Expodemic: Festival of Foreign Academies and Cultural Institutes
Expodemic is the second edition of the Festival of Foreign Academies and Cultural Institutes in Rome designed to spread out from the Palazzo Esposizioni Roma into the fabric of the city.
Zakarya Khelif – A Closer Look at the Domestic Architecture of Tipasensis
Zakarya Khelif (2024 Affiliated Fellow) will speak about his research focusing on the Romano-African domestic architecture, particularly elite residences, in the Roman colony of Tipasa of Mauretaniae Caesariensis, in present-day Algeria.
Fellow Shoptalks are a forum in which Rome Prize winners, Italian Fellows, and Affiliated Fellows present their work to each other and to the public. Shoptalks are occasionally streamed live on Zoom and posted to the Academy’s YouTube channel.
2024 Janet & Arthur Ross Rome Prize Ceremony and Concert
Please join us on Thursday, April 25, as we celebrate the 2024–25 Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows at the Janet & Arthur Ross Rome Prize Ceremony, taking place at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall.
Zachary Fabri & Emily B. Frank – On Art and Conservation
Zachary Fabri and Emily B. Frank (2024 Fellows) will discuss CONTINUITY MUTABILITY GENERATION, their collaborative exhibition that considers the generative interplay of art making and art conservation.
Emre Gönlügür – Blue Anatolia: The Classical Heritage and Modern Imagination in Postwar Turkey
Emre Gönlügür (2024 Affiliated Fellow) will discuss his revisionist reading of the Blue Anatolia debate, an artistic and intellectual movement that developed in Turkey during the 1950s and 1960s.
Estefania Puerta Grisales & Shruti Swamy – because I could not fit my body in the world, I made a world to fit my body
Fellow Shoptalks are a forum in which Rome Prize winners, Italian Fellows, and Affiliated Fellows present their work to each other and to the public. Shoptalks are occasionally streamed live on Zoom and posted to the Academy’s YouTube channel.
Aliza Wong – Reimagining Old and New Worlds: The American Academy in Rome
For 130 years, AAR has opened its doors to American artists, architects, sculptors, art historians, writers, composers, designers, archaeologists, historians, and many other creative thinkers in the arts and the humanities who found inspiration and innovation in the Eternal City.
Dread Scott’s All African People’s Consulate is a functioning consulate for an imaginary Pan-African, Afrofuturist union of countries, promoting cultural and diplomatic relations.