Features

The visual artist Khaled Sabsabi has been awarded the Mordant Family and Creative Australia Affiliated Fellowship, granting him a two-month residency at the American Academy in Rome during the 2024–25 academic year.

At the American Academy in Rome, especially during the 1960s, Carnevale was an excuse for Fellows to let loose, and to open the Academy’s doors to Italian friends and visitors from other foreign academies.

George W. Houston, a professor in the Department of Classics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill from 1969 to 2005 and a 1969 Rome Prize Fellow, has died.

As part of AAR’s “Fellows in Focus” series, we highlight Fatma Bucak, the Turin-based artist and our 2024 Fondazione Sviluppo e Crescita CRT Italian Fellow in Visual Arts.

In recent months, Keech served on the design team for the Tenement Museum’s latest exhibition, A Union of Hope: 1869, completed late last year, and became the museum’s first exhibition to feature the home of a Black family.

The Academy is grateful to welcome the latest Rome Prize winners to the Eternal City.

The deadline to apply for the 2024 Classical Summer School has been extended. The new deadline is February 23, 2024. 

Evan Jewell (2023 Fellow) has been selected to be the new director of the Classical Summer School. 

Miranda E. Mote, our 2024 Fellow in landscape architecture, is bringing the outdoors in while welcoming some unlikely visitors to her studio: scores of children ages three to fifteen for specially designed classes that combine art, botany, and plant stories. 

At the center of the Roman Forum, often ignored by the tourists visiting the area, lies an archaeological treasure trove that holds secrets from the oldest days of Rome: the Regia. This remarkable site served as the subject of a major seminar held at the Curia Julia on Thursday.

The Academy’s Institutional Archive has published three new oral histories from the sculptor Gilbert Franklin, the artist Robert B. Green, and the classicists Lawrence Richardson Jr. and Emeline Hill Richardson. 

The two-faced deity Janus is associated with thresholds, beginnings, and transitions—an apt mascot for AAR, which represents a symbolic threshold between America and Europe, and between past and future.

Malcolm Bell III (1970 Fellow, 1989 Resident), a widely admired archaeologist, a longtime field director of excavations at Morgantina in Sicily, and an international advocate for the protection of cultural heritage, has died.

We are pleased to announce the publication of volume 68 of the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, AAR’s annual peer-reviewed journal.

As we prepare to usher in a new year, AAR revisits the 2023 calendar year and the highlights of our Fellows’ work.

AAR spoke with the art historian Diane Cole Ahl (2013 Resident), author of the recently published Painting in Fifteenth-Century Italy: “This Splendid and Noble Art” from Yale University Press.

Take a glimpse into our annual Winter Open Studios event.

On December 5, the eighth edition of the Bridge Book Award took place with an award ceremony at Centro Studi Americani in Rome. 

Nearly a century ago, AAR Director Gorham Stevens rushed to avert a duel between an Italian officer and a Fellow.

In remembrance of 1958 Rome Prize Fellow Ann Freeman, the Academy’s Institutional Archive is delighted to share her “A Christmas Poem” from 1956.