Philosophy and Art and Film?
    Dana and Yori who run the School of Visual Philosophy in San Jose, CA, along with a film crew and production company, have put together a film on my work. Here is a short teaser of the video, where we made a work titled “Joan of the Roses” together. The full length twelve minute video will be out soon.
    I return for a second visit to SVP to teach my “Form, Fabricate, and Frame” class this March 23 to 27th, and we already have enough students for the class to run. Read more and sign up for the remaining seats here.
    3) Am I Being Overly Dramatic?
    Part of working with glass is sometimes it breaks. Thank you to my friends and family for being very supportive during my breakdown when all seven of my Endora Night Lights were lost then broken by UPS.  { R.I.P. Endora }
    4) In Nebraska?
    The LUX Center for the Arts annual Party & Art Auction will be held in the ballroom at the Scottish Rite Temple on Friday, April 21, 2023. It is Lincoln Nebraska’s most anticipated art event of the year and the LUX’s BIGGEST fundraiser! 
    I’ve donated my oil painting titled “Billiken.” He is a cute a vintage wind-up tin toy produced in Japan by the Billiken company in 1995. He is shiny, and in real life walks while swinging his arms, like all robots should.
    5) Upcoming classes? 
    Here is the latest glass classes I am teaching:  
    – March 23-27 School of Visual Philosophy, San Jose, CA  
    – May 22-26 GoggleWorks Center for the Arts, Reading PA  
    – June 5-9 / Pittsburgh Glass Center  
    – July and July at O’Keeffe Ghost Ranch, NM  (not listed yet on the Ghost Ranch site) 
       First O’Keeffe class: July 16-22 “Anime and Aesop Fables in Stained Glass” 
       Second O’Keeffe class: July 23-28 “Wonderland Stained Glass”
    – August 14-18 Snow Farm, Williamsburg, MA
    6) Back at GoggleWorks?
    Just found out today my class at GoggleWorks Center for the Arts in Reading, PA is a go! I was last there for a six week visiting artist residency in 2018. It will be great to return, if only for a week. 
    7) The Good, Bad and Ugly of Teaching!
    Very soon, on Thursday February 23rd  I will be presenting my webinar titled  “So You Want to Teach.” For an hour (+) I will share pointers and advice if you ever wanted to teach. This live webinar includes my favorite free websites, free bulk email services, tips on organizing supply lists, making money while you teach, plus we finish with a q&a.  As some of you might know my teaching credentials include over sixty workshops in the US, Israel, South America and Europe, including Corning Glass and Pilchuck Glass School and Pittsburgh Glass Center.   The webinar costs 45 bucks. Register here.
  • News from Faith Adiele (Literature / USA 2002 & 2010):
    1) In her kickoff piece as Senior Editor for the rejuvenated PANORAMA: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature, Faith discusses superpowered perspectives, critical viewpoints, and redefining travel writing in “At Long Last, A New Dawn in Travel Writing.”
    2) Meanwhile, Alta Journal featured last summer’s “Alta’s 2022 Favorite Bookstores: By Region” – which she contributed to – as one of their Editors’ Top Stories of 2022
    3) and her latest DETOUR column (featured in several newspapers around the US) delightfully portrayed the final leg of an inter-generational vacation in “Sandwich-generation travel: Taking a 80-year-old mom and a teen niece to México.”
  • News from Carolyne Wright (Literature / USA 2018):
    1) Carolyne received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, in 2020. This grant, delayed for two years by Covid-19, brought her back to Bahia for two months in mid-2022, and for another two months in 2023.
    2) A poem of mine, “Ghazal: Early Teens,” was featured on a blogsite called “Backstory of the Poem.” Here is the link to the featured poem, with a video of my reading it.
    3)  A conversation with Judith Baumel (a poet whom I have known since the early 2000s, and who also studied with Elizabeth Bishop) was published at the end of September 2022 in The Critical Flame. 
    4) Another poem, “This dream the world is having about itself….,” was a Finalist for the 2022 Fischer Poetry Prize from the Telluride Institute. 
    5) The poem, “Letter to Anand from Sacatar,” which received an Honorable Mention in the Samuel Washington Allen Prize (selected by Charles Coe), appeared in the New England Poetry Club Prize Winners’ Anthology 2022.  
  • Joseph Cavalieri (Visual Arts / USA 2011 & 2017) invites you to join us in New York for an art opening showing three of his oil paintings. This BobbleHaus opening is Thursday December 1st, 
    Runs from November 29th to January 8th. 180 Orchard St., New York, NY, just below Houston Street
    RSVP is required just for the opening. Feel free to email him if you like to visit together another time. // Also in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania he will be showing two paintings at the MVA Gallery Exhibition runs from Saturday December 3rd to January 5th. 35 E. Elizabeth Avenue, Bethlehem, PA
  • Faith Adiele (Literature / USA 2002 & 2010) continues her weekly DETOUR travel column, “Small World, Big Love,” with “Black food summit draws chefs, farmers, creatives and foodies to the Bay Area”; all of her prior pieces can be accessed here. Her meditation on volcanoes and life, “You Are Here: Things That Go Boom,” appeared in Alta Journal. She also contributed to the recently published Write Now! SF Bay anthology, Uncommon Ground: BIPOC Journeys to Creative Activism (Pease Press, San Francisco, 2022) and her recent hybrid chapbook submission received an offer for publication in 2023 by Small Harbor Publishing.
