American Academy in Rome

Artist Relief, an important new initiative helping artists who face urgent financial circumstances due to the coronavirus pandemic, has awarded a grant to Roberto Lugo, a 2020 Rome Prize Fellow in design.

Stephanie Frampton, professor of literature at MIT and a 2014 Fellow in ancient studies, talks about her 2019 book Empire of Letters and her current project, “Cicero’s Library: The Roman Book and the Making of the Classics.”

A Rome Prize project on the Exultet MSS of Southern Italy by the Stanford University professor Bissera Pentcheva, a 2018 Fellow in medieval studies, is now featured at the Biblioteca Casantense as part of the MiBact website.

Sarah Rose Sharp has reviewed Memory Houses by Robert Hutchison, a 2017 Fellow in architecture, for Hyperallergic. Hutchison developed many of the book’s drawings during his time in Rome, and the project was influenced by conversations with his fellow Fellows.