A new cohort of 31 artists and academics have joined the 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.
This September, the latest group of Rome Prize awardees will start their residencies on the AAR’s historic 11-acre campus at Janiculum Hill. Each of them will be presented with the “time and space to think and work” through independent workspace, room and board, and stipends granted by the AAR as part of the highly competitive program, which spans 11 disciplines including architecture, landscape architecture, design, and historic preservation and conservation. This cycle, the AAR received a total of 1,106 applications from potential fellows—a record high—hailing from 46 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. Thirteen percent of these applicants were born outside of the U.S. The acceptance rate for this cycle was 2.9 percent, with 39 percent of the awardees identifying as persons of color.
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