We at the Culture & Animals Foundation are delighted to announce our 2023 grantees. The image above represents only half of the 31 folks who've received a grant for their scholarship and artistry on behalf of animals. Click here for them all!

So, what's everyone doing? Namita Kandel and Gustavo Sanchez Lopez are, respectively, bringing theater to communities to advocate for vultures in Nepal and possums in Colombia. Sandra Jackson-Opoku and Nadja Lubiw-Hazard are writing children's books to protect manatees and mink respectively, and Kittie Mae Morris is dancing to save the dolphins. Scholars Victoria Simpson and Tereza Vandrovcova, and the Pickering brothers (via a documentary film), are trying to understand resistance to animal rights and vegan messages. 

Photographers Selene Magnolia and Patrick Lopez Jaimes are revealing life in the shadow of industrial animal agriculture—Selene in Europe; Patrick in Mexico. Artist Marta Bogdanska is exploring animal resistance in Poland, while filmmaker Forest McClymonds, street artist praxis vgz, and Ukrainian vegan activist  Tamara Ryzhenko are showing the inherent cruelty of dairy production. Fillmakers Jusep Moreno and Allison Argo are, respectively, focusing on bullfighting in Catalonia and documenting the building of a refuge for cows designed explicitly for their needs.

Marina Rosa is studying animals in the Brazilian constitution, while Marcia Truyenque is producing a course on animal law in Peru. Samantha Derrick is videoing plant-based pathmakers in Mexico and Latin America, and Jes Hooper is uncovering the grubby arrangements of the coffee civet cat and tourism industries.

Scholar Rebecca Shen is mapping animal pathways in Singapore; Jason Møller and his fellow activists are plastering Denmark with pro–animal rights messages; Amedeo Policante is examining the rewilding of the Italian alps; Emily Stone is querying prejudices among veterinarians over pets' plant-food diets; and Kay Stepkin is filming events at Chicago's Vegan Museum.

Last but not least are the curators: Ashley Capps and Allison Titus' volume of poetry; Sangamithra Iyer's website for writers centering the animal;  Elizabeth Tavella and Eva Spiegelhofer's website promoting animal studies; Jennifer Calkins' gathering of artists to mourn and celebrate species that have been listed as extinct this year; Vine Sanctuary's scholarship in residence; and publisher and artist Julia Feliz's resources for marginalized vegan activists.

Harvard historian of science Kat Poje (left), a 2022 Regan Research Fellow at North Carolina State University Libraries Animal Rights Archive, will lecture on "Humane Societies, Alternatives to Euthanasia, and Animal Experimentation in the Mid-Twentieth Century" on Monday April 24th from noon to 1 p.m. EST.  Kat's time in the archive, she observed in this article for CAF, redirected her research in fascinating ways. There is still time to apply for the 2023 Fellowship (deadline April 30th). Click here for more and to apply.

CAF board member Kim Stallwood will speak on "The Fight for Animal Rights" at the British Library in London on Tuesday May 16. He will be joined by film scholar Anat Pick, legal scholar Paula Sparks, and Jonathan Pledge, who is the lead curator at the British Library, where Kim's archives are on display. In preparation for the talk, Kim has written a blog (the first of four) for the British Library that highlight the contents of his archive, which forms an integral part of the British Library's exhibition "Animals: Art, Science and Sound" (Friday April 21–Monday August 28). Click on the link to get tickets to attend Kim's talk, whether in person or online.