Mission

The American Academy in Rome is one of the leading American overseas centers for independent study and advanced research in the fine arts and the humanities. Through its annual Rome Prize fellowship program, the Academy supports up to thirty individuals working in archaeology, architecture, classical studies, design arts, historic preservation and conservation, history of art, landscape architecture, literature, modern Italian studies, musical composition, post-classical humanistic studies and visual arts. Each year a number of Academy events, including concerts, symposia, readings and exhibitions, take place both in New York and Rome. These are open to the public, as is the annual exhibition of the work of the Fellows, whose catalogue is published annually.