  • Lauri Lyons (Visual Arts & Photography / USA 2008 & 2021) is happy to share her latest news: On November 10, 2022, the Savannah City Council in Georgia unanimously voted to remove John C. Calhoun’s name from one of the City’s historic squares. The vote represents a triumphant victory for the enslaved and free Black people buried beneath the square, their descendants living throughout the African Diaspora, and the people who support democracy and racial justice in America.
    In July 2020, Lauri began to formally research and investigate the existence of the “Old Negro Burying Ground” and its surrounding history. During the research process, she learned the 258-year-old unmarked burial ground does exist and is located in Savannah’s Historic Downtown District, surrounded by landmarked buildings.
    The Old Negro Burying Ground is partially located, beneath Calhoun Square and Whitefield Square. John C. Calhoun was an infamous politician who vehemently advocated for slavery and organized acts of genocide against Black and Indigenous people. Calhoun’s racist philosophies laid the groundwork for the American Civil War and continues to influence America’s social and political discourse today. Rev. George Whitefield was a religious icon, slave owner, and prolific lobbyist for legalizing slavery in Georgia.
    In August 2020, Lauri launched a Change.org petition to remove Calhoun’s name from the square. The petition was an act of faith that led her to found the Rest With Honor Savannah Initiative, which gathered petition signatures and created public awareness and programs about the burial ground, John C. Calhoun and Rev. George Whitefield.
    This journey has not been easy or pleasant. It has been an extraordinary experience that catalyzed transformation for the ancestors, herself and the City of Savannah. A shift in consciousness and policy has occurred. Mission accomplished! 
  • Ed Madden (Literature / USA / 2019) is one of the winners of The 2022 Best Spiritual Literature Awards with his nonfiction book “Jerome Leaning Over His Book” that will be published in 2023 by Orison Books.
  • Sook Jin Jo (Visual Arts / Korea > USA 2001 & 2007) would like to inform the opening of her solo exhibition On The Street: The Extraordinary Vision of Sook Jin Jo at Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, Old Westbury, NY from October 28 – December 1, 2022. The public reception is scheduled for Wednesday, November 2nd, 4–7 pm, and an Artist Talk will be held on Wednesday, November 16th, 1–2:30 pm at NAB 1100
  • Deborah Ross (Visual Arts / USA 2019) is teaching an art conservation education program for the Maasai children at the Amboseli National Park in Kenya.
  • Sidiki Conde (Music / Guinea > USA 2004) was artist in Residence at A Studio in the Woods last Fall in New Orleans. His residence was focused on the terrors of climate change and its effect on the forests of New Orleans. The video Sidiki Conde: Climate Rising was the cummination of his stay.
  • Faith Adiele (Literature / USA 2002 & 2010) first two articles as the first-ever columnist for DETOUR: BEST STORIES IN BLACK TRAVEL, “The Importance of Being Ernest” and “A Snapshot of Visual Storyteller Lọlá Ákínmádé Åkerström” are out, with more to follow weekly!
  • News from Carolyne Wright (Literature / USA 2018):
    1) A poem, “Letter to Anand from Sacatar” received an Honorable Mention in the Samuel Washington Allen Prize, of the New England Poetry Club 2022, selected by Charles Coe.
    2) Carolyne will participate in the Prize Winners Reading, via Zoom, on October 2, 3 p.m. Eastern time / 4 p.m. Bahia time. 
  • Faith Adiele (Literature / USA 2002 & 2010) has signed a contract with DETOUR: BEST STORIES IN BLACK TRAVEL to become their first columnist. After writing about hating nature in Alaska, visiting Baldwin’s village in France, a retiree who leads tours recreating Harriet Tubman’s journeys, and an artist taking on Louis Agassiz’s racist legacy for the new travel brand, Faith was offered a weekly spot: The column will appear in the Miami Herald, Charlotte Observer, and on the Detour website and social media. In addition, her latest nonfiction piece “Thanksgiving” is up at Her Stry.
  • Isabel Ferrand (Visual Arts / Portugal – Netherlands 2009) is pleased to announce the up-coming group show Award Winners Kunstliefde Prijs from September 9 to October 9, 2022 and the video-interview made specially for the event.
  • Gabriella Smith (Music / USA 2016) is performing her own works in the 7-hour concert “Manifestes Sonores” at La Philharmonie in Paris on October 1, 2022 from 9pm to 4am. 
  • Étienne Yver (Visual Arts / France 2009) would like to invite you for two of his art shows:
    1) “Comme une présence…Commune présence” at the P.O.S. Gallery
    49 Rue d’Hauteville 75010 Paris
    Opening Thursday, September 15 from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.
    Exhibition until Sunday, September 25, 2022
    2) “Rencontres fortuites” Group show at Point Rouge Gallery / Saint-Rémy-de-Provence
    21 Rue Carnot 13210 Saint-Remy-de-Provence
    From October 12 to November 27, 2022 (Opening October 15, 2022)
  • News from Carolyne Wright (Literature / USA 2018):
    1) Her translation of Salvador-based, Afro-Brazilian poet Alex Simões’ poem, “trans formas são / trans forms action,” appeared in Nimrod International Journal, Vol. 64, No. 2, 2021.
