The winners of the 2002-2003 Rome Prize are:

For a detailed list of winners please click here.

The announcement was made by the Director of the Academy, Lester K. Little, during a ceremony in New York City. The evening proceeded with a celebration of landscape architecture, with a lecture by Dr. John Dixon Hunt, Professor of the History and Theory of Landscape at the University of Pennsylvania and Resident scholar at the Academy in 2001. Entitled Into the Garden with Apollo and Co., Dr. Hunt's talk discussed the presence of iconography in the garden since the Renaissance. Additionally, during the evening, Arthur Ross, Academy Trustee, conferred upon noted landscape architect, Laurie D. Olin, Academy Fellow, Resident and Trustee Emeritus, the Academy's Centennial Medal in recognition of the many contributions Mr. Olin has made to the Academy and the world of landscape architecture during his distinguished career. The American Academy in Rome's Centennial Medal was designed in 1994 by Roy Lichtenstein, Academy Resident and Trustee Emeritus, in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Academy's founding.

Rome Prizes were awarded in the fields of architecture, design, historic preservation and conservation, landscape architecture, literature, musical composition, visual arts and ancient studies, medieval studies, Renaissance and early modern studies and modern Italian studies. Prize winners range in age from 26 to 59 and come from sixteen states across the nation. These newly announced winners will join art historian Shilpa Prasad, a 2001 winner, who is completing the second year of a two-year Rome Prize fellowship.

The Rome Prize is awarded through an annual, open competition that is juried by leading artists and scholars in the different disciplines. Over thirty-five individuals were convened into eight different juries to review applications. Jurors this year included: Eric Owen Moss, Architect and Director of Southern California Institute of Architecture; Anthony Davis, Composer at the University of California, San Diego; Philip Gossett, Robert W. Reneker Distinguished Service Professor, Professor of Music, University of Chicago; Agnes Gund, President, Museum of Modern Art; Peter Parshall, Curator of Old Master Prints, Department of Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art; and Joan Ferrante, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, among others. (Please click here to see a complete list of all jurors and their professional affiliations.)

The American Academy in Rome is one of the leading centers for independent study and advanced research in the arts and humanities. Each year the Academy invites applications for its prestigious Rome Prize Competition. The annual deadline for the Rome Prize is November 1. For over one hundred years, the Academy has offered support, time and an inspiring environment to some of America's most gifted scholars and artists. For more information please visit www.aarome.org.

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