Ten U.S. premieres by Italian and Italy-based artists, curated by 2025 Italian Fellows Francesco Urbano Ragazzi. Dreamlike and spectral, the program transforms darkness into a space of listening, guiding viewers from colonial pasts to imagined futures.
Fellow Shoptalks are a forum in which Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows present their work to each other. Shoptalks are occasionally streamed live on Zoom and posted to the Academy’s YouTube channel.
The event explores the travels and discoveries of women archaeologists featured in Women & Ruins: Archaeology, Landscape, and Photography—including Gertrude Bell, Esther Van Deman, the Bulwer Sisters, and Marion Blake—followed by a discussion of Olivier Guez’s Mesopotamia with Caroline Goodson, Ilaria Puri Purini, and moderator Raffaella Silvestri.
Fellow Shoptalks are a forum in which Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows present their work to each other. Shoptalks are occasionally streamed live on Zoom and posted to the Academy’s YouTube channel.
The Academy’s signature series of events, Conversations/Conversazioni: From the American Academy in Rome, convenes leading artists, scholars, designers, historians, and museum leaders for frank, wide-ranging discussions on a variety of topics in the arts and humanities.
A collaboration with Dartmouth, this gathering will immerse participants in the complexities and intersections of food systems, culture, and sustainability.
This is the second in a series of five lectures on Material Environments, hosted jointly between the AAR and BSR over the course of the year.
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