    2) Alex Simões and Carolyne Wright read “trans formas são / trans forms action,” in a video posted on the Nimrod web site on 8/17/21.
    3) Carolyne Wright’s translation of Alex’s poem, “cemitério dos Pretos Novos” was published in PRISM International (Vol. 60, No. 1, Fall 2021 – Wonder) as “cemetery of the New Blacks.”
    4) An interview with Carolyne Wright and Alex Simões about their work together appears in the online site of PRISM International, Issue 60.1, Fall 2021 (Wonder):
    5) Carolyne Wright’s most recent book (in the Sacatar library!) is Masquerade, a memoir in poetry published by Lost Horse Press in September 2021.
    6) Several reviews of Masquerade have been published in literary journals online. 
  • Florence Neal (Visual Arts / USA 2018) “Águas do Futuro” is a public engagement exhibition about water, using water-based woodcut prints. Visitors are invited to answer the question, “What is the color of the water of the future?” The answers are included in the installation and are rendered visible in hand-carved, hand-printed woodcuts employing water-based pigments (mokuhanga) on Japanese (washi) paper. Mokuhanga (moku-wood, hanga-print) uses the traditional printing methods of the Ukiyo-e Japanese technique. A sound environment “Pingos/Ondulação/Corrente” is by the composer Michael Kowalski. The exhibition includes new mokuhanga prints about water and prints from the “Wood to Water” series.​
    Galeria Gravura Brasileira – Rua Ásia, 210, Cerqueira Cesar / São Paulo, Brasil
    August 13- September 15, 2022 – Opening Reception: Saturday, August 13, 1-5pm
    At 3pm – Florence will be demonstrating #mokuhanga printing and asking the question: Qual a cor da água do futuro? “As Águas do Futuro” is the first gallery exhibition in Brazil. The project began during a Sacatar Foundation Artist Residency on the island of Itaparica in Bahia, Brazil.
  • Ed Madden (Literature / USA / 2019) had his book project A Pooka in Arkansas chosen by The Hilary Tham Capital Collection to be published in 2023. 
  • Margriet Westerhof (Moving Image / Netherlands 2011 & 2019) would like to share her latest project with the Sacatar community: De Kraak – Can You Love A Seamonster? Dive into an enchanting world, filled with stories. The Kraken, a mythical, giant octopus will show the way. He will demonstrate how humans have always tried to live together with the sea’s wild nature. The Kraken will show how things can go terribly wrong, but also what beautiful things can come from it.
    In the role of creative director and animation artist I realized this project together with a group Dutch, German and Danish animation artists, composers and designers. And until 2026 we will  show the installation in various Museums and Nature Centres in The Netherlands, Germany and Denmark. 
  • Gerald Cyrus (Photography / USA 2002 & 2011) is happy to announce the publication of the booklet Harlem Nights 1990–2001. It’s an intimate collection of photos, and it’s being published and sold by Cafe Royal Books in England. The price is a very modest 6.50 British pounds (a little over US$8). Here’s the link to preview and order.
  • Kristin Capp (Photography / USA 2004) is pleased to present her show ‘Desolate Beauty‘, a selection of photographs from her ‘Americana’ Series at Koplin Del Rio Gallery in Seattle, WA through July 23.
  • Diana Blok (Photography / Netherlands – Uruguay 2003 & 2018) would like to inform the opening of her solo show ‘Gender Monologues’, interactive media installation at Centre del Carme Cultura Contemporània in Valencia (ESP). From June 17 to October 16, 2022.
  • Scott Hocking (Visual Arts / USA / 2016) is thrilled to share that his new sculpture “Floating Citadel” will be mounted in downtown Detroit by late summer.
  • Ed Madden (Literature / USA / 2019) would like to share with you his essay entitled Bridges.
  • Carol Barton (Traditional Crafts / EUA / 2001) invites you to join her and four internationally-known instructors for the retreat “The Art of Paper” in Italy! From September 18 – October 2, 2022 in the fabulous Italian hill town of Monte Castello di Vibio, Umbria.
  • Jeffrey Long (Visual Arts / USA / Sacatar test artist 2001) invites you for the launch of his monograph JEFFREY LONG PAINTINGS 1970-2020. Thursday, April 28, 5:30-7:30 at Sausalito Books by the Bay.
  • News from Carolyne Wright (Literature / USA 2018):  I’m writing to let you know that after two years of pause, the Fulbright Commission of Brazil has resumed its program, and after much uncertainty, my plans have come together over the last several days. I was able to change my award to a “Flex” (multiple-entry) grant, which means that I will spend two months in Bahia this year, and two months in 2023. I am scheduled to arrive in SSA – Salvador da Bahia on June 1st, and depart on August 1st. I will spend much of the time working on the project for which I was honored to receive the Fulbright, a manuscript of poetry in bilingual form, Solstice in the South: a Poetic Sequence in Conversation with Bahia / Solstício no Sul: uma sequência poética em conversa com a Bahia. And I will continue working with Alex Simões to translate his poetry, also visit classes and give workshops and presentations at UFBA (my official host institution) and elsewhere, wherever I am invited.
