Skinning Elbows in Rome (two parts):
Kitchin: In an age of increased awareness of virtual and synthetic space, there has been less discussion of another typology - that where place and presence are the primary generations of space and form. This untitled architecture evolves from and within a non-self-conscious sensibility of space and material with no master plan or projective design, simply an arrangement of place to serve an immediate use. I propose to survey, measure and draw a series of these spaces as they currently exhibit their unique and common qualities, and to photograph them as still moments of a narrative that envelopes their physical existence.

Tickle: Surfacing is a process of making extraordinary space of common materials and events of daily life which resonate next to the skin. The search for Roman surfaces - surfaces woven by hand and revealing centuries of time through materiality - is the first lamination of the proposal. The layers sought are pigmented by the everyday hues of life and are not exceptional until exposed and drawn onto another tactile surface. A new surface will then be rubbed into Rome - a city saturated with life.


Founders Rome Prize Fellowship in Architecture
Kelly D. Powell
Detroit Collaborative Design Fellow; Adjunct Faculty
University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture
Detroit, MI

My work at the Academy will involve a series of archaeological and cultural "scratchings." These "scratchings" will try to unearth a mélange of Romes that the rest of the world may not realize or has forgotten exists. For example, what diversity of cultures, ethnicities, thoughts, notions and forms of expression exist beneath the constructed homogenized portrayal of Rome that the world is constantly presented as true or complete.


ALTERNATE: Stephen Atkinson


CLASSICAL STUDIES AND ARCHAEOLOGY
Irene Rosenzweig/Samuel H. Kress Foundation/ Helen M. Woodruff-Archaeological Institute of America
Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellowship in Classical Studies and Archaeology
(year two of a two-year fellowship)
John Curtis Franklin
Department of Greek and Latin, University College, London
Oxford, Great Britain

At the Academy I shall complete my comparative study of the Mesopotamian cuneiform musical tablets and the Greek theorists and musicographers. In this study I attempt to show that the lyric or "melic" revolution of the Greek Archaic period has its roots in the musical aspect of the orientalizing period. This is epitomized in the tradition that Terpander "invented" the seven-stringed lyre.


National Endowment for the Humanities
Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellowship in Classical Studies and Archaeology
Kirk Freudenburg
Associate Professor, Department of Classics
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH

I will complete two projects on the topic of Roman verse satire for Cambridge University Press. These are: 1) a commentary on Horace: Sermones Book II, for the so-called 'Green and Yellow' series, and 2) The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire, for which I am serving as volume editor. It is my hope that both projects will be greatly enriched by long-term daily access to the museums, libraries, and archaeological sites of Rome.


Phyllis G. Gordan Post-doctoral Rome Prize Fellowship in Classical Studies and Archaeology
Lynne C. Lancaster
Assistant Professor, Classics Department
Ohio University
Athens, OH

During my time in Rome, I will be working on a book that focuses on the materials and building techniques used to construct large concrete vaulted monuments during the Imperial period, such as the Colosseum, Trajan's Markets and the Pantheon. I also examine the evidence for the organization of the building process for these types of large projects.


Samuel H. Kress Foundation/Jesse Benedict Carter
Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellowship in Classical Studies and Archaeology
Josiah Osgood
Department of Classics
Yale University
New Haven, CT

In Rome I will finish my dissertation, a study of civil war in Italy, 44-29 BCE. I examine contemporary literature to see what patterns and forms Romans conferred on their experience and, whenever possible, juxtapose these texts with the material evidence of coins, public inscriptions, funeral monuments, and other works of art.


Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Pre-Doctoral
Rome Prize Fellowship in Classical Studies and Archaeology
Adam Rabinowitz
Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology
The University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI

I will spend my time at The Academy collecting archaeological data for a dissertation on the social function of the symposium in both the Greek and the indigenous communities of archaic Sicily and South Italy. I hope to investigate the relation between the physical evidence for communal drinking and the political structure of the colonial poleis, and to highlight the way in which Greek objects and practices were not simply adopted by indigenous populations but reinterpreted to meet the social and political needs of particular communities.


