Artist News
Events & Announcements
Huang Ruo
Catwalk Institute proudly shares that composer Huang Ruo (Catwalk 2023) is celebrating the world premiere of his new opera, The Monkey King, at San Francisco Opera, which ran November 14–30, 2025, blending English and Mandarin, puppetry, martial arts, and a hybrid Eastern/Western score.
Jacinta Clusellas
Catwalk Institute proudly shares that composer and guitarist Jacinta Clusellas (Catwalk 2019 collaborator) continues the journey of her celebrated project AZUL, developed through institutions including Goodman Theatre and Goodspeed Musicals’ New Works programs, alongside ongoing work as a teaching artist and composer for stage and media.
https://playbill.com/article/songwriter-series-aker-clusellas-pandiani
A.A. Brenner
Catwalk Institute proudly shares that playwright A.A. Brenner (Catwalk 2022) is featured in the 2024–2025 New American Voices readings at Queens Theatre and in Brick Theater’s T4T Fest, amplifying trans voices through new plays and performances in New York City.
Tyson Reeder
Catwalk Institute proudly shares that painter Tyson Reeder (Catwalk 2018) continues to receive international attention, with his work included in the 2025 group exhibition Paper Matters at BB&M in Seoul among an intergenerational roster of artists working on paper.
https://www.gallerybbm.com/exhibitions/44-paper-matters/
Kamari Carter
Catwalk Institute proudly shares that sound and installation artist Kamari Carter (Catwalk 2020) presented his solo exhibition Vexillary at Microscope Gallery in Brooklyn, with the immersive sound-and-flag installation on view December 19, 2024–January 25, 2025, and highlighted in a Brown University feature.
https://microscopegallery.com/kamari-carter-vexillary/
Catwalk Institute proudly shares that musical theatre writer and composer Durra Leung (Catwalk 2021, 2023, 2024) has been awarded a fellowship at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, supporting the continued development of projects including Lullabies for Motherfckers*.
Catwalk Institute proudly shares that artist Jonah King (Catwalk 2016) has had a remarkable season, with his immersive project Honey Fungus featured in New York’s Neuromantics event, exhibited at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, and screened internationally at festivals including Ji.hlava, the Maryland Film Festival, VR Fest Mexico City, the Miami Tech Summit at Art Basel, and more—earning Best Virtual Reality Project from Digital Arts Zurich. King also published a new essay in Millennium Film Journal, co-directed the AI and XR symposium Synthetic Narratives, presented new work with his collective Blockbusters at the Museum of the Moving Image, and was featured by Design Observer, NPR, and the Associated Press for his contributions to immersive and AI-driven art.
https://jonahking.com/honeyfungus
Victoria Rivera
Catwalk Institute proudly shares that filmmaker Victoria Rivera (Catwalk 2022) continues to gain festival and industry recognition, with recent spotlights including Beyond the Short Film Festival and ongoing projects in narrative and documentary film.
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.
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