  • Florence Neal (Visual Arts / USA 2018) will have a show at Gravura Brasileira in São Paulo, Brazil of her WATERS OF THE FUTURE project that began at Sacatar! Still resonating in that spirit and so thankful for that experience. Also, here are some prints she made at Sacatar –  turning trees into water (woodcuts made from the bark of “sacred” trees).
  • Angèle Etoundi Essamba (Photography / Cameroon > Netherlands 2019) is pleased to share the latest news on her activity: Renaissance at Nederlands Fotomuseum from 14 Feb – 20 April 2022 in Rotterdam; Droit de Regard at Galerie Les Arts du Soleil – Geneva from 14 Feb – 31 May 2022; The upcoming show The Milk of Dreams at The Venice Biennale 2022 – First NFT Art Exhibition at Giardini and Arsenale – preview 19, 20, 21 and 22 April 2022 / 10am – 7pm; Cameroon’s First-Ever Pavilion The Time of the Chimeras at The Venice Biennale 2022 from 23 April – 27 November 2022 at Liceo Artistico Guggenheim-Dorsoduro in Venice.
  • Michael Zelehoski (Visual Arts / USA 2015) invites to his show Social Fabric from March 12 to April 23 at Backlash Gallery.
  • Ayesha Harruna Attah (Literature / Ghana 2015) would like to share her latest news: One of them is THE DEEP BLUE BETWEEN, which has officially been published in North America. Please get a copy for the young reader in your life. Watch me discuss this book with my sister-writer Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond, whose gorgeous children’s book BLUE has also recently hit the shelves.
    My novel about twins separated after a brutal attack on their village received a starred review in Kirkus Reviews, who praised it as “a successful exploration of rich cultural experiences and enduring familial connections.” I was also interviewed in the magazine’s special international issue. Check it out here. Currently available in Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, German, THE DEEP BLUE BETWEEN is being released in Catalan today. I can’t help lining up all the book covers and admiring them. It’s really hard to pick a fave! And in rom-com news, I am thrilled that ZAINAB TAKES NEW YORK makes its hard copy appearance next month. You can pre-order here.
  • Lauren Frances Adams (Visual Arts / USA 2016) invites you to join her this Wednesday, February 16, from 6p-7p EST for the panel LASTING LEGACIES ~ In conjunction with the exhibit of my work and three other amazing artists at the Baltimore Museum of Art through April 3.
  • Daniel V. Melim (Visual Arts / Portugal 2013) would like to invite you to his solo show “broken temple, unbreakable spirit” at Monitor Gallery (Rome). Opening 12.February.2022, 4 – 8pm. Performance by Daniel V. Melim at 6pm. Exhibition runs until 18.March.2022. Daniel will do a live music performance at the opening night.
  • Sandra Brewster (Visual Arts / Canada 2017) presents two new site-specific commissions including DENSE and A Place to Put Your Things at The Power Plant Gallery and Harbourfront Centre in Toronto. On view from February 5 to May 1, 2022.
  • Ed Madden (Literature / USA 2019) was honored in 2022 with South Carolina’s highest award for exceptional achievement in practicing or supporting the arts by the South Carolina Arts Commission (SCAC)
  • Mandy Morrison (Moving Images / USA 2019) has received a 2021-22 grant from the Maryland State Council on the Arts for her video “Journey of the Invader Spirit” which will be exhibited at the Peale Center, in Baltimore, Maryland in the Summer/Fall of 2022.
  • Jane Ingram Allen (Traditional Crafts / USA 2002) is happy to invite you to an exhibition of a collaborative art project titled “In Deep Water” that she has been working on since September 2021 with printmaker Jami Taback.  The project is focused on the current climate crisis and water and makes use of her handmade paper skills and Jami’s printmaking expertise in a multi-media multi-part large-scale installation combining printmaking and hand papermaking.  The work will be installed from Jan 15 to Jan. 31 at the Sonoma Community Center Gallery, Sonoma, CA. A few preliminary photos of the work in the exhibition is on the Sonoma Community website. The Artists Talk at the opening will be live and via Zoom on Sat. Jan. 15 at 2 pm.
  • Sook Jin Jo (Visual Arts / Korea 2001 & 2007) just published her new photo book “Traces“ by korean Noonbit Publishing co. “The photos are mainly disappearing homes, factories, and historical places in many countries taken  between 2001-2014. Several photos I took in Itaparica and Salvador are included.”
  • Diana Blok (Photography / Netherlands – Uruguay 2003 & 2018) would like to share her online exhibition entitled “The Songs of Diana: the Countess of Otherness” curated by Aruban artist Nelson Gonzalez. 
  • Lauri Lyons (Visual Arts & Photography / USA 2008 & 2021) is one of the artists featured in “The Sound She Saw” documentary film about black female photographers. The film had its premiere screening in December 2021 in New York.
  • Faith Adiele‘s (Literature / USA 2002 & 2010) latest review at Hyperallergic features “Lunchbox Moments,” the widely popular charity ‘zine created by 3 San Francisco-based food writers (30 Artists and Writers Savor and Digest Those “Lunchbox Moments) and in her latest Sleep Story on the Calm App, “The Land of Springs” (narrated by Phylecia Renae, music by Bill Laswell), she wrote about circumnavigating the turquoise waters and green jungles of Jamaica by boat.
