Features

As part of AAR’s “Fellows in Focus” series, we spotlight Emily B. Frank, the 2024 Suzanne Deal Booth Rome Prize Fellow in Historic Preservation and Conservation and a PhD candidate at NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World.

Rome Sustainable Food Project chef Sara Levi visits a farming cooperative in Pedaso to learn more about evolutionary population bread wheat, and how to bring it to the Academy.

"Raising Voices for Ukraine," a concert organized by the US Embassy in Rome, harnessed the unifying power of music to convey support for the Ukrainian people and featured Artist Protection Fund Fellow Andrew Arnautov.

Tina Cancemi, the Academy’s programs associate for special events and external affairs, shares her favorite things and places in Rome, which include the Museum of the Walls, a Raphael fresco, and architecturally inspired jewelry.

Earlier this academic year, the architect Adam Yarinsky (2024 Resident) spoke about his time at the American Academy in Rome.

The Society of Fellows cohosted a Gatherings event at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York that celebrated a newly published book, In Italy: Sketches and Drawings, by Laurie Olin (1974 Fellow, 1990 and 2008 Resident).

AAR spoke to new Classical Summer School Director Evan Jewell (2023 Fellow) about the continued value of the program, and what participants can expect this year.

A new volume, A Difficult Heritage: The Afterlives of Fascist-Era Art and Architecture (Silvana Editoriale), edited by 2019 Fellow Carmen Belmonte, has its source in a 2019 conference supported by AAR’s Fellows’ Project Fund.

As part of AAR’s “Fellows in Focus” series, we highlight Baldwin Giang, a Chicago-based composer, pianist, and the 2024 Samuel Barber Rome Prize Fellow in musical composition.

In case you missed it: Rome's daily newspaper Corriere della Sera reports on AAR's environmental humanities event "Pairings: Progress and Tradition through Food and Wine."

The visual artist Khaled Sabsabi has been awarded the Mordant Family and Creative Australia Affiliated Fellowship, granting him a two-month residency at the American Academy in Rome during the 2024–25 academic year.

At the American Academy in Rome, especially during the 1960s, Carnevale was an excuse for Fellows to let loose, and to open the Academy’s doors to Italian friends and visitors from other foreign academies.

George W. Houston, a professor in the Department of Classics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill from 1969 to 2005 and a 1969 Rome Prize Fellow, has died.

As part of AAR’s “Fellows in Focus” series, we highlight Fatma Bucak, the Turin-based artist and our 2024 Fondazione Sviluppo e Crescita CRT Italian Fellow in Visual Arts.

In recent months, Keech served on the design team for the Tenement Museum’s latest exhibition, A Union of Hope: 1869, completed late last year, and became the museum’s first exhibition to feature the home of a Black family.

The Academy is grateful to welcome the latest Rome Prize winners to the Eternal City.

The deadline to apply for the 2024 Classical Summer School has been extended. The new deadline is February 23, 2024. 

Evan Jewell (2023 Fellow) has been selected to be the new director of the Classical Summer School. 

Miranda E. Mote, our 2024 Fellow in landscape architecture, is bringing the outdoors in while welcoming some unlikely visitors to her studio: scores of children ages three to fifteen for specially designed classes that combine art, botany, and plant stories. 

At the center of the Roman Forum, often ignored by the tourists visiting the area, lies an archaeological treasure trove that holds secrets from the oldest days of Rome: the Regia. This remarkable site served as the subject of a major seminar held at the Curia Julia on Thursday.