Arthur Ross Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellowship in Classical Studies and Archaeology
Kristina M. Sessa
Department of History
University of California at Berkeley
Berkelely, CA

While in Rome, I will be completing my doctoral dissertation, a study of the late Roman bishop and his community in 5th and 6th century CE historical romances and biographies. My project examines the social, spatial and literary dimensions of these sources and investigates their significance as documents of late antique cultural history. Next year will be devoted largely to issues of Roman space and topography, and will be spent conducting research and writing both at the Academy and at other scholarly institutions in Rome.

ALTERNATES:
Alberto Prieto (pre-doctoral)
Maura Lafferty (post-doctoral)


DESIGN ARTS
Rolland Rome Prize Fellowship in Design Arts
William H. Fain, Jr.
Partner, Johnson Fain Partners, Architects
Los Angeles, CA

In the 1870s high floodwalls were constructed along the Tiber River through the center of Rome to control severe floods that had devastated the city each decade during the century. Building these walls effectively separated the Tiber from the city's built area and removed it from the civic life of the city. The study will examine the potential for revisions to the Tiber River waterfront as a linear park, which a) spatially reconnects the city to the river; b) creates new open space that is accessible and useable to Roman citizens on a daily basis; c) improves recreational opportunities in the city and the potential for new urban "life-styles"; d) is based upon research, that acknowledges and builds upon the river's and the city's history; e) regards the river's sustainability as an invaluable resource for the future of the city; and, f) reviews the potential for expanding the river course transportation.


Franklin D. Israel Rome Prize Fellowship in Design Arts
Paul Shaw
Principal, Paul Shaw / Letter Design;Associate Professor of Typography
Parsons School of Design
New York, NY

I plan to investigate the inscriptions found on the memorials produced by Renaissance sculptor Andrea Bregno (1418-1503) and his bottega. My intent is to 1. document and catalogue them (dates, locations, clients and attributions of who in the bottega was actually responsible for their design and execution); and 2. to prove a hypothesis that they form a crucial link between early 15th century Florentine sans serif inscriptional letterforms and the calligraphic capitals found in manuscripts written out by the great Paduan scribe Bartolomeo Sanvito (c.1435-1512). I will also be comparing Bregno's and Sanvito's letterforms to those of the Vatican scribe Giovanbattista Palatino (c.1515-c.1575) in an attempt to trace the evolution of the Roman capital from its revival in the Quattrocento to its Baroque incarnation in the late 16th century.

ALTERNATE: Clifford Pearson


HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION
Samuel H. Kress Rome Prize Fellowship in Historic Preservation and Conservation Elizabeth Riorden
Architect/Adjunct Professor, School of Architecture and Interior Design
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH

I will examine the many factors (including the need for protection, and the need for display) involved in the design of structures for non-movable archaeological finds. My research, interviews and field visits will be towards determining the "state-of-the-art"; at the same time I will be designing specific shelters for two sites where I have already conducted years of field work. I hope to summarize this project in the form of a long article or handbook, aimed at excavation leaders as part of a cultural resource management team.


National Endowment for the Arts Rome Prize Fellowship in Historic Preservation and Conservation
Ellen Phillips Soroka
Assistant Professor of Architecture
Arizona State University
Phoenix, AZ

The history of the relationship between architecture and light is demonstrated visually in the specific physiognomy of buildings built at different times, in different places and by different designers. Through scientific study, artistic praxis and meditation, light's quixotic being constantly recreates itself in the mind's eye as it delivers fresh and changing revelation to each and every generation. My study will compare light in the Veneto, Rome/Lazio and Naples/Campania by examining the narrative dimension of light, demonstrated in the way light is introduced into, and exploited outside of, buildings in each of these regions, registering specific responses to the differing qualities of light in these regions.

ALTERNATE: Mary Dierickx


HISTORY OF ART
Frances Barker Tracy/Samuel H. Kress Foundation
Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellowship in the History of Art
(year two of a two-year fellowship)
Jennifer Bethke
Department of Art History
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA

While at the Academy I will be researching and writing my dissertation "From Futurism to Neoclassicism: Temporality in Italian Modernism." I plan to make use of the Archivio Centrale dello Stato and other important archives and libraries in Rome in order to study the Futurist and Novecento movements. Through examining these two art movements, I will explore the Italian modernists' attitudes toward history, tradition and temporality.


