Open Studios 2025
The American Academy in Rome invites the public to experience the work of its Rome Prize and Italian Fellows during Summer Open Studios. This special event offers a rare opportunity to step inside the studios and shared spaces of the McKim, Mead & White Building, where Fellows have been developing their research over the past year.
These practices span a wide range—from the different effects of climate change to the ravaging effects of wildfires to intimate explorations of fertility, and from communities of Roman makers to a vibrant chorus of writers and readers. Projects rethink playgrounds and reimagine Rome’s urban fabric through photography; they map the Roman Forum and consistently survey Renaissance book bindings. Artists create new landscapes in this given setting and use spices, plants, and bodies into spaces and canvases; they revive old printing techniques while intervening conceptually throughout the spaces of the American Academy.
Open to the public and shared globally through the Academy’s social media channels, the event marks the culmination of a dynamic year of creativity and exchange. It is both a celebration of artistic accomplishment and a window into the vibrant community fostered by the Academy’s 2024–25 Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows.
Architecture
Michelle Jaja Chang
David Costanza
Giuseppe Grant
Design
Historic Preservation and Conservation
Katherine L. Beaty
Krupali Krusche
Landscape Architecture
Literature
Musical Composition
Visual Arts
Monia Ben Hamouda
Lex Brown
Matthew Connors
Devon Dikeou
Richard Mosse
Clarissa Tossin
Performances
18.15 - 19.00
Jonah Haven, laugh radish, 10 minutes
Jen Shyu, La Mancanza del Futuro (The Missing of the Future), 20 minutes
19.15 - 19.30
Selby Wynn Schwartz readings from the project “At that time we were not called anything and so we cherished every word*”
20.00 - 20.40
Jonah Haven, laugh radish, 10 minutes
Jen Shyu, La Mancanza del Futuro (The Missing of the Future), 20 minutes
20.45 - 21.00
Lex Brown, songs from recent operas
For access to the Academy, guests will be asked to show a valid photo ID. Backpacks and luggage with dimensions larger than 40 x 35 x 15 cm (16 x 14 x 6 in.) are not permitted on the property. There are no locker facilities available. You may not bring animals (with the exception of seeing-eye/guide dogs).
The Academy is accessible to wheelchair users and others who need to avoid stairs. Please email us at events@aarome.org if you or someone in your party uses a wheelchair or other mobility devices so that we can ensure the best possible visitor experience. If you are someone with a disability or medical condition that may require special accommodation, please also email us at events@aarome.org.