A fresh cohort of 36 artists and academics have joined the distinguished ranks of American creatives to be named as Rome Prize fellows by the American Academy in Rome (AAR), a United States Congress-incorporated nonprofit first established in 1894 under the leadership of architect Charles McKim that continues to serve today as America’s oldest independent overseas research institution for the arts and humanities. 

Beginning in September 2023, the newest group of Rome Prize awardees will descend on the AAR’s historic 11-acre campus at Janiculum Hill, each fellow bestowed with the “time and space to think and work” in the Eternal City via independent workspace, room and board, and stipends granted to them by the AAR as part of the highly competitive program. This cycle, the competition attracted a total of 998 applicants spanning a wide range of disciplines—11 in total—including architecture, landscape architecture, design, and historic preservation and conservation.