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The American Academy in Rome announced today the winners of the 2025–26 Rome Prize and Italian Fellowships.

Jenny Lin, the 2025 Tsao Family Rome Prize Fellow, shares how her project came about, where she has conducted research, and what her favorite vintage clothing market is.

Seven artists and scholars with ties to the American Academy in Rome have been named 2025 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellows—an enduring sign of the Academy’s creative reach and influence.

The Academy recently checked in with the visual artist Sheila Pepe, who returned to the US in January following her half-term fellowship.

AAR’s Photographic Archive has created two significant digital collections now accessible through the Digital Humanities Center: the Conlin Collection and the Fasti Archaeologici Photo Collection.

In an era where technology and art increasingly intersect, “Rhythm Bots” stands out as a captivating fusion of engineering precision and artistic expression.

The Academy checked in with Julia Rose Katz to ask about her progress on her dissertation, “Circe’s Wand: Reimagining Antiquities in Early Modern Europe, 1500–1800,” 

AAR caught up with Anthony Acciavatti, our 2025 Rome Prize Fellow in landscape architecture, this month after completing his fellowship in January.

We caught up with Vassiliki Panoussi to learn more about her current work, the questions driving her research, and how her time in Rome is shaping the project.

AAR reconnected with Daria Scia (2025 Italian Fellow), a composer renowned for her innovative approach to contemporary classical music, after her departure from the Academy.

L’American Academy in Rome piange la scomparsa di Nona Faustine, vincitrice del Rome Prize 2024–25 per le Arti Visive, venuta a mancare il 20 marzo.

AAR presents Women and Ruins: Archaeology, Photography, and Landscape, the first exhibition dedicated to the influence of a group of trailblazing women who helped record archaeology and landscapes from new vantage points.

AAR and the Society of Fellows have announced the winners of their new Venice Residency program: the architect Hsinming Fung and Mike Chin, a scholar of ancient studies.

Claire Dillon is the 2025 Paul Mellon Rome Prize Fellow in medieval studies and a PhD candidate at Columbia University, where she specializes in the intersections of visual cultures, identities, and faiths in the medieval Mediterranean and their modern afterlives.

This April, the American Academy in Rome, the dynamic international community that supports innovative artists, writers, and scholars living and working together, convenes Galileo Week.

Giancarlo Tursi, a 2025 Rome Prize Fellow in modern Italian studies, spent a few moments answering a few questions from the Academy.

Curator Akili Tommasino’s research for Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now relied not only on archival access but also on the human networks fostered by the Academy.

As spring unfolds, the American Academy in Rome welcomes a distinguished cohort of scholars and artists for the second half of its 2025 fellowship season, beginning this month.

The American Academy in Rome has posted a new collection of color photographs from the early 1960s—the Charles T. Stifter Collection—to the AAR Library’s Digital Humanities Center.

In occasione del Black History Month 2025, l’American Academy in Rome ospita il seminario interattivo The Ritual of Breath Is the Rite to Resist: Ritual Project.