  • French & Mottershead are the UK artist duo Rebecca French and Andrew Mottershead. And they are pleased to announce the launch of a new work Lull, an audio and visual pack for a winter walk through the town of King’s Lynn, exploring how nature survives the darkest months.
  • The award-winning American writer Ladee Hubbard (Literature / USA 2017) is thrilled to share that her first novel The Talented Ribkins was just translated to portuguese and published in Brazil by @paralelo13s. The book is part of the Writers of the Americas collection and was launched on a @livrariabotocorderosa youtube channel live on November 27. Check it out!
  • France-Luce Benson (Literature & Playwright / Haiti 2019) is the winner of the $10,000 Lorraine Hansberry Award. The winners are nominated and chosen by a revolving anonymous panel of industry professionals. This year’s winners will be celebrated in person at The Lilly Awards show next spring, alongside the Lilly winners of 2020 and 2022.
  • Joseph Cavalieri (Visual Arts / USA 2011 & 2017) is taking part in the show Fire and Form: New Directions in Glass at Long Island Museum until December 19, 2021.
  • Daniel Gwirtzman (Dance / USA 2003 & 2013) presents his new dance film entitled “Camo Man Dances“, shot on location in Ucross, Wyoming, at The Ucross Foundation’s expansive compound of 20,000 private acres, Camo Man is out in the wild. Toggling between a signature humor and a serious commitment to the art of contemporary modern dance.
  • Faith Adiele’s (Literature / USA 2002 & 2010) review of the new art exhibition, “Mothership: Voyage Into Afrofuturism,” that marks the reopening of the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA), was published in Hyperallergic. She also served as the judge for the 2021 Hal Prize in Nonfiction for the Peninsula Pulse and Write On, Door County in Wisconsin.
  • Chandrahas Choudhury (Literature / India 2017) just published the article “What Gandhi can tell us about what we eat” on the Arab News.
  • Sook Jin Jo (Visual Arts / Korea 2001 & 2007) invites you to watch Five Short Documentaries which explores her international multidisciplinary, diverse and dynamic work, including her work with sculpture, installation, performance art and architecture. Interviews with the artist feature an in-depth discussion of her architectural installation in Tipitapa, Nicaragua as well as her overall body of work and include footage of her collaborative performance work with the award winning composer, clarinetist and also Sacatar Fellow Derek Bermel (Music / USA 2007) in South Korea and Brazil.
  • Precious Lovell (Traditional Crafts / USA 2017) will be the inaugural Fellow in the new Anchorlight’s Brightwork Fellowship, beginning in January 2022. The Fellowship provides a 500+ square-foot studio space at Anchorlight, an exhibition opportunity in our gallery, and an unrestricted financial award of $50,000.00 to one artist per year who is at a pivotal moment in their career.
  • Gabriel Kram (Visual Arts / USA 2006) will launch the book “Restorative Practices of Wellbeing” in March, 2022.
  • Faith Adiele’s (Literature / USA 2002 & 2010) “To Mario, 26-Year-Old Bestie to my 78-Year-Old Mom” appears in the new anthology, Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us, edited by Colleen Kinder, published by Algonquin Books on October 5, 2021.
  • Etienne Yver (Visual Arts / France 2008) invites to his show “Vita Brevis / Ars Longa” in homage to Olivier Greif at at the Conservatory (CRR), 14 rue de Madrid in Paris 8th from Wednesday September 29 to Thursday October 14, 2021.
  • Pinar Yolacan (Photography / Turkey 2006) is part of the group show “She Appeared to Vanish” which is opened now through November 7th 2021 at HOME and Waterside Arts, Manchester, UK. She will be showing two video pieces “Kathak” and “Mulher Maravilha” as well as photographs from “Corpo Mechanico” series. Also, a feature on her video piece with Tuire Kayapo which was published in Riposte Magazine’s “Release and Reset” issue is now open to non subscribers. You can read the piece here.
  • Diana Blok (Photography / Netherlands – Uruguay 2003 & 2018) would like to share her interview at Talking Pictures with Alasdair Foster, where she discusses her early work and its ongoing evolution through to the present.
  • Gregory Beyer (Music / USA 2004) presents “Traíra” – Arcomusical: Spinning in the Wheel – Berimbau Sextet No. 2
  • Florence Neal (Visual Arts / USA 2018) presents “Waters of the Future” – Print Project & Sound Environment by Florence Neal & Michael Kowalski. Exhibition Dates: September 13 – October 16, 2021. Event: September 13, 1-5pm, Artist’s Intervention / Public Engagement. Sponsored by the Columbus State University Department of Art – Fulcrum Gallery, 1011 Broadway, Columbus, Georgia (on view 24/7).
    Waters of the Future is an installation about water incorporating water-based block prints with a sound environment, “Water Music with Ichiyanagi Mix,” a suite of thirty musical miniatures by Michael Kowalski.
    “What is the color of the water of the future?”
    Waters of the Future reflects the responses to this question by over 170 people living in Brazil and the United States. Answers to the question are rendered visible through hand-carved, hand-printed woodcuts with water-based pigments on Japanese paper (washi) using the traditional (Ukiyo-e) Japanese printing technique or mokuhanga.
