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Glendalys Medina is the John Armstrong Chaloner / Jacob H. Lazarus-Metropolitan Museum of Art Rome Prize Winner in Visual Arts and an Artist.

The playwright John Guare is the John T. Sargent Writer in Residence at the American Academy in Rome.

The show featured objects from the AAR’s Norton–Van Buren Archaeology Study Collection—a collection of over six thousand objects including everything from Etruscan cinerary urns to Christian lamps, much of which has never been exhibited to the public.

The Academy has just published a personal memoir by Lawrence Richardson Jr., a 1950 Fellow, 1979 Resident, and Academy Trustee from 1969 to 1992, focusing on his years in Rome.

Thomas Hendrickson is the winner of the Arthur Ross Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize in Ancient Studies and a PhD candidate in the Department of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Barry Strauss is the Lucy Shoe Meritt Scholar in Residence at the American Academy in Rome, a professor of history and a professor of classics at Cornell University.

Jesse Jones is the Elliott Carter Rome Prize Winner in Musical Composition and a DMA candidate in the Department of Music at Cornell University.

Ramie Targoff is the American Academy in Rome Scholar in Residence and Professor of English at Brandeis University.

Erik Adigard is the Katherine Edwards Gordon Rome Prize Winner in Design, the founder and designer of M-A-D, and a lecturer at the California College of the Arts.

David McCullough gave the annual Patricia H. Labalme Friends of the Library Lecture in Rome called “Standing the Test of Time: Reflections on the Craft of Writing.”

Since 1996, the American Academy in Rome has been proud to host the annual fall new music festival called “Nuova Consonanza” at the Villa Aurelia.

Patrick Baker is the Lily Auchincloss Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Winner in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Medieval and Neo-Latin Philology at the University of Münster.

Polly Apfelbaum is the Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize Winner in Visual Arts and an Artist.

Adele Chatfield-Taylor announced today that she plans to step down from the American Academy in Rome at the end of 2013 when she will have completed twenty-five years as the Academy's president and CEO.

The American composer Elliott Carter’s connection with the American Academy in Rome was a long and mutually beneficial one. Carter’s recent death at the age of 103 seemed a perfect opportunity for us to ask our two current Rome Prize winners in musical composition for their thoughts about his life and musical legacy.

Emma Blake is the National Endowment for the Humanities/Phyillis G. Gordan Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Winner in Ancient Studies and an Assistant Professor in the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona.

Patrick Oliphant is an editorial cartoonist, the winner of the 1966 Pulitzer Prize, and the Roy Lichtenstein Artist in Residence at the American Academy in Rome.

The former United States Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky and the Grammy Award–winning pianist Laurence Hobgood triumphantly found their own path and avoided the pitfalls, in performing a program entitled POEMJAZZ in the Sala Musica at the Villa Aurelia on Sunday evening, November 4.

Dominique Kirchner Reill is the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellow in Modern Italian Studies and an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Miami.

Joshua Colin Birk is the Millicent Mercer Johnsen Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellow in Medieval Studies and Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Smith College.