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Founded in 1995, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation is an artist residency program that has hosted over 1,200 Fellows and Director's Guests at its 15th century castle in Umbria.

18/06/2026

In 2014, Civitella Fellows and Director’s Guests created a fund for future Fellows in need of support.

The Fellows' Fund is still going strong more than a decade later. It has helped numerous Fellows, enabling them to participate in weekly excursions, purchase materials, cover fees for visas, manage emergencies, and handle other unforeseen expenses.

Over the history of the Fund, more than 40 Fellows have relied on this support.

"By covering expenses that would have otherwise been out of reach, Civitella gave me the freedom and peace of mind to focus on my creative work. I felt consistently supported. I am profoundly grateful for the Foundation's sensitivity and the genuine care they extend to every fellow."

Please help us meet our goal of $5,000 to replenish the Fund. Every penny goes directly to supporting Fellows in need. Make a one-time or monthly tax-deductible donation now at https://buff.ly/945aWUq.

11/06/2026

Happy pub week to "Cat Love" (Pantheon) by Tomás Q. Morin (CRF 2023)! The novel, set in Los Angeles with a special appearance from Civitella's setting of Umbria, is praised by Kirkus Reviews as "inventive, erudite, funny, and devastating".

The indelible cat heroine of this unexpected tale recalls her life with “the Mustache,” her beloved owner. Trapped in a one-way mirrored box, displayed in a classroom for people who are training to become “Emotional Support Humans,” she describes them with poignant and witty flair as they consider what they feel about her. Meanwhile, the mystery of her cat-kidnapping is revealed to us, along with her potential next move on a more spectral plane.

An elegy to freedom, dignity, and connection for all living beings, the book stirs powerful feelings in the reader as it shows us to ourselves from the other side of the mirror.

Tomás, the author of several books as well as the translator of "The Heights of Macchu Picchu" by Pablo Neruda, kicks off his book tour in Texas tomorrow, June 11th and June 12th at Interabang Books and Bibliobar, in partnership with Second Chance SPCA—shelter cats up for adoption! Learn more at the link in our bio.

Images
Book cover courtesy of the artist
Tomás at Civitella by Marco Giugliarelli

10/06/2026

The second group of Fellows of the 2026 season arrived and are beginning to discover the wonders of Civitella and their cohort.

Join us next week to welcome them and for a chance to get to know their work: Civitella will open its doors on Monday, June 15th for its traditional Brief Presentations by Fellows and Director’s Guests in residence. Enjoy refreshments starting at 5:30 PM, with presentations beginning at 5:45 PM CEST at the Castle / 11:45 AM EDT here on Instagram Livestream. Visit the following link to view the list of presenters and RSVP now: https://civitella.org/at-the-castle-2026-group-2-brief-presentations/

03/06/2026

As Fatimah Asghar prepares to leave the Castle with the rest of her fellow Fellows in Group 1, her short film "Anatomy of a f*boy" is on its way to its world premiere on June 5th at the Brooklyn Film Festival in New York City!

Fatimah writes, "I was really taken by wanting to write something that has moments of levity, but also something that moves past a binary system of good and bad/ victim and villain... I wanted to create something that is situated deeply in q***r community and q***r anxieties—cancel culture, restorative justice, nonbinary identity and how we learn and unlearn toxic gender dynamics, and manipulation."

Fatimah is the writer, director and one of the producers; and the cast and crew, like Fatimah, was heavily Muslim and Q***r. "We relied on our communities to make this film,” she writes.

Learn more, watch the trailer, and get tickets at https://buff.ly/k72xCjr.

02/06/2026

Civitella is pleased to share Lara Baladi‘s (CRF 2025) latest solo exhibition "Z FOR ZARAFA," comprised of work she created during her Civitella residency last year, opens tonight, June 2nd, in Cairo, Egypt.

Emerging from "Anatomy of Revolution," her monumental web-based ABC of global revolts, the exhibition unfolds at Gypsum, her first solo show with the gallery, through a new body of multimedia works spanning tapestry, photography, web-art and sculptural installations.

For Lara, the letter Z for Zarafa (“Zain” in Arabic) serves as an entry into the "ABC of Anatomy of Revolution", tracing intertwined histories of migration, diplomatic exchange, and revolutions.

The exhibition is accompanied by "The Anatomist," a publication co-produced by Gypsum and launched on the occasion of the exhibition.

There will be an opening reception tonight from 7 to 9 PM and the show will run through September 23rd, 2026.

01/06/2026

Here Now: Mathias Énard is a Writing Fellow from France. He has won several awards, including the Prix du Livre Inter and the Prix Décembre. Since he's been at Civitella, he won the 70th Ceppo Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Italian translation of his book "Mélancolie des confins. Nord" by Yasmina Melaouah. For "Compass," he won the 2015 Prix Goncourt, the 2017 Leipziger Book Award for European Understanding, and was shortlisted for the 2017 International Booker Prize. Mathias's most recent novel, "The Deserters," translated by C. Mandell, was longlisted for the 2026 International Booker.

In addition to traveling across Italy while in residence to deliver presentations for the Premio Ceppo and Premio Gregor von Rezzori, Mathias did a talk and book signing at Salone del Libro in Turin, and delivered a special talk with CaLibro, as well as Encuentro Festival.

Subscribe to our newsletter at the link in our bio to keep up with future events and stories about Civitellians—the next one, featuring Mathias, hits inboxes June 8th!

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1 - Profile photo of Mathias by Pierre Marquès
3 - Mathias at Salone del Libro
4 - Mathias at CaLibro via

30/05/2026

Here Now: Wantanee Siripattananuntakul is a Visual Arts Fellow from Thailand. Based in Bangkok, Wantanee works across video, installation, sound, sculpture, and text. Drawing on field research and site-based observation, her practice explores interspecies perception and the forces that shape life across human and more-than-human worlds.

29/05/2026

Here Now: Mihret Sibhat is a Writing Fellow from Ethiopia and the USA. Her debut novel, "The History of a Difficult Child," won a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. A graduate of the University of Minnesota’s MFA program in Creative Writing, she was a recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative grant. Her essays have appeared in the LA Times, The Paris Review [Daily], LitHub, and Electric Literature. She is currently revising her second novel, "The Door of No Refund".

Catch up on all of the presentations from Group 1 Fellows, including Mihret, on our profile and subscribe to our newsletter below to keep up with future events and stories about Civitellians—the next one hits inboxes June 8th!

https://buff.ly/1XgCbCn

29/05/2026

Emily Jacir’s (CRF 2009) debut solo exhibition in India, "Where We Come From," asks Palestinians in its titular work “If I could do anything for you, anywhere in Palestine, what would it be?” The show, which runs for one more week through June 6th at Experimenter - Hindustan Road in Kolkata, is a document of the resulting tasks.

Learn more at https://buff.ly/duVPjKz.

28/05/2026

Here Now: David Baker is a Director’s Guest from the USA. As a poet, literary editor, critic, and educator based in Granville, Ohio, and Hudson, New York, he has authored many books of poetry and poetry commentary, most recently "Transit" (poems, W. W. Norton, 2026), "Whale Fall" (poems, W.W. Norton, 2022), and as editor, "Collected Poems of Stanley Plumly" (W.W. Norton, 2025). His work appears in such journals as The Atlantic, The Nation, New York Times, The New Yorker, Poetry, and has been translated into Romanian, French, Spanish, Chinese, and Italian.

Tune in for David, Mihret Sibhat, and Page Starzinger's presentations at the Castle and livestreamed here on Instagram at 6 PM CEST/12 PM EDT.

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