    Join Us! September 13, 1 – 5 pm – The artist will be on-site to engage with visitors and hand-print visitor responses to the question while demonstrating the Japanese printing technique, mokuhanga. Each participant in the project will receive a “Waters of the Future” button designed by Florence.
    The “Waters of the Future” (“As Águas do Futuro”) project began at the Sacatar Foundation in Bahia, Brazil (2018).
  • Michael Zelehoski (Visual Arts / USA 2015) is part of The Armory Show with Tang Contemporary. 
  • Bia Gayotto (Visual Arts / USA – Brazil 2018) is thrilled that one of her recent works is included in the book “Embodied Forest” organized by Ecoartspace director Patricia Lee Watts, with essays by Lilian Fraiji and Sant Khalsa. The book includes 90 artists who use “knowledge and poetic freedom to help understand ecology in the Anthropocene and generate new sensibilities to an ethical relation to nature”. The book will be printed in October, and you may preorder it hereand here is a link to the fundraiser gallery including one of my works as well.
  • Shimon Attie (Visual Arts / USA 2019) Join us on September 18th to view Shimon Attie’s Night Watch. From 7:15-7:35 p.m. the temporary art event will be viewable from the public Bay Walk at Pier 15 and 17. The Exploratorium is delighted to partner with Night Watch BOXBLUR at Catherine Clark Gallery and the Immersive Art Alliance to participate in the Bay Area’s first 2021 multi-city art+social justice event. Night Watch by artist Shimon Attie is a floating media arts installation that will activate in the San Francisco Bay and September 17-19. It will pass by Pier 15 on the evening of September 17th and will pause for a special 20 minute viewing at Exploratorium’s Pier 15 on September 18.
  • Sophie Lecomte (Traditional Crafts / France 2004) is part of the exhibition “À même la Terre” at Centre Tignous d’Art Contemporain in Montreuil, France from September 9 to October 30, 2021.
  • Faith Adiele’s (Literature / USA 2002 & 2010) review of Kenyan artist Wangechi Mutu’s new installation at the San Francisco Legion of Honor, I Am Speaking, Are You Listening?, appeared in Hyperallergic. She was also interviewed about pandemic travel in the Toronto Star.
  • Basir Mahmood (Moving Images / Pakistan 2014) is pleased to share that he will be having his solo presentation at KINDL Berlin. Curated by Kathrin Becker.
  • It’s been a busy time for Faith Adiele (Literature / USA 2002 & 2010), who spent all of July as the artist-in-residence at Surel’s Place in Boise, Idaho. As part of her residency, she taught her first in-person workshop in 16 months, was featured in two public events, and was interviewed on two radio shows, The Lovely Afro on Radio Boise and Morning Edition – NPR Idaho. Her profile on hotelier Damon Lawrence and his hospitality brand focused on Black culture and history, Stay Homage, was published in Here Magazine. And finally, A World of Calm, the HBO series that she wrote two stories for, was recently nominated for (though did not win) a Critic’s Choice Real TV Award 2021 in the Best Structured Series category.
  • Chandrahas Choudhury (Literature / India 2017) wrote the article “India’s economic miracle faces new challenges” for the Arab News.
  • Mandy Morrison (Performance / USA 2018)  is the recent recipient of an Individual Artist Grant for 2021 from the Tree of Life Foundation. On July 28, 2021, Mandy will be part of a group performance “Hold it Together: We Have Each Other” conceived by Maja Bekan (Netherlands/Serbia) and developed in 2020 during Covid. The performance will be part of a studio open house held at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in Brooklyn New York, where Maja Bekan is an artist-in-residence.
  • Paulo Nazareth (Performance / Brazil 2014) has photographs of his works Notícias de America (2011-2012); Para Venda (2011); Para Cuando Ellos Me Busquen en el Desierto (2012); Cadernos de Africa (2014); Dancing with Myself (2016-2017) and Debut! (2018) as part of the Pinault Collection. And presented his performance work Moinho de Vento / Moinho by Paulo Nazareth as part of the inaugural cultural program of the new Bourse de Commerce museum in Paris, France.
  • Hannah Morris‘ (Visual Arts / South Africa 2008) solo show of new collage paintings “On Second Thought” is on view through August 15th, 2021 at Northern Daughters Gallery in Vergennes, Vermont. There will be an in-person opening reception on Saturday, July 10, 3 to 6 p.m. Hannah will take part in a salon style interview at 5 p.m.
  • Sook Jin Jo (Visual Arts / Korea 2001 & 2007) had the work created during her residency at Sacatar featured on the cover of Sculpture Magazine in the July / August 2021 issue.
  • Sony Pictures Television Launches Diverse Writers Program With Sixteen Aspiring Scribes. And France-Luce Benson (English Literature / Haiti 2019) is one of them. Congratulations!
