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Marla Stone, docente di Storia Moderna Europea all’Occidental College e Rome Prize Fellow 1996 per gli Studi Umanistici Post-Classici, sarà la prossima Andrew W. Mellon Humanities Professor presso l’American Academy in Rome.

L’AAR è oltremodo grata di riaprire per l’ennesima stagione e dare il benvenuto alla nostra nuova classe di vincitori del Rome Prize e Italian Fellows nella Città Eterna.

L’American Academy in Rome è lieta di annunciare la sua lista di residenti per il 2021.

L’American Academy in Rome ricorda l’artista Jackie Saccoccio (Fellow 2005), scomparsa il 4 dicembre.

La fotografa Carole Raddato ha donato il nucleo della sua vasta collezione, circa 30.000 immagini digitali, alla Biblioteca AAR per garantirne la conservazione a lungo termine e l’accesso continuo agli studiosi.

La biblioteca dell’Accademia Americana di Roma riaprirà agli studiosi il 2 novembre.

Marilyn Hernández, vicecapo responsabile dello sviluppo per le donazioni individuali al Metropolitan Museum of Art, è il nuovo vicepresidente dell’Accademia per lo sviluppo.

Sanjaya Thakur, professore associato e presidente del Dipartimento di studi classici del Colorado College, è stata nominata direttrice della Scuola estiva classica dell'AAR.

Matthew Brennan is the 2020 Booth Family Rome Prize Fellow in Historic Preservation and Conservation and a PhD candidate in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University in Bloomington.

Parrish Elizabeth Wright is a PhD candidate in the Interdepartmental Program in Greek and Roman History at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Encounters I and II are part of a year-long series of events commemorating the institution’s 125th anniversary. The exhibitions trace only a few representative examples of the many interdisciplinary encounters fostered by the Academy from 1948 to the present.

This year, fellowships were awarded to twenty-two North American and two Italian artists and scholars, who will each receive a stipend, workspace, and room and board for a period of five to seven months at the Academy’s eleven-acre campus in Rome.

In the midst of a global pandemic that has disproportionately affected communities of color, racially motivated violence is a reminder that systemic racism still persists.

A video installation by the preservationist Matthew Brennan and the designer Eugenia Morpurgo, on view during Cinque Mostre 2020 earlier this year, featured a condensed version of their vision of a landscape after 2,100 years of climate change.

In celebration of the Academy’s 125th anniversary, the exhibitions Encounters I: Abstracting Rome and Encounters II: The Activist Gesture investigate the enduring impact of the city of Rome as a dynamic creative laboratory through a series of interdisciplinary exchanges.

Encounters I identifies the abstracting techniques resulting from three historic encounters; the second part traces how those techniques are employed in recent contemporary works responding to pressing social and political issues in the United States.

Pairing the artist Julie Mehretu and the architect J. Meejin Yoon, Encounters II explores the role of abstract forms and gestural mark making as indices and agents of social and political change in contemporary American society.

Nancy Millar O’Boyle, a member of the American Academy in Rome’s Board of Trustees from 1985 to 2011, died on March 25, 2020. She was one week shy of her 89th birthday.

In consideration of the safety of those residing in Rome and the institution as a whole, we have made the difficult decision to close the Academy’s campus on April 3.