Donald and Maria Cox Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellowship in the History of Art
Michael Cole
Assistant Professor, Department of Art
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC

My research will focus on how discourses from various fields allowed artists and writers around 1600 to think about sculpture as a distinctive category. In particular, I will be looking at how contemporary literatures associated with natural history, pyrotechnics, medicine, mathematics and moral philosophy defined and informed the period's plastic arts.


National Endowment for the Humanities
Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellowship in the History of Art
Steven F. Ostrow
Associate Professor, Department of the History of Art
University of California at Riverside
Los Angeles, CA

While at the Academy, my primary activities will be conducting the research for and writing of a book entitled "Like a Miracle": Studies in the Art and Life of Gianlorenzo Bernini. These studies focus on Bernini's engagement with art theory, the genesis and meaning of one of his most problematic sculptures, what he may have learned from the art of his sculptor-father, his two biographies as works of literature, and the role of color - both in theory and practice - in his art.

Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral
Rome Prize Fellowship in the History of Art
(year one of a two-year fellowship)
Shilpa Prasad
History of Art Department
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD

My dissertation focuses on a group of history paintings by Guercino that have been that have been described as elusive examples of "Baroque theatricality." I intend to lend this characterization historical depth by contextualizing the paintings within contemporary debates about new genres in painting, theater, poetry, and the writing of history. During my first year at the Academy, I will supplement the research I have already conducted in Guercino's "theatricality." In addition to the library of the American Academy in Rome, I shall use the resources of the Bibliotheca Angelica, the Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana, the Bibliotheca Hertziana and the Bibliotheca e Raccolta Teatrale del Burcardo.

ALTERNATES:
Kristin Gilbert (pre-doctoral)
Jonathan Unglaub (post-doctoral)


LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Prince Charitable Trusts Rome Prize Fellowship in Landscape Architecture
Andrew Thanh-Son Cao
Landscape designer/glass artist
Co-founder, Glass Garden, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA

Building on five years of experimentation with recycled glass as an alternative landscape medium, The Rome Prize Fellowship will allow me much-needed time to explore this under-used material in the context of healing gardens and environmental art. I also want to study the emotional and artistic impact that stained glass has in religious iconography and contemplative spaces, and hope to translate that into a contemporary landscape environment.


Garden Club of America Rome Prize Fellowship in Landscape Architecture
Peter Osler
Landscape Architect
Ann Arbor, MI

My proposal is entitled Time's Way, Time's Wear, and the Poetics of Shears. I will study the gardens of Rome relative to the evolution and traditions of tools and maintenance techniques. Of special interest is how these forces affect a garden's spatial character and aura. Research across different scales of time-archival studies, a year-long photographic essay, and daily labor in the gardens-will inform a series of speculative garden designs that critically address the relentless cycle of growth, senescence, and death, and the poetic potential of garden maintenance.

ALTERNATE: Jon Piasecki


LITERATURE
Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellowship, a gift of the Drue Heinz Trust/American Academy of Arts and Letters
Mark Halliday
Poet; Associate Professor of English
Ohio University
Athens, OH

I am working on my fourth book of poems, which will center on issues of individual identity and personality. Also, I hope to make progress with a sequence of essays on the function and value of "proper-name particulars" in poetry.


John Guare Writer's Fund Rome Prize Fellowship, a gift of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman
Vincent Katz
Poet
New York, NY

I plan to complete my translations of the four books of poems by Sextus Propertius, availing myself of Italy's rich manuscript holdings and the opportunity to visit architectural and geographical sites referred to in the poems.


MUSICAL COMPOSITION
Frederic A. Juilliard/Walter Damrosch Rome Prize Fellowship in Musical Composition
Derek Bermel
Composer
Brooklyn, NY

While at the Academy, I plan to work primarily on two pieces, a large-scale symphonic work for the Westchester Philharmonic's 2002-2003 season and an opera commissioned by the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust. I will also be writing a series of solo études for Dutch electronic guitarist Wiek Hijmans.


Samuel Barber Rome Prize Fellowship in Musical Composition
Kevin Matthew Puts
Composer; Assistant Professor of Composition
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX

I plan to use my fellowship to concentrate on three orchestral commissions I have received - a work for the Phoenix Symphony's Beethoven Festival in January 2002, a joint commission from the Cincinnati and Utah Symphonies to be premiered in March 2002, and work for the American Composers Orchestra to be premiered in Carnegie Hall in April 2002. I am excited about the opportunity to learn about and work in the midst of another culture, and intrigued especially by the possibility of gaining a new perspective on what it means to be an American composer.