  • Faith Adiele (Literature / USA 2002) wrote a poignant review of the audio memory archive for Black lives lost, “1-800 Happy Birthday,” that was published at hyperallergic.com: A Joyous, Sorrowful Archive of Birthday Messages for Lives Lost to Police. She also contributed a letter written to Biracial/Multiracial/Mixed Black girls to the recently published  Dear Black Girl: Letters from Your Sisters on Stepping Into Your Power, edited by Tamara Winfrey-Harris (Letters to Black Girls Project). Faith also talks bandit territory on an episode of the new travel podcast “There She Goes!: travel stories told by the women who wrote them” and is featured in a brief bonus Q & A as well: Passing through Bandit Territory — there she goes. The podcast is co-hosted by the series editor of The Best Women’s Travel Writing: True Stories from Around the World, Lavinia Spaulding, and constant traveler, Kelly Chappie. Faith was also recently featured in a Washington Post article by Tanya Ward Goodman, “With airline altercations on the rise, a guide to best practices for bystanders.”
  • Stacey Steers (Moving Images / USA 2006) announces that George Eastman Museum will be streaming a conversation to discuss her work and the Night Reels exhibition on Thursday, May 27th at 6:00pm EDT. Gordon Nelson, the curator, and Stacey will be speaking live from the galleries. The exhibition is open to the public through June 6th. Click here for a 360 virtual tour of the show. 
  • Bia Gayotto (Visual Arts / Brazil – USA 2018) is part of the exhibition “Abstraction/Not Abstraction: Recent Drawing and Painting in Los Angeles” a virtual group show curated by David DiMichele at I-Beam Gallery, with amazing artists Yvette Gellis, Virginia Katz, Constance Mallinson, Danny Shain and Marie Thibeault.
  • Ayesha Harruna Attah (Literature / Ghana 2015) Her first young adult novel The Deep Blue Between was just released in Italian and it will be in the US in Spring 2022. Translations in Dutch, German and Brazilian Portuguese are forthcoming. And it will be soon available in West Africa! Click here for upcoming book events.
  • Philip Boehm (Literature / USA 2016) – Brazos Bookstore and Goethe Pop-Up Houston presents Philip Boehm in conversation with Mimi Swartz for his translation of The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Bochwitz. There will be a brief reading by Philip Boehm followed by a conversation with Mimi Swartz.  On Tuesday, April 20, 2021 – 7:00pm. This event will be hosted on Zoom Webinar. 
  • Daniel Gwirtzman (Dance / USA 2003 & 2013) Contemporary Modern Class 90 minutes. A morning dance class designed to awaken the body and bring it to fullness regardless of the dancer’s day ahead! Geared toward an intermediate/advanced level, this modern class promotes an ease of movement, individual expression, and choreographies which blend casualness with precision, the Company’s signature style. Enjoy this spirited, high-energy class and Daniel’s engaging pedagogy. Suggested Class Donation $9/class. Click to register on our Eventbrite page.
  • Join master artisan Joseph Cavalieri (Visual Arts / USA 2011 & 2017) for this live, two-hour Glass Expert Webinar My Glass Secrets for glasspatterns.com. On Thursday, May 20, 2021 at 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. Eastern. 
  • Lauri Lyons (Photography / USA 2008) is pleased to announce the Savannah African Art Museum is now an official sponsor of the Rest with Honor initiative to commemorate the Savannah African Burial Ground.
  • Fran Siegel (Visual Arts / USA 2015) is part of the group show Space as Presence at the Long Beach Museum of Art with the site-specific work “Lineage Through Landscape”
  • Candice Lin (Visual Arts / USA 2011) is part of the group show “Uma História Natural das Ruínas” with the video “Whole New Animal” at Pivo Arte Pesquisa in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
  • Celia de Villiers (Traditional Crafts / South Africa 2004) will be part of the group show The Threads That Bind Us at The Viewing Room, Pretoria,South Africa.
  • Michael Lowenthal (Literature / USA 2008) is pleased to announce his new book “Sex with Strangers”, a short story collection published by University of Wisconsin Press.
  • Basir Mahmood (Video / Pakistan 2014) received the Ammodo Tiger Short Award for his film “Sunsets, Everyday“ from the International Film Festival Rotterdam – IFFR.
  • Laurie Anderson (USA / Sacatar Solo 2016) presents The Norton Lectures, a series of six online events entitled Spending the War Without You: Virtual Backgrounds. Register for a Zoom link at Mahindra Humanities Center website.  
  • Stacey Steers (Moving Images / USA 2006) is pleased to announce the opening of her solo exibition “Night Reels” that opens on Friday, February 5, 2021 at George Eastman Museum in Rochester, NY.
  • Mandy Morrison (Film / USA 2019) is part of the group show Codex along with Brandon Ables, Jason Charney and Adan Rodriguez from Jan 28 – Mar 13, 2021 at Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture.
  • Kubra Khademi (Visual Arts / Afghanistan > France 2019) is pleased to announce the opening of her solo show “From the Two Page Book” at Gallery Eric Mouchet in Paris, France from Jan 30 – Mar 16, 2021.
  • Sidiki Conde (Music / Guinea & USA 2004) participated in Beat of the Boroughs: NYC Online. The program was produced by The Center for Traditional Music and Dance. This online series celebrates the artistry of fifty of New York City’s leading immigrant performers and diverse cultural traditions from around the world found in New York City, while furthering the public’s understanding and appreciation of their work in these difficult times.
