Past Events

Fellow Shoptalks are a forum in which Rome Prize winners, Italian Fellows, and Affiliated Fellows present their work. Shoptalks are occasionally streamed live on Zoom and posted to the Academy’s YouTube channel.

Roman Thresholds features prints, drawings, and collages that engage with architectural elements to challenge the boundaries between architecture, visual art, and design within the context of the experience of the Rome Prize.

AAR will announce the 2025–26 Rome Prize and Italian Fellowship winners on Wednesday, April 23 at the Janet and Arthur Ross Rome Prize Ceremony.

Naomi Ehrich Leonard will be in conversation with composer Alvin Curran and poet Erica Hunt about the ways in which group decisions are taken in a creative and collaborative setting.

This talk will explore the dual nature of generative AI as a cultural transformation and a material force. 

Flocking birds, schooling fish, swarming bees, and other animal groups that lack centralized control can nonetheless meet real-world uncertainties with collective decision-making that is fast, flexible, adaptive, and often stunningly beautiful.

Naomi Leonard will present a new immersive experience with video, sound, and virtual reality evoking her most recent experiment, “Rhythm Bots.”

This conference aims to expand the scope of the Roman Republican Die Project, a digital repository of Roman republican coin dies based on the archive of Richard Schaefer.

Fellow Shoptalks are a forum in which Rome Prize winners, Italian Fellows, and Affiliated Fellows present their work. Shoptalks are occasionally streamed live on Zoom and posted to the Academy’s YouTube channel.

This concert at Parco della Musica features compositions by Academy-affiliated composers including Vijay Iyer, David Lang, Nico Muhly, and Julia Wolfe.