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L.M. Bogad Awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency

L.M. Bogad has been awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency on Lake Como, Italy, for summer 2025.
For over 60 years, The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center has brought together a diverse, multifaceted group of residents and conveners from around the globe to share their knowledge, ideas, and strategies. Their combined vision, ingenuity, and experience can transform ideas into action that define our present and shape our future.
Every year, the Bellagio Center provides approximately 100 leaders from around the world with month-long residencies to advance their specific breakthrough projects while engaging with a globally diverse community. Former residents include: Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, renowned authors Maya Angelou and Michael Ondaatji, and international policy makers such as Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Mary Robinson, and Montek Ahluwalia.
Bogad Awarded Wolfsonian Creative Fellowship.

L.M. Bogad has been awarded a 2025 Creative Fellowship at the Wolfsonian in Miami Beach, a museum, research center and library affiliated with Florida International University. While in residence, he will have access to their excellent archive of Spanish Civil War-era related sculpture, industrial design, posters and other printed matter and archival material. Bogad will be working on adapting his award winning screenplay, Orwell’s War, to a stage play, and access to this unique collection, and the chance to work with the staff at the Wolfsonian-FIU, is a invaluable opportunity.
Photo Credit: Ramon Gabarrós

Mondo Bizarro’s Zoom Production of
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Dec 15-17th 2021
Bogad and North Bay Jobs With Justice Awarded Creative Work Fund and Creative Corps Grants for SINFONIA DE LA JUSTICIA, a performance project made by, for, and about farmworkers and organizers in Northern California.
I’m so grateful to announce that I’ve been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2021. It’s a wonderful surprise, and I’m honored to be on the same list with people I deeply respect—artists and scholars including Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle, Dread Scott, Rebecca Schneider, Debarati Sanyal, and many more.
As the USDAC’s newly declared Minister of Tactical Performance, I’ve been working to address the creative needs of communities and culture workers through projects such as Economusic and Delivering Democracy.
My work is featured in the “New Situationists” Exhibit on Pro Arts Gallery on Frank Ogawa Plaza, downtown Oakland. It’s right by the 12th Street BART station, easy to get to, perfect to check out on a lunch break: 150 Frank H Ogawa Plaza, Oakland, CA 94612.The exhibit is open until April 28, Tuesdays through Fridays, 12-6pm. Would love to know what you think about it. Here’s the link to the exhibit. There are some great subversive and troublemaking artists on display for you to check out.
I’m pleased to announce the launch of my podcast, THE PLAGUE. It’s a podcast where we look, not just at the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, but at our nation’s home-made plagues, plagues created by human socioeconomic systems, that make the coronavirus more virulent and dangerous.