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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.

20/10/2026

Here Now: Renato Cisneros is a Writing Fellow from Peru. As a journalist and writer, in his home country he has hosted current affairs programs on radio and television. His novel "La distancia que nos separa" (Editorial Planeta, 2015) has sold more than 80,000 copies in Peru alone and has been acclaimed by the Peruvian and international press. His most recent novel, "El mundo que vimos arder" (Alfaguara, 2023), was a finalist for the 2023 Alfaguara Prize. Renato currently lives in Madrid, Spain, where he is working on his next novel and teaching online creative writing classes.

Revisit Renato's recent presentation at the Castle on our Instagram profile now https://buff.ly/QW9ZYr5

📸 Photo by Natalia Freundt

20/10/2026

Here Now: Ryan Villamael is a Visual Arts Fellow from the Philippines. Based in Los Baños, his practice explores paper as a sculptural medium. Through meticulous paper-cutting, he engages with history, collective memory, and the layered relationships between nature, domestic space, and the urban landscape. A recipient of the CCP Thirteen Artists Award (2021), Ryan has exhibited internationally, including at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; The Armory Show, New York; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Para Site, Hong Kong; and Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong.

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1 - Pulô series XIX 2024 paper (map replica), vitrine 10h x 7.25d in • 25.4h x 18.4d cm
2 - Pulô series XVI 2024 paper (map replica), vitrine 55.25 x 33.125 x 18.375 in • 140.5 x 84 x 46.7 cm
3 - "Locus Amoenus", a continuing installation project since 2016, Locus Amoenus features a variable-sized map replica exploring idealized landscapes and the connection between place and memory
4 - "Behold A City", paper, archival photographs, mirror, size variable, 2019

19/10/2026

Here Now: Asia Freeman is a Director’s Guest from the USA and Mexico. Born in Mexico, Asia Freeman was raised in Alaska, fishing, wildcrafting, and making art. A painter and installation artist, she graduated from Yale and earned an MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Asia teaches visual art courses for the University of Alaska. She is the Artistic Director and founder of the multidisciplinary art space, Bunnell Arts at Tuggeht (Dena'ina) in Homer, Alaska. Asia curates touring exhibitions about cultural protection. She often collaborates on exhibitions with her spouse, filmmaker Michael Walsh. Her artwork is in Alaskan museums and collections worldwide.

Michael Walsh is a Director’s Guest from the USA. He has worked in moving image art since 1990 as a curator, archivist, and studio artist. He has curated moving image programs for San Francisco museums and micro-cinemas, Milwaukee’s urban meadows, Alaskan airplane hangars, and on mountain tops. He identifies with the avant-garde film practices of the 1960s and champions this tradition in programs interweaving 21st-century practices and philosophies. Recently, Michael was curator and archivist for the Walker Art Center’s moving image program. He often collaborates with his wife, Asia Freeman, on shared exhibitions.

📸 "Portal", 2026, by Asia Freeman, 8" x 12", oil on panel; photo of Michael by Jeff Rafalovich

19/10/2026

Here Now: NoViolet Bulawayo is a Writing Fellow from Zimbabwe and the USA. She is the author of the novels "Glory" and "We Need New Names". Her books have been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the International Literature Award; longlisted for the Women’s Prize and the Aspen Words Literary Prize; and won the PEN/ Hemingway Award, the LA Times Book Prize Art Seidenbaum Award for first fiction, and the Hurston/ Wright Legacy Award for fiction, among other honors. NoViolet grew up in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, and earned her MFA at Cornell University, where she currently teaches.

Read an excerpt from Booker shortlisted "Glory" now at https://buff.ly/5C0zAfr.

📸 Photo of NoViolet by Nye' Lyn Tho

14/10/2026

"Poetry &: born among mirrors, a rememory with Rachel Eliza Griffiths" is a living poem that centers the multidimensionality of Black embodiment and ritual as pathways to healing and joy. On Friday, October 16th at Dia Chelsea (537 West 22nd Street, New York, New York), join 2022 Civitella Director's Guest Rachel Eliza Griffiths and collaborator, flutist, composer Jane Rigler for a performance combining original experimental soundscapes of the natural world with poems, including those by Lucille Clifton, Roberta Flack, and Federico García Lorca.

The evening also features movement along with video projections that collapse the past, present, and future of a recovered spiritual and ancestral village. Participants are invited to witness and meditate in a space of bodily rhythm, imagery, and sound.

The artist would like to thank 2025 Civitella Writing Fellow Gioconda Belli for their assistance with the development of the piece.

Learn more and register for the event at https://buff.ly/dsMbca5!

📸 Photo by Rachel Eliza Griffiths, "interior with my flesh", 2025. © Rachel Eliza Griffiths. Courtesy the artist.