ALTERNATES:
Jefferson Friedman
Stacy Garrop


POST-CLASSICAL HUMANISTIC / MODERN ITALIAN STUDIES
Mellon Post-Doctoral Research Rome Prize Fellowship in Post-Classical Humanistic/Modern Italian Studies
Karl Appuhn
Assistant Professor, Department of History
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR

I will be conducting research on the history of flood control in Venice. I will focus on how the social, political, and cultural terms of the debate over flood control have changed since the Renaissance, as the city went from economic center to tourist destination.


National Endowment for the Humanities
Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellowship in Post-Classical Humanistic/Modern Italian Studies
Pamela Ballinger
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Bowdoin College
Harpswell, ME

I will finish archival research and begin writing a book manuscript examining the exodus of ethnic Italians from Istria after World War II. I will explore the motivations of individuals who left Istria, as well as those who remained, when it passed from Italian to Yugoslav control. I will also locate these population movements within broader context of state (re)making in postwar Italy and Yugoslavia.


Marian and Andrew Heiskell Pre-Doctoral
Rome Prize Fellowship in Post-Classical Humanistic/Modern Italian Studies
Gabriel Pihas
Committee on Social Thought
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL

I will study curiosity in Renaissance literary texts (mainly Italian) with an eye to the development of the novel. I will read authors like Dante and Cervantes in the context of changing attitudes towards curiosity, from the wake of Averroism in Europe to the so-called Counter-Reformation.


Lily Auchincloss Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellowship in Post-Classical Humanistic/Modern Italian Studies
Carol Whang
Department of Music
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

I aim to illuminate how the use of polyphonic models informed compositional process in the sixteenth-century parody Mass. Beyond investigation of inherent musical relationships between Masses and their models, the visual presentation and the physical characteristics of the manuscripts preserving these models figure prominently in understanding precisely how a composer would have worked with his material sources. I will study these aspects of contemporary manuscripts at the Vatican Library in order to complete the research for my dissertation, "Seeing, Hearing, Remembering, and Assimilating: Compositional Strategies in the Masses of Palestrina."

ALTERNATES:
Samuel Collins (pre-doctoral)
Mary Gibson (post-doctoral)
Daniel Stolzenburg (pre-doctoral)


VISUAL ARTS
Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize Fellowship in Visual Arts
Shimon Attie
Artist
Brooklyn, NY

As an artist concerned with questions of memory, place and identity, and whose work seeks to excavate layers of history and memory, I see Rome as the ultimate canvas. In Rome's rich historical tapestry, I would come and artistically investigate the layers, teasing out threads from the past - some still visible to today's eyes, others not - spinning and reconfiguring them into new images and artworks using my preferred media of photography, video, site-specific installation and light.


Jules Guerin/Metrolpolitan Museum of Art-Jacob H. Lazarus Rome Prize Fellowship in Visual Arts
Kevin Jerome Everson
Artist/Filmmaker; Assistant Professor of Art
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA

My work will present people from the African Diaspora engaged in some type of working class gesture or task as if it were a phenomenon. The gesture or task will be repositioned in a variety of mediums such as photography, film, video, painting and/or sculpture.


John Armstrong Chaloner Rome Prize Fellowship in Visual Arts
Vanalyne Green
Professor and Associate Chair, The Department of Film, Video and New Media
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL

I will work on a video essay that critiques and satirizes relationships between church and state. Having begun research ten years ago with the chaplains' prayers given daily in the U.S. Congress, the next stage of production is one that involves receptivity, inspiration, and the integration of images and texts gathered while in Rome -- the historical epicenter of religious gesture and statecraft. This vast cultural landscape will give final meaning and shape to my project.


Chuck Close Rome Prize Fellowship in Visual Arts
Kim Jones
Artist
New York, NY

I plan to do a series of walking sculpture "Mudman" performances in parts of Rome (parks, monuments, ruins). I will also do a series of "War Drawings," specific to sites in Rome, using paper and other materials.

ALTERNATES:
Patricia Chang
Heather McGill
John Schlesinger

After the Academy: For information on the Society of Fellows, the alumni organization for Fellows and Residents of the American Academy in Rome, see the SOF web site at www.sof-aarome.org for more details.