Far Afield

The 2016 Booth Family Rome Prize winner Bryony Roberts will present her new publication, Tabula Plena: Forms of Urban Preservation, at the Venice Biennale on May 26 (4:00pm at Nordic Pavilion, Giardini, Venice).

Congratulations to Trustee and 1998 Fellow Mary Margaret Jones and Hargreaves Associates, which was awarded the 2016 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Landscape Architecture.

Facts on the Ground, an exhibition of new work by Shimon Attie, a 2002 Rome Prize Fellow, opens at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York on April 28.

Congratulations to 2012 Fellow Matt Donovan on the publication of a series of essays written during his fellowship, A Cloud of Unusual Size and Shape: Meditations on Ruin and Redemption (Trinity University Press).

Shimon Attie, a 2002 Rome Prize Fellow in visual arts, will discuss his new monograph and current exhibition Facts on the Ground at the New York Public Library on May 10, 2016.

The 2015 Rome Prize winner Christopher Cerrone will premiere his Los Angeles Philharmonic–commissioned The Pieces That Fall to Earth on March 24 at Roulette in Brooklyn, New York.

Congratulations to Fellows and Residents who have been elected as members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters!

The work of Corin Hewitt, a 2015 Rome Prize Fellow in visual arts, is featured in group show, In a Field With No Bounds, in Burlington, Vermont.

The 2000 Fellow Wendy Kaplan will host a panel discussion at the UCLA Hammer Museum called “Crafted at Black Mountain: Skill, De-Skill, and Contemporary Art Practice” on Thursday, March 24, 2016.

AAR congratulates the 2016 AIANY Design Award winners, which include several Academy Fellows and Residents.

The Rome Prize Fellow Nina Young’s group Ensemble Échappé will perform her work and that of Andrew Norman (2007 Fellow) at Symphony Space in New York on Thursday, February 25.

The landscape architect Mary Margaret Jones’s (1998 Fellow) renovation of Philadelphia’s iconic LOVE park had a ceremonial groundbreaking this week.

A project in Rwanda by AAR Trustee Sharon Davis continues to receive accolades. See her Women’s Opportunity Center and Share Houses.

The Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum opens a new public garden by Fellow Walter Hood with the design studio Diller Scofidio+Renfro .

The 2015 Rome Prize winner Lauren Mackler is featured in a major Artforum article, “Systems of Believe: Public Fiction” by Ned Michael Holte.

The Savannah College of Art and Design has named Carrie Mae Weems (2006 Fellow) as its deFINE ART 2016 honoree. The accompanying exhibition, titled Carrie Mae Weems: Considered, will feature photography and video works from many of the artist’s iconic series.

David Adjaye & Associates was selected by Architectural Digest for its 2016 AD100 list. Adjaye was a 2016 Resident at the Academy.

Calvin Tsao, a 2010 Resident and a current Trustee, has been named as one of Architectural Digest’s AD100 for 2016.

AAR Trustee Tod Williams (1983 Fellow) and Billie Tsien (2000 Resident) have been selected as Architectural Digest’s AD100 of 2016.

The 2015 Rome Prize winner Nina C. Young will be a 2016 composer in residence for the Riot Ensemble.