13/10/2026

Happy Pub Day to "The Best Kind of American: A True Story of Murder, War, and America’s Undoing in the Middle East" (Henry Holt and Co.) by Kim Ghattas (CRF 2019), one of The New York Times 29 non-fiction books to read this fall!

On sale today with starred reviews from Kirkus, Library Journal, and Booklist, Kim tells the story of four decades of US-Israel vs Iran confrontation, a geopolitical tragedy woven together with the human tragedy of the 1984 assassination of Malcolm Kerr, president of the American University of Beirut.

Civitella is proud to have been part of this book's creation; Kim returned to the Castle in 2025 after her 2019 residency to spend four and a half weeks outside of the Fellowship season working independently on this book.

Learn more and discover the full schedule of book events in October and November in the US and London, including tonight in NYC at https://buff.ly/9AazGG3.

08/10/2026

Are you or do you know someone looking for an introduction to working in a collaborative, exciting international arts setting? Apply for Civitella Ranieri's paid internship program for the 2027 residency season. Applications are due January 15, 2027.

Interns are a treasured and integral part of Civitella's community and daily life, living and working at the Castle for roughly twelve weeks between April and November. An ideal candidate will demonstrate an interest in cultural and linguistic exchange, media production, and nonprofit arts programming and management. Strong English proficiency is required, as is a valid driver's license. We give preference to individuals with the ability to drive stick shift, Italian language skills, and experience in the arts or study/work abroad.

Please visit our website for more details on the role and the application process, and to apply! https://buff.ly/acg98zt

07/10/2026

“Manifiesto del murmullo. (Murmur Manifesto.)”, a new solo exhibition by Ana Gallardo started at Civitella, centers on the work and memory of Ana’s mother, Carmen Gómez Raba, a painter working in Spain in the 1950s.

Ana revisits photographs of her mother’s paintings, enlarging and transforming them through digital processes before translating the resulting images into painting, embroidery, video, and installation. In the process, the original images become increasingly abstract, opening up a meditation on memory, absence, inheritance, and the ways images change as they are passed from one medium to another.

Manifiesto del murmullo continues Ana’s longstanding interest in overlooked histories, women’s lives, loss, and the forms of labor and memory that persist outside dominant narratives.

“Manifiesto del murmullo.” is on view now at La Oficina in Madrid, Spain. Learn more at the link in our bio.

📸 Photos of studio visit while in residence at Civitella with Advisory Council member Saverio Verini by Sabrina Tenteromano (Sabrina Tenteromano) . Installation photos courtesy of La Oficina.

02/10/2026

Zeina G. Halabi (CRF 2025) from Lebanon recounts connecting with fellow Writing Fellow Conchitina Cruz’s (CRF 2025) work during her presentation at the Castle last year—a spark that urged Zeina to translate her poem “The Wife,” part of Conchitina’s poetic-research project examining marriage in her home country of the Philippines, one of the few countries in the world that does not legally recognize divorce.

How did Zeina translate Conchitina’s poem, “to gauge the depth of this violence when transferred into Arabic,” when the alphabetical order the poet used in English was not feasible in Arabic? “I have given the poem a different guiding principle,” she says, “rewriting it while retaining the anguish, violence, and farce that Conchitina Cruz had envisioned in the original poem.”

In recognition of “the power of being understood,” the International Federation of Translators 2026 theme the week of International Translation Day, uncover Zeina’s process at https://buff.ly/3TSd8hI.

01/10/2026

“If you like rice, you’ll understand – Collective Noise” a solo cross-site exhibition, events program, and publication by Andrew Pierre Hart (CRF 2025) kicks off today in collaboration with iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) and Chelsea Space, Chelsea College of Arts, UArts (UAL).

The project draws on Stuart Hall’s cultural studies and pedagogical legacy to explore sound as a form of learning and cultural exchange. Bringing together painting, photography, moving image, text and sound, the project considers how knowledge travels through everyday practices, informal gatherings, and sonic experiences.

Developed through personal travel, artistic research, and ongoing engagement with iniva’s Stuart Hall Library in London, Andrew examines the relationship between sound and diasporic experiences, inviting audiences to reflect on how cultural knowledge is produced and shared across communities.

Upcoming events include The Listening Sweet, an evening of sound, collaboration and coming together on October 22nd; and TrAIN Open Lecture and Publication Launch on November 25th.

Learn more at https://civitella.org/if-you-like-rice-youll-understand-collective-noise-by-andrew-pierre-hart-solo-cross-site-exhibition-events-and-publication/.

📸 Portraits of Andrew by Marco Guilliarelli for Civitella Ranieri; video by Sabrina Tenteromano; project poster courtesy of the artist and iniva.

Andrew leading staff and fellow Fellows in a sound walk followed by a listening session and drawing workshop at Civitella during his residency.

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