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  • 2021 Grantees Announced

    We have chosen 17 applicants working on diverse projects from ten countries for this year’s grantees, who can all be viewed here.

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  • 2021 Grant Application Period Now Closed

    This year we had the most grant applications we’ve ever received—a 33 percent increase over 2020—and from the greatest number of countries (53)!

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  • New Film From 2020 Grantees Just Wondering

    2020 grantees Just Wondering recently released a short animated film that explores different ideas of justice through anti-speciesist lenses.

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  • Art Installation From 2020 Grantee Colleen Plumb

    2020 CAF grantee Colleen Plumb has an installation called Invisible Visible up at the Riverside Art Center in Riverside, IL now until February 22nd….

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  • 2021 Grant Application Period Now Open

    We are now accepting applications for our 2021 grants until January 31st. CAF funds academic and artistic projects that raise public awareness about concern for animals,

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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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  • Call for Participants to Share Climate Catastrophe Stories

    2020 CAF grantee Hayley Singer is looking for participants to contribute to her project.

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  • 2020 Grantees Announced

    We have chosen 14 applicants working on diverse projects from eight countries for this year’s grantees, who can all be viewed here.

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  • New Book from Board Member and Grantee Jo-Anne McArthur

    Board member and multiple-year grantee Jo-Anne McArthur is taking pre-orders for her latest book, Hidden: Animals in the Anthropocene, a…

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  • Watch Grantee’s Video, The Tiger Next Door

    2009-10 grantee Camilla Calamandrei‘s feature documentary The Tiger Next Door is now available for 99 cents on Vimeo

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  • 2020 Grant Application Period Now Closed

    We’re delighted that CAF has received 130 applications from 46 countries for the 2020 grant application period. (more…)

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  • 2017 CAF Grantee Gal Nissim has a New Installation: SurveillAnts

    2017 CAF grantee Gal Nissim invites people to SurveillAnts, a collaborative installation with Leslie…

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  • Kathleen Gill Showed Her Series of Paintings: Reserved & Deserved

    2019 CAF Grantee Kathleen (Katy) Gill has completed her series of paintings called “Reserved & Deserved.”

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  • Diana Donald Publishes Book: Women Against Cruelty

    2014 CAF Grantee Diana Donald has published her latest book, Women Against Cruelty: Protection of Animals in Nineteenth-century Britain.

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  • 2020 Grant Application Period Now Open

    We are now accepting applications for our 2020 grants until January 31st. CAF funds academic and artistic projects that raise public awareness about concern for animals,

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  • All Creatures Great and Small Art Exhibit Opening Soon

    2019 CAF grantee Shannon Johnstone received a grant for an art exhibition called “All Creatures Great and Small,” which will be on…

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  • 2019 Compassion Arts Festival

    Compassion Arts Festival is celebrating their 5th year with a month of events from October 5th to November 2nd 2019.

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  • 2017 CAF Grantee Gal Nissim Presents the Third Part of the Synanthrope Preserve Series

    2017 CAF grantee Gal Nissim invites people to participate in an immersive audio piece in New York City called “The First to Cross.” …

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  • Grantee’s Podcasting Network: iROAR

    Siobhan O’Sullivan, a 2019 grantee, has established a podcasting network called iROAR. It’s dedicated to animal advocacy, scholarship, ideas, social justice,…

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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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  • Mark Mathew Braunstein’s Video Is Now Complete

    2019 grantee Mark Mathew Braunstein has completed his video on veg*sm in art. You can watch the video on YouTube: “Vegan…

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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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  • ABE, ALPINE GOAT, AGE 21

    Isa Leshko—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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  • 2019 Grantees Announced

    We have chosen 15 applicants working on diverse projects from nine countries for this year’s grantees, who can all be viewed here.

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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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  • 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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  • Grantee Isa Leshko has New Book

    2016 grantee Isa Leshko is working on a book to be published this spring called Allowed to Grow Old: Portraits of Elderly Animals from…

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  • Kim Stallwood and Radhika Subramaniam Have Chapters in New Book

    Animal Biography: Re-framing Animal Lives edited by André Krebber and Mieke Roscher is now out.

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  • Watch the 2018 Highlights from CAF and Our Grantees

    CAF remains unique in championing scholarship and the arts to further understanding of, inspire advocacy for, and deepen our connection with, non-human animals.

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  • Second Issue of Animal Culture Magazine Out Now

    Patricia Denys, a 2018 CAF grantee, along with Mary Holmes, and Karlie Kawa, have joined together to create…

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  • Vegan Hip-Hop Album by CAF Grantee Mr. Hip Out Now

    Culture and Animals Foundation 2018 grantee Donald Vincent aka Mr. Hip is a spoken word poet and hip-hop musician based in Los Angeles. He began recording…

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  • Grantee Michael Harren has New Book

    2016 grantee Michael Harren has a book out called The Animal Book.

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  • Linda Brant’s Monument To Animals We Do Not Mourn to be Unveiled in the Spring

    2015 and 2016 grantee, Linda Brant, has been working on her project, To Animals We Do Not Mourn.

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  • 2019 Grant Application Period Now Open

    We are now accepting applications for our 2019 grants until January 31st. (more…)

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  • CAF 2017 Grantees Showcase Their Latest Project

    Martin Rowe, CAF co-vice president, writes: Looming clouds and threats of a thunderstorm didn’t deter the dozen or so enthusiasts who arrived at the south-east corner of Central Park…

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  • 2017 CAF Grantee Gal Nissim Presents The Synanthrope Preserve

    2017 CAF grantee Gal Nissim, along with Jessica Scott-Dutcher, invite visitors to discover the urban wildlife of Central Park in their project, The…

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  • CAF Board Member and Grantee is Voted Wildlife Photographer of the Year

    We’re very excited that multiple CAF grantee and board member Jo-Anne McArthur was voted Wildlife Photographer of the Year, People’s Choice Winner with her photograph of Pikin…

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  • Apply for a CAF Grant

    We are currently accepting applications for our 2018 grants. (more…)

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  • Upcoming Minding Animals Conference in Mexico from January 17th-24th

    The fourth Minding Animals Conference is happening this January in Ciudad de México from the 17th-24th. 

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  • End of Year Newsletter

    Check out our latest newsletter to hear about what CAF has been up to this year. And thank you to everyone who has supported us in…

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  • Support Artists and Scholars Working for Animals this #GivingTuesday

    For three decades, CAF has provided artists and scholars with grants to help them advocate for animals and deepen our understanding of them. Grantees have…

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  • Highlights from the Compassion Arts & Culture and Animals Festival

    The first Compassion Arts & Culture and Animals Festival took place on October 21–22, 2017 in New York City. The Culture & Animals Foundation joined with Compassion Arts…

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