Next week in Rome—AAR celebrates its 125th anniversary by opening its 2019–20 programming season with a Conversations/Conversazioni event featuring Vatican Museum director Barbara Jatta and AAR director John Ochsendorf (2008Fellow).
Today in Rome—Mark Robbins, president and CEO of the American Academy in Rome and a 1997Fellow, will speak about the arc of the Academy in its 125 year history.
This week the Academy welcomes the incoming class ofwinners. Learn more about them and their projects at http://bit.ly/2lNbNGG.

Quick News
Samiya Bashir, a 2020 Rome Prize Fellow in literature, opens up to Reed Magazine about poetry, politics, and writer’s block.

The Daily Hampshire Gazette has interviewed Matt Donovan, director of Smith College’s Poetry Center and a 2012 Fellow in literature.

Holly Flora (2011 Fellow) was awarded the Premio San Francesco from the Pontifical University of Saint Anthony (Antonianum) in Rome for her book Cimabue and the Franciscans (2018).

Oberlin Music has released Late Air, a compact disc of musical compositions by John Harbison (1981 Fellow) and sung by the soprano Kendra Colton.

Maya Maskarinec (2014 Fellow) has won a 2020 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities for her project, “Domesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome.”

The London-based artist Helen Cammock—who won the American Academy of Rome’s 2018 Max Mara Art Prize for Women Affiliated Fellowship—is one of four recipients of this year’s Turner Prize

Two Rome Prize Fellows, Walter Hood (1997) and Emily Wilson (2006), have won 2019 MacArthur Foundation Fellowships.

Katie Larson, a 2016 Fellow in modern Italian studies, has recently joined Baylor University’s Art and Art History Department as assistant professor.

Rustin Levenson (2015 Resident) led the conservation of Sandro Botticelli and Domenico Ghirlandaio’s Coronation of the Virgin (ca. 1492), in the collection of the Bass Museum of Art in Florida.

John Kelly (2007 Fellow) will be premiering a new work, Underneath the Skin, at the Skirball Center at New York University on October 11 and 12, 2019. Underneath the Skin is a new solo work of dance and theater drawn from the life of the societal and sexual maverick Samuel Steward (1909–1993).





