The Academy is grateful to welcome today our spring-term Fellows, the final members of the class of Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows to arrive on the Janiculum. Their projects will build on the Academy’s commitment to the global impact of artists, scholars, writers, and thinkers.
Eleven Fellows representing the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, literature, musical composition, and visual arts, will join the full-year Fellows in residence at the Academy. (See the complete class of Rome Prize winners.) In addition to these Rome Prize winners, we welcomed Lan Tuazon, the 2024 Terra Foundation Affiliated Fellow for a Chicago-Based Artist in January. In March, we look forward to receiving Sabrina Morreale, the Enel Foundation Italian Fellow in Architecture, Urban Design, and Landscape Architecture, the final Italian Fellow of the academic year to arrive.
The highly competitive Rome Prize Fellowships support advanced independent work and research in the arts and humanities. This year, the gift of “time and space to think and work” was awarded to thirty-six Americans and three Italians. Each receive a stipend, workspace, and room and board at the Academy’s eleven-acre campus in Rome.
Joining us this season are:
Architecture
Arnold W. Brunner/Frances Barker Tracy/Katherine Edwards Gordon Rome Prize
César A. Lopez
Assistant Professor, School of Architecture and Planning, University of New Mexico
Citizenry Actions
Landscape Architecture
Gilmore D. Clarke and Michael Rapuano/Kate Lancaster Brewster Rome Prize
Lauren Stimson
Partner, STIMSON, Princeton, Massachusetts
Seeing Rural: Embracing Art, Craft, and Slowness in the Italian Landscape
Literature
John Guare Writers Fund Rome Prize, a Gift of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman
Elif Batuman
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of English, Barnard College, Columbia University
CAMINO REAL/THE SELIN NOVELS
Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, a Gift of the Drue Heinz Trust
Erica Hunt
Bannerman Visiting Associate Professor of the Practice, Department of Literary Arts, Brown University
The Mood Librarian Tells Stories
Rome Prize in Literature
Shruti Swamy
Writer, San Francisco
Margret and Vishnu: Stories
Musical Composition
Frederic A. Juilliard/Walter Damrosch Rome Prize
Kate Soper
Composer, Northampton, Massachusetts; Iva Dee Hiatt Professor of Music, Smith College; Codirector, Wet Ink Ensemble
Orchestra Orpheus Opus Onus
Visual Arts
Carla Fendi Rome Prize
Kamrooz Aram
Artist, Brooklyn
Renegotiating Ornament
Philip Guston Rome Prize
Nao Bustamante
Professor of Art, Roski School of Art and Design, University of Southern California
BLOOM
Jules Guerin Rome Prize
Mike Cloud
Associate Professor, Department of Art, Theory, and Practice, Northwestern University
Holistic Abstraction
Nancy B. Negley Rome Prize
Jeanine Oleson
Associate Professor, Department of Art and Design, Rutgers University
Untitled, Work-in-progress
Philip Guston Rome Prize
Estefania Puerta Grisales
Artist, Burlington, Vermont
Embodied Excess: Feeling the Ruins
Terra Foundation Affiliated Fellow for a Chicago-Based Artist
Lan Tuazon
Associate Professor, Department of Sculpture, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Future Fossils: Ever Given
Italian Fellow
Enel Foundation Italian Fellow in Architecture, Urban Design, and Landscape Architecture
Sabrina Morreale
Architect, London and Rome; Studio Master, Architectural Association School of Architecture; Cofounder, Lemonot Studio
Roman Foraging: Spontaneous Convivial Acts within the Edgelands