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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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Meet an Advisory Board Member—Part 9: 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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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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Meet an Advisory Board Member—Part 8: 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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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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Meet an Advisory Board Member—Part 7: 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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Successful Second Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture
On August 9th, Sherry F. Colb gave the second Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture at University of Colorado Boulder. The lecture…
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First Research Fellow Finishes Work
Rachel Robison-Greene recently finished up her time at the Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) and their Animal Rights Archive at the NC State University Libraries. She…
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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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Meet an Advisory Board Member—Part 6: 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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The First Annual Tom Regan Visiting Research Fellow Announced
The NC State University Libraries has awarded the first annual Tom Regan Visiting Research Fellowship to Rachel…
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Recent Investigations of the Slaughtering of Pigs
Board member and multiple-year grantee Jo-Anne McArthur and multiple-year grantees Amy Jones and Paul Healey have pieces in The Guardian’s
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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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Meet an Advisory Board Member—Part 5: 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—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—Part 4: 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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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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Meet an Advisory Board Member—Part 3: 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—Part 2: 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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Announcing the 2019 Tom Regan Visiting Research Fellowship
CAF is collaborating with the Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) at the NC State University Libraries to establish a fellowship in memory of Tom Regan to…
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Meet an Advisory Board Member—Part 1: 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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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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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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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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Book Launch for the Bangla Edition of The Philosophy of Animal Rights
Pradhikar, an animal advocacy group based in the city of Sylhet in northeastern Bangladesh, held a book launch for the Bangla edition of Tom Regan’s pamphlet,…
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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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About the Tom Regan Lecture 2018
You can now watch the first a short video about the Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture, with reflections from CAF board members, audience…
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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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Read about the first Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture
You can now read more about the firstAnnual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture, given by Carol J. Adams on September 21st, 2018 at North Carolina State University…
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Watch the First Annual Tom Regan Lecture
You can now watch the first Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture, given by Carol J. Adams on September 21st, 2018. She is the author of The Sexual Politics…
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Successful First Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture
On September 21st, 2018, Carol J. Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat and many other books, gave the first Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture at North Carolina…
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Translation of Tom Regan’s The Philosophy of Animal Rights
Rainer Ebert has overseen a translation of Tom Regan’s pamphlet, The Philosophy of Animal Rights, into Bangla.
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Syl Ko to Sign Books at the first Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture
We are excited to announce that Syl Ko, co-author of Aphro-ism, will be at the first Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture. She will join
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First Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture Happening this Month
Carol J. Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat and many other books, will give the first Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture at
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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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Meet CAF’s New Social Media Intern
CAF is pleased to announce that we’ve hired Karen Bowman as our social media intern. Karen will be connecting on Facebook, Twitter, and…
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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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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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New Issue of Between the Species about Tom Regan
Between the Species, a peer-reviewed electronic journal devoted to the philosophical examination of the relationship between human beings and other animals, just released…
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Board Member Named NIU Presidential Teaching Professor
Congratulations to board member, Mylan Engel Jr., who was just honored as the 2018 Northern Illinois University (NIU) Presidential Teaching Professor. Mylan teaches in the…
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The First Ever Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture Happening This Fall
Carol J. Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat and many other books, will give the first Annual Tom Regan…
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Watch the Tom Regan Memorial Panel from MAC4
CAF board member Kim Stallwood organized and spoke on the Tom Regan Memorial Panel, which took place at the Minding Animals Conference…
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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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Animal Welfare Materials being Digitized including Tom Regan Animal Rights Archive
The NCSU Libraries and the ASPCA have received a grant from the
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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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Compassion Arts & Culture and Animals Festival a Success
The Culture & Animals Foundation joined with Compassion Arts for the first Compassion Arts & Culture and Animals Festival at the…
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One More Week Until the Compassion Arts & Culture and Animals Festival!
We are excited that there is one week to go until the Compassion Arts & Culture and Animals Festival that we are putting on with
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In Memory of Tom Regan by Ana Cristina Ramirez
Ana Cristina Ramirez, Minding Animals’ International‘s partner in organizing the fourth conference in Mexico, in January 2018, has published a reflection (in Spanish) on Tom Regan: In…
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Join us at the Compassion Arts Festival
We are excited to announce the Festival that we are putting on in collaboration with Compassion Arts. Watch the video below of co-vice president Martin Rowe…
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Mohandas K. Gandhi and Tom Regan: Advocates for Animal Rights
Rainer Ebert wrote a piece about Mohandas Gandhi and Tom Regan. He wrote about Gandhi’s influence on Regan’s work advocating for animal rights. You can read more
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Tom Regan “In His Own Words” video
Robert Leonard made this video about Tom Regan that contains many of Tom’s words and writings. It’s a good way to either familiarize yourself with some of Tom’s work…
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