  • Faith Adiele (Literature / USA 2002 & 2010) wrote two episodes in the new HBO Max mini-documentary series “A World of Calm”, which premiered in October 2020. She also had several essays published recently: “The New Old Vocabulary” in the anthology, Alone Together: Love, Grief & Comfort in the Time of COVID, from which sales go to benefit indie bookstores; “The Eye Exam,” which appears in The Offing and discusses race, identity and medicine; and “A Family Project,” about meeting and getting naked with long-lost Finnish family, included in The Best Women’s Travel Writing, Volume 12: True Stories from Around the World, edited by Lavinia Spalding and illustrated by Colette Hannahan.
  • Okwei Odili (Music / Nigeria and Brazil 2013) has just released the song “A Lua” in partnership with Banda Aweto on all musical platforms
  • Daniel Melim (Visual Arts / Portugal 2013) is pleased to announce the opening of his solo show “Sete – Estrelo” at Monitor Lisbon Gallery on Friday November 13th, from 2 – 8 pm, in the context of Lisbon Art Weekend 2020. The show will be on view from November 13, 2020 – January 23, 2021
  • Marija Stojnic (Film and Video / Serbia 2017) latest film “Speak so I can see you” will be featured online on the following venues: Escales Documentaires-International Festival Of Creative Documentary and Listapad Minsk International Film Festival
    Marija Stojnic invites former Sacatar fellows writers and poets for collaboration:
    “Dear former fellows and friends of Sacatar, in 2017 I had the privilege to capture bits and pieces of life on Itaparica and at Instituto Sacatar, which I intend to turn into a series of miniatures for non-commercial use. In some of these miniatures I would like to collaborate with other fellows who found themselves in the same place at a different time, and include your poetry or other short forms of writing like thoughts, dreams, excerpts from essays etc. The written work should either thematically be connected to Bahia, Itaparica, Brasilian heritage or contemporary issues and challenges of the region, or in some way reflect the experience of the residency. Works in Portuguese and English are welcome to apply.”
    For more info, please reach out to marijastojnic@gmail.com
    Reference video: Iemanja Song, Dona Cici
  • Fred Martin (Visual Arts / France 2013 & 2018) presents his latest work “PYRA” (Burned wood, branches and plaster cast of faces) on view at Parcours des Lum’rottes, Quevaucamps, Belgium from 24th october – 7 november 2020
  • Solange Lima (Circus Arts / Brazil & France 2005) presents the children show entitled “Dans la Cabane” on November 19, 2020 at Salle de l’Ancien Cinéma Merlen in Gravelines, France.
  • Gerald Cyrus (Photography / USA 2002 & 2011) exhibits six of his Itaparica 2011 portraits at the group show Uptown Triennial 2020 at Columbia University Wallach Art Gallery in NYC from Sept. 24 – Dec. 13, 2020 
  • Pat Oleszko (Performance / USA 2008 & 2017) is part of the group show entitled “Living Things” curated by Marie Catalano from October 28 – November 28, 2020 at JTT Gallery in NYC.
  • Bia Gayotto (Brazil / USA 2018) is showing in the virtual exhibition Suturo organized by Durden and Ray gallery, together with so many incredible artists and poets! Her artwork contribution was inspired by Eve Luckring’s poem.
  • William Adjété Wilson (France 2013) invites for the opening of his solo show “Tissages et métissages” Textile and appliqué collages on October 13 and 14, 2020 at MAM Gallery, Douala – Cameroon
  • Michael Zelehoski (USA 2015) is proud to announce two current solo shows: ALL OF THIS AND NOTHING at The Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art / Beijing and ZELEHOSKI: NEW WORK at Bernay Fine Art / New York.
  • Amy Campion (USA 2012), Antics and Vision Paradox partnered to produce a series of six short films called “Hip Hop Dancers Talk About Why They Vote”. We hope to inspire young people to vote and participate in our democracy. Join us in GOTV efforts by posting and sharing these videos with every young person you know! #VotingIsCool
  • Lauri Lyons (USA 2008) will teach the Virtual Class: Social Justice & Diversity in the Media. Date Start: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 / Date End: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 / Time: 7:30-10:30 p.m. (US Eastern Time)
  • Brenda Rios (Mexico 2019) has just published the fictional book “La suma de las noches”. The work is available in ePUB.
  • Mark Steven Greenfield (USA 2013) invites to the opening of his exhibition “Black Madonna” at the William Turner Gallery on Saturday, September 19, from 11 am to 7 pm. The exhibition runs from September 22 to November 28, 2020.
  • Étienne Yver (France 2009) participates in the multidisciplinary event “Préludes” that takes place on Sunday 27 September 2020 at 18h at Maison Heinrich Heine in Paris.
  • Celia de Villiers (South Africa 2004) and her partner Kris van’t Hof will be part of the Contextile Textile Art Biennial that happens in Guimaraes, Portugal from 5 september — 25 october 2020 along with 870 artists from 65 countries.
    Celia has been asked to do a short talk about the two large artworks (180x180cm each) they made in collaboration with the Intuthuko Collective of embroiderers in South Africa.
  • Angèle Etoundi Essamba (Netherlands 2019) invites for her latest group exhibition INSIDE BLACK! at Arte et Amicitiae Gallery from Sept 5 – 27, 2020 in Amsterdam.