February 23, 2024 Evolutionary Populations 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. Read more
February 22, 2024 US Embassy Holds Concert Supporting Ukraine and Featuring AAR’s Artist Protection Fund Fellow "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. Read more
February 21, 2024 When in Rome: Tina Cancemi 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. Read more
February 20, 2024 Residents in Focus: Adam Yarinsky Earlier this academic year, the architect Adam Yarinsky (2024 Resident) spoke about his time at the American Academy in Rome. Read more
February 19, 2024 Society of Fellows Celebrates a New Book by Laurie Olin 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). Read more
February 16, 2024 AAR’s Classical Summer School Offers Educators and Students a Journey through Roman History and Literature 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. Read more
February 15, 2024 Unveiling Italy’s Fascist Legacy: From Conference Debates to Published Perspectives 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. Read more
February 13, 2024 Fellows in Focus: Baldwin Giang 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. Read more
February 12, 2024 AAR Environmental Humanities Event Featured in Corriere della Sera 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." Read more
February 9, 2024 Khaled Sabsabi Named Next Mordant Family and Creative Australia Affiliated Fellow 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. Read more
February 8, 2024 From the Archives: Carnevale 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. Read more
February 7, 2024 In Memoriam: George W. Houston 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. Read more
February 6, 2024 Fellows in Focus: Fatma Bucak 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. Read more
February 5, 2024 Re-Creating History: Pamela Keech at the Tenement Museum 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. Read more
February 5, 2024 AAR Welcomes Spring-Term Fellows to Rome The Academy is grateful to welcome the latest Rome Prize winners to the Eternal City. Read more
February 2, 2024 Application Deadline Extended: 2024 Classical Summer School The deadline to apply for the 2024 Classical Summer School has been extended. The new deadline is February 23, 2024. Read more
January 31, 2024 Evan Jewell Appointed Classical Summer School Director Evan Jewell (2023 Fellow) has been selected to be the new director of the Classical Summer School. Read more
January 29, 2024 Miranda Mote Opens Her Studio and Practice to Children of Rome 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. Read more
January 26, 2024 Archaeologists and Scholars Dig Deep into Roman Regia at Major Conference 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. Read more
January 25, 2024 New Oral Histories Published Online The Academy’s Institutional Archive has published three new oral histories from the sculptor Gilbert Franklin, the artist Robert B. Green, and the classicists Lawrence Richardson Jr. and Emeline Hill Richardson. Read more