Past Events

Fellow Shoptalks are a forum in which Rome Prize winners, Italian Fellows, and Affiliated Fellows present their work to each other and to the public. Shoptalks are occasionally streamed live on Zoom and posted to the Academy’s YouTube channel.

At this seminar, seven experts with seven different visions, seven different relationships with the pines of Rome will discuss the future of the landscape and the shape of the city.

This talk will consider the distressing “first wave” of COVID-19 when Lombardy, Italy’s wealthiest region, surprised the world by becoming the global epicenter of the pandemic.

Fellow Shoptalks are a forum in which Rome Prize winners, Italian Fellows, and Affiliated Fellows present their work to each other and to the public. Shoptalks are occasionally streamed live on Zoom and posted to the Academy’s YouTube channel.

The American Academy in Rome hosted its New York Gala on Thursday, November 2, 2023, at the Altman Building.

Fellow Shoptalks are a forum in which Rome Prize winners, Italian Fellows, and Affiliated Fellows present their work to each other and to the public. Shoptalks are occasionally streamed live on Zoom and posted to the Academy’s YouTube channel.

The American Academy in Rome will host a special concert at the Villa Aurelia dedicated to the Pines of Rome, in recognition of the beauty they share, the symbolic force of their presence, and the shade and shadow they provide. 

Adam Yarinsky, 2024 William A. Bernoudy Architect in Residence, will deliver a lecture entitled “Art, Architecture and Place.” 

Please join us on Wednesday, October 18, for an online Rome Prize Information Session, taking place on Zoom. All prospective Rome Prize applicants are welcome. 

The artist Mel Chin (2024 Resident) will select from a diverse body of actions and artworks from social practice, installations, paintings, sculptures to exquisitely crafted objects to respond to some of the investigations of Rome Prize Fellows and Residents.