Open Studios offer the public an opportunity to visit the studios of the current Rome Prize Fellows and Italian Fellows in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, design, historic preservation and conservation, and visual arts and to attend readings by the Rome Prize Fellows in literature and musical performances by the Rome Prize Fellows and Italian Fellow in musical composition.

Participants in the Open Studios are: Ila Beka, Erin Besler and Marcel Sanchez Prieto in architecture; Dylan Fracareta and Amy Franceschini in design; Zaneta Hong and Michael Saltarella in landscape architecture; Joannie Bottkol and Lori Wong in historic preservation and conservation; Nicolas Leong, Renato Leotta, Invernomuto, Helen O’Leary, Karyn Olivier, and Basil Twist in visual arts; Kirstin Valdez Quade, Bennett Sims, and Virginia Virilli in literature; and Michelle Lou and Jessie Marino in musical composition.

Additionally, the exhibition The Academic Body will be open in the AAR gallery from 7:00 to 10:00pm.

Musical performances at Open Studios 2019 are made possible by the Fromm Music Foundation and the Aaron Copland Fund for Music.