Oct 24 2023
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Bellagio Residency: May 2023 Project: "Seasonal Adversities: An Ekphrastic Graphic Poetry Collaboration" Joel M. Toledo is an award-winning author and poet who has published five books of poems, and whose work have …
Oct 24 2023
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Bellagio Residency: May 2023 Project: "Future Love Paradise" Edie Emanuela Meidav is an award winning author whose novels have garnered the Kafka Prize, Bard Fiction Prize, and the Howard Prize. She came …
Oct 24 2023
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Bellagio Residency: April 2023 Project: "Homelands: The Women of Omotaara" Molara Wood is an award-winning writer, journalist, critic, editor and speechwriter. Described as ‘one of the eminent voices in the Arts in …
Oct 24 2023
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Bellagio Residency: April 2023 Project: "Blank Noise. I Never Ask For It. Meet To Sleep" Jasmeen Patheja is an award-winning public service artist, whose practice involves designing interventions for collective action to …
Oct 24 2023
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Bellagio Residency: April 2023 Project: "SWISH SWASH" Sungi Mlengeya is a self-taught visual artist who primarily creates minimalist paintings with a curious use of negative space in commemoration of women who surround …
Oct 24 2023
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Bellagio Residency: March 2023 Project: "Consutura negra | Costureras negras | Black seamstresses" Gloriann Sacha Antonetty-Lebrón is an award-winning writer, communication strategist, social justice activist, and professor. She is the Founder, CEO, …
Oct 24 2023
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Bellagio Residency: March 2023 Project: "I, Jatu" Amanda Gorman is the youngest Presidential inaugural poet in U.S. history and a committed advocate for the environment, racial equality, and gender justice. She came …
Oct 24 2023
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Bellagio Residency: March 2023 Project: "Coming, Being, Going: Stories" Diana Evans is a critically acclaimed British author of Nigerian and English descent and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her …
Oct 24 2023
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Bellagio Residency: March 2023 Projects: "Voices" and "Janis Ian & The Art of Song" Varda Bar-Kar is an award-winning director and “artivist” filmmaker focused on telling meaningful stories exploring the breadth and …
Oct 24 2023
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Bellagio Residency: March 2023 Project: "No Nation For Muslim Women" Sabika Abbas is a translator, as well as a performance poet, feminist activist, and alternative educator whose work revolves around feminist and …