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CAMRA Members in the News

Made by students, ‘Our Philadelphia’ offers a look at how boys talk about gun violence - article in Billy Penn about CAMRA Member Nora Gross' collaborative documentary short, July 30, 2020

Sachs Grantee Jasmine Blanks Jones Teaches New Public Health Studies Course This Fall - news from the Sachs Program for Arts Innovation about a Fall 2020 course taught by CAMRA Member Jasmine Blanks Jones, July 30, 2020
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How Artists Are Trying to Solve the World’s Problems - article in the New York Times highlighting CAMRA Member Roopa Vasudevan's work, July 15, 2020
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Scholarship through the lens of an iconic media brand - article about CAMRA Advisor John Jackson's course about HBO, involving several CAMRA Fellows, in Penn Today, June 2, 2020

Theater stopped misinformation during the Ebola crisis. The arts might help beat this pandemic - article about CAMRA Member Jasmine Blanks Jones' multimodal work in Penn Today, May 8, 2020

Juan Castrillón’s ‘Re-Covering the Ney Collection’ - article about CAMRA Member Juan Castrillon's  multimodal project in Penn Today, April 17, 2020

‘Cultural Storytelling is Necessary in Order to Change Policy’ - article about CAMRA Member Melissa Skolnick-Noguera in SP2 News, April 16, 2020

Seeing life through their eyes - article about the film, Making Sweet Tea, directed by CAMRA Member Nora Gross and CAMRA Advisor John Jackson in Penn Today, September 27, 2019

CAMRA Members Getting Grants

CAMRA Members have recently received several grants from the Sachs Program for Arts Innovation:

2020 Awards:

  • Farrah Rahaman and Tshay Williams for "Witness"
  • Roopa Vasudevan for “Machine Readable”
  • Bethany Monea for "First Gen Stories: A Web Series"

2019 Awards:
  • CAMRA for the 2020 Screening Scholarship Media Festival
  • Center for Experimental Ethnography for "Grounds that Shout! (And Others Merely Shaking)"
  • Jasmine Blanks Jones for "Health Messaging in Africa: Public Performance and Community Health Education"
  • Nora Gross for "Our Philadelphia”
Header photo by Eric Sucar for Penn Today
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