Far Afield

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s School of Architecture and Planning has appointed Nicholas de Monchaux (2014 Fellow, 2000 Affiliated Fellow) to head the Department of Architecture, beginning July 2020.

Holly Flora (2011 Fellow) was awarded the Premio San Francesco from the Pontifical University of Saint Anthony (Antonianum) in Rome for her book Cimabue and the Franciscans (2018).

Oberlin Music has released Late Air, a compact disc of musical compositions by John Harbison (1981 Fellow) and sung by the soprano Kendra Colton.

Phu Hoang and Rachely Rotem (2017 Fellows) collaborated with Eric Forman Studio to create Heart Squared, a public art installation in New York’s Times Square, organized by Times Square Arts and the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

The visual artist Nari Ward (2013 Fellow) and two current Rome Prize winners in musical composition, Courtney Bryan and Pamela Z, have received 2020 fellowships from United States Artists.

An exhibition at Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning will present prints by the renowned architectural storyteller Douglas Darden (1989 Fellow).

Maya Maskarinec (2014 Fellow) has won a 2020 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities for her project, “Domesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome.”

Later this month the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute of Contemporary Art will open Everything That’s Alive Moves, a solo exhibition of work by 2019 Fellow Karyn Olivier that includes pieces conceived of and created during her Fellowship year.

City of Saints: Rebuilding Rome in the Early Middle Ages by 2014 Fellow Maya Maskarinec has won the Hagiography Society’s 2019 Book Prize.

Marlon Blackwell (2019 Resident) has been awarded the 2020 Gold Medal by the American Institute of Architects.

Lei Liang (2012 Fellow) has received the University of Louisville’s 2020 Grawemeyer Award in Music Composition for A Thousand Mountains, A Million Streams, a work for orchestra that premiered in 2018.

Sharrona Pearl has reviewed Face: A Visual Odyssey, a new MIT Press book by 2010 Resident Jessica Helfand, for Public Books.

The composer and pianist Yehudi Wyner (1956 Fellow, 1991 Resident) describes his Rome Prize experience to the Boston Musical Intelligencer: “It changed the path of my thinking.”

Engineering the Eternal City: Infrastructure, Topography, and the Culture of Knowledge in the Late Sixteenth-Century Rome (2018) by Pamela O. Long (2004 Fellow) has won the American Catholic Historical Association’s 2019 Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize.

Stephanie Frampton, associate professor of literature and a 2014 Fellow in ancient studies, has earned tenure in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress has awarded commissions for new musical works to four composers, including Erin Gee (2008 Fellow), George E. Lewis (2010 Resident), and David Sanford (2003 Fellow).

Two Rome Prize Fellows, Walter Hood (1997) and Emily Wilson (2006), have won 2019 MacArthur Foundation Fellowships.

Katie Larson, a 2016 Fellow in modern Italian studies, has recently joined Baylor University’s Art and Art History Department as assistant professor.

Rustin Levenson (2015 Resident) led the conservation of Sandro Botticelli and Domenico Ghirlandaio’s Coronation of the Virgin (ca. 1492), in the collection of the Bass Museum of Art in Florida.

John Kelly (2007 Fellow) will be premiering a new work, Underneath the Skin, at the Skirball Center at New York University on October 11 and 12, 2019. Underneath the Skin is a new solo work of dance and theater drawn from the life of the societal and sexual maverick Samuel Steward (1909–1993).