The Academy recently checked in with the visual artist Sheila Pepe, who returned to the US in January following her half-term fellowship.

AAR’s Photographic Archive has created two significant digital collections now accessible through the Digital Humanities Center: the Conlin Collection and the Fasti Archaeologici Photo Collection.

Seven artists and scholars with ties to the American Academy in Rome have been named 2025 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellows—an enduring sign of the Academy’s creative reach and influence.