Artist News
Events & Announcements
Paul McAdory
Paul McAdory has just published the piece he began drafting during the early days of his Catwalk residency. His new essay, Cracked Actor: Keanu Reeves, is now available through Metrograph. You can read the full piece at: https://metrograph.com/cracked-actor-keaunu-reeves/.
Paul sends warm holiday wishes and continues to share updates on his writing at paulmcadory.com.
Natalie Beall
Natalie Beall is presenting new work with Morgan Lehman Gallery at Untitled Art Miami Beach, Booth C29, on view December 2–7. Featured in the presentation is Utility Suite (Pleate) (2025), a paper-and-adhesive work documented by Pierre Le Hors. For collectors and visitors, preview inquiries may be directed to art@morganlehmangallery.com.
Closer to home, Natalie’s work is also included in A Gnawing Thought, opening December 6 at Utopia in the Hudson Valley. Curated by Mandolyn Wilson Rosen, the exhibition features 18 New York–based artists whose works explore asymmetry, tension, and subtle shifts that resist binary structures.
Rounding out the season, Natalie will participate in the GLÖGG Glogg Artist Pop-Up Sale in Woodstock, NY, December 12–14. She will offer several 8 x 6 inch collage studies—including Utility Suite Study (Pellette) (2025)—available both onsite and online at special holiday pricing.
E.B. Bartels
E.B. Bartels’s book Good Grief: On Loving Pets, Here and Hereafter—first published in hardcover in 2022—has just been released in paperback on November 11, 2025 by Mariner Books (HarperCollins). This new edition brings her heartfelt exploration of pet loss and love to an even wider audience.
E.B. credits her 2018 Catwalk residency as the place where the very first chapters of Good Grief began, written in the attic tower while reflecting on her beloved dogs, fish, and birds.
Learn more at ebbartels.com, or watch the short documentary by filmmaker Amber Celletti for a behind-the-scenes look at the book’s creation.
Rona Siddiqui
Rona has had an extraordinary creative trajectory since 2018. Their work has received major recognition, including a Grammy nomination, Kleban Prize, Jonathan Larson Grant, Mark O'Donnell Prize, Billie Burke Ziegfeld Award, ASCAP Harold Adamson Lyric Award, and an Obie Award.
They made their Off-Broadway debut as composer/lyricist with Hip Hop Cinderella at the New Victory. Their show THE BROWN MUSICAL: A New Brown Musical (formerly Salaam Medina: Tales of a Halfghan) continues development with a two-week movement workshop at Playwrights Horizons’ New Works Lab and a concert at 54 Below.
Hawkins also writes for The Democracy Chain and Visual Art Source, with recent work in The Missouri Review, Brevity, Bridge, Minerva Rising Press, and Lover’s Eye Press. She teaches creative writing at Loyola University and art writing at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Huang Ruo
Kelsey Shwetz
Anne Elizabeth Moore
Catwalk Institute proudly celebrates alumna Marion Spencer for a rich season of creative exploration and performance. This summer, Marion premiered ALONE TOGETHER, her MFA thesis at NYU Tisch—a poignant, multidisciplinary ensemble work delving into memory, longing, and connection through movement, music, text, and projection. She also presented SYMPHONY, a solo piece developed with support from Catwalk Institute, Turkeyland Cove Foundation, and NYU Tisch Dance. This deeply personal work draws on ancestral memory and climate grief, weaving text and embodied movement into a compelling reflection on resilience and transformation.
Earlier this year, Marion continued to develop h o r i z o n in-development, an ensemble work examining shared experience and interconnection, performed at venues including Judson Memorial Church and NYU Tisch. Her thoughtful, rigorous practice continues to inspire and evolve—and we are honored to be part of her artistic journey.
Read more in her full summer update: https://mailchi.mp/700a2d96e11e/early-summer-update?e=d1a8ad2121
Image: C.C. Ann Chen, Whereabouts, pen and tape on paper, 2025
We’re thrilled to share exciting news from Catwalk alum C. C. Ann Chen!
Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago presents Whereabouts, a solo exhibition of Chen’s expansive and precarious assemblages. This cross-disciplinary body of work responds to local bodies of water in the Chicago area, continuing her long-term exploration of landscape and place.
Congratulations, C. C. Ann Chen—we look forward to more audiences experiencing your powerful and immersive work!
Exhibition Dates: May 24 - July 5, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 24, 1 - 4 pm
Exhibition Walk-Through & Conversation: Saturday, June 14, 1-2 pm
Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago
located in Mana Contemporary
2233 S. Throop St., Unit 419
Chicago, IL 60608
IG: @tsa_chi
Congratulations to Anna Jastrzembski on her recent feature in the New England Review’s Staff Reader Profiles!
We’re thrilled to see Anna’s thoughtful perspective and deep commitment to new work and dramatic writing recognized by NER. Her reflections on humility, collaboration, and the purpose of art echo the spirit of Catwalk’s own mission.
