American Academy in Rome announces 2016-17 Rome Prize winners + Italian Fellows

It's that time of year again when The American Academy in Rome announces the winners of the Rome Prize. The prestigious annual fellowship supports the independent endeavors of young artists and scholars working in the arts and humanities. Awards are given to scholars working in the following disciplines supported by the Academy: Literature, Music Composition, Visual Arts, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Design, and Historic Preservation and Conservation, as well as Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance and Early Modern, and Modern Italian Studies.

A jury of distinguished peers evaluated nearly 900 applications from 46 U.S. States, Washington D.C., and Puerto Rico before selecting the 31 winners for 2016. The winners were honored during the Rome Prize Ceremony at the Kaplan Hall Auditorium at the New School in New York. Winners then receive a stipend, workspace, and room and board at the Academy's 11-acre campus in Rome, where they can pursue their work for a period spanning from six months up to two years.

Additionally, six more winners were revealed as the 2016-17 Italian Fellows. The program selects Italian artists and scholars to live and work collaboratively in the Academy community alongside their American counterparts.

The 2016–2017 Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows:

ARCHITECTURE

• Founders Rome Prize: PHU HOANG & RACHELY ROTEM
• Arnold W. Brunner Rome Prize: ROBERT HUTCHISON
  
• Founders/Arnold W. Brunner/ Katherine Edwards Gordon Rome Prize: YASMIN VOBIS

DESIGN

• Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize: KYLE DECAMP
• Mark Hampton Rome Prize: DAVID REINFURT

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

• Prince Charitable Trusts/Kate Lancaster Brewster Rome Prize: KRISTI CHERAMIE
• Garden Club of America Rome Prize: JASON SIEBENMORGEN

HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION

• Booth Family Rome Prize: GREGORY BAILEY
• Charles K. Williams II Rome Prize: STELLA NAIR

ANCIENT STUDIES

• Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman/ National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Rome Prize: DORIAN BORBONUS
• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize: CAROLINE CHEUNG
• Andrew Heiskell Post-Doctoral Rome Prize: KEVIN DICUS
• Arthur Ross Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize: ANDREW HORNE
• Emeline Hill Richardson/ Samuel H. Kress Foundation/ Helen M. Woodruff Fellowship of the Archaeological Institute of America Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize: JENNY R. KREIGER
  
• Irene Rosenzweig/Lily Auchincloss/ Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize: SOPHIE CRAWFORD WATERS

LITERATURE

• John Guare Writer’s Fund Rome Prize, a gift of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman: JACK LIVINGS
• Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, a gift of the Drue Heinz Trust/American Academy of Arts and Letters: MATTHEW NEILL NULL
  

MEDIEVAL STUDIES

• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation PostDoctoral Rome Prize in Medieval Studies: HUSSEIN FANCY
• Marian and Andrew Heiskell/Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize: JOHN LANSDOWNE
• Phyllis W.G. Gordan/Lily Auchincloss/ Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize: JOSEPH WILLIAMS

MODERN ITALIAN STUDIES

• National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Rome Prize: JESSICA MARGLIN
• Donald and Maria Cox Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize: DANIELLE SIMON

MUSICAL COMPOSITION

• Elliott Carter Rome Prize: JONATHAN BERGER
• Luciano Berio Rome Prize: CHRISTOPHER TRAPANI
  

RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES

• Anthony M. Clark Post-Doctoral Rome Prize: KATHLEEN CHRISTIAN
• Jesse Howard, Jr./Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Rome Prize: ROBERT JOHN CLINES
• Paul Mellon/Frank Brown Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize: LEON P. GREK

VISUAL ARTS

• Henry W. and Marian T. Mitchell/ Miss Edith Bloom Fund Rome Prize: E. V. DAY
• Chuck Close/Gilmore D. Clarke/ Michael I. Rapuano/ John Armstrong Chaloner Rome Prize: NICOLE MILLER
  
• Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize: MICHAEL QUEENLAND
  
• Jules Guerin Rome Prize: ENRICO RILEY
  

2016-17 ITALIAN FELLOWS

• Enel Italian Fellow in Architecture/Landscape Architecture: ANNALISA METTA
• Italian Fellow in Literature: ANDREA BAJANI
• Italian Fellow in Modern Studies: MILENA BELLONI
• Cy Twombly Italian Fellow in Visual Arts: TOMASO DE LUCA
• Franco Zeffirelli Italian Fellow in Musicology: GIUSEPPE SERGI
• Italian Fellow in Medieval Studies: SILVIA ARMANDO