Catwalk Institute proudly welcomes Jacob Rivkin, a Philadelphia-based artist and animator developing a cyanotype-animated film inspired by Hudson River School compositions and natural forms.
Jacob Rivkin
Jacob Rivkin
Jacob Rivkin (he/him) is a Philadelphia-based artist and animator whose work explores landscape, memory, and wonder. His animations have appeared on PBS’s Great Performances and at venues including the Japan Media Arts Festival and Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington. A past fellow of the Fine Arts Work Center, the Wassaic Project, and a Fulbright recipient, he is creating a cyanotype-animated film at Catwalk inspired by Hudson River School paintings and natural forms.
https://jacobrivkin.com/
Affiliation: Vassar
Summer Session #2
June 11 - June 29
Catwalk Institute proudly welcomes Dr. Katie Duarte, a scholar whose work explores Afro-Latinx identity, gender, and race through the lens of cultural expression and the politics of natural hair.
Katie Milagros Duarte
Katie Milagros Duarte
Dr. Katie Duarte is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Latin American & Latino/a Studies at Smith College whose research explores gender, race, and identity among Afro-Latinx and Latinx communities. Her current project examines the cultural politics of curly hair and the natural hair movement among Dominicans in New York City and Santo Domingo.
https://katieduarte.com/
Affiliation: Vassar
Summer Session #2
June 11 - June 29
Catwalk Institute proudly welcomes Apa Agbayani, a Filipino writer-director based in New York, who is developing a new feature screenplay that explores time, distance, and connection.
Apa Agbayani
Apa Agbayani
Apa Agbayani is a Filipino writer-director based in New York; he’s working through his feelings with magic. Apa started out directing music videos for indie artists in the Philippines then continued towards films. He’s finishing a Film MFA (Screenwriting & Directing) at Columbia University. At the Catwalk Art Residency, he plans to complete a draft of his feature screenplay Between the Flights, an exploration of time, space, labor, and loneliness through the intersecting lives of two Filipina flight attendants who share a flat in Hong Kong but never see each other in it.
Affiliation: Columbia
Summer Session #2
June 11 - June 29
Catwalk Institute proudly welcomes Robbie Trocchia, a New Jersey-born artist, performer, and writer developing new scripts exploring family, myth, and experimental form.
Robbie Trocchia
Robbie Trocchia
Robbie Trocchia is a New Jersey-born artist, performer, and writer. He received a BA from Vassar College in 2014 and an MFA from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2024. During his residency at Catwalk, he will develop two writing projects: an experimental screenplay emerging from a recent collaboration with his mother and a performance script for an ongoing project about the biblical figure of Samson.
