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The 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale centers the American Academy’s fellows, residents, advisors, and affiliated artists and scholars on the world stage. 

The architect David Costanza is rethinking the assumptions behind sustainable building, pushing beyond carbon metrics to consider the human, historical, and technical dimensions of material use.

Rome Prize and Italian Fellows are prominently represented in The Spanish Steps, Revisited, a special exhibition at the Keats-Shelley House in Rome.

Earlier this month, the American Academy in Rome hosted Coins, Counting, and Community, a two-day conference examining the insights emerging from the Roman Republican Die Project 

The American Academy in Rome has announced 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.

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.

AAR mourns the loss of Nona Faustine, a Brooklyn-based photographer and our 2025 Rome Prize Fellow in visual arts, who passed away on March 20.

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.