American Academy in Rome

OPEN STUDIOS 2026
MAY 28, 2026
6 - 10 PM
Garden Live Acts
7:30 - 9:15 PM

Wander through the Academy for an evening of open studios, installations, performances, readings, and music unfolding across the building, gardens, and historic spaces of the American Academy in Rome.

Begin in the front pavilions with studios by Liz Glynn , Jefferson Pinder , Heather Scott Peterson , and Heather Hart , some activated throughout the evening with live performative works. In the courtyard, encounter Andrea Fraser’s take-away poster project alongside installations from ‘Flight Paths’, on view across the gallery and surrounding spaces during Open Studios.

Continue through the Library and gardens with projects and conversations by Fellows Sean Mooney , Chuna McIntyre, Claudia Chemello, and Paul Mardikian before descending into the Cryptoporticus, transformed for the evening by Architecture Fellow Akima Brackeen .
Studios continue upstairs with works by Sean Burkholder & Karen Lutsky , Katharine Ogle & Adam Summers , Ginny Sims-Burchard , T.J. Dedeaux-Norris , Tameka Baba .baba , Mirko Andolina .andolina , and Cory Henry .

As the sun sets, gather in the garden from 7:30pm for live performances and readings featuring Oswald Huỳnh , Lembit Beecher , Marta de Pascalis .depas , David Keplinger , Maya Binyam , Trio Sheliak , Enzo Filippetti , Susanna Pagano, and Karen Ouzounian .

Food and drinks available throughout the evening:
• Pizzicarola —
• Hummustown —
• Pizza Baar — .roma
• Punto Mobile Agency —

OPEN STACKS
May 27
10:00 am–1:00 pm

This year’s program brings together a wide range of research organized around three thematic threads shaping the Fellows’ work: ‘Race Across Time’, ‘Bodies and the Work They Do’, and ‘Knowledge Across Geographies’. Moving between ancient Rome and the twentieth century, from medieval translation networks to early modern global trade routes, the presentations highlight how ideas, bodies, and systems of knowledge circulate across time and space.

Together, the talks emphasize research as an evolving process, opening up the questions, methods, and experiments that shape each Fellow’s work.

Ancient Studies
Cynthia Liu
Katherine Dennis
Paula Gaither
William Pedrick
Darcy Tuttle

East–West Intersection
Daniel J. Sheridan

Medieval Studies
John Mulhall
Nastasya Kosygina
Stefano Milonia

Modern Italian Studies
Charles Leavitt
Kevin Martín

Renaissance & Early Modern Studies
Eva Del Soldato
Margo H. Weitzman .6

OPEN ACADEMY
MAY 27 & 28
Via Angelo Masina, 5

Join us for two events celebrating the work of the 2026 Fellows of the American Academy in Rome.

May 27 | 10:00 am–1:00 pm
Open Stacks 2026: Scholars’ Presentations

Short presentations by Fellows in the humanities sharing research developed during their residency in Rome.

Scholars:
Eva del Soldato , Katherine Dennis , Cynthia Liu , Paula Gaither, Nastasya Kosygina, Charles Leavitt, Kevin Martín , Stefano Milonia , John Mulhall, William Pedrick, Daniel J. Sheridan , Darcy Tuttle , Margo H. Weitzman .6 .

May 28 | 6:00–10:00 pm
Open Studios 2026: Artists’ Showcase

Open studios, performances, readings, concerts, and live acts throughout the McKim, Mead & White Building and Bass Garden.

Artists:
Mirko Andolina .andolina , Tameka Baba .baba , Lembit Beecher , Maya Binyam , Jennifer Bornstein , Akima Brackeen , Sean Burkholder & Karen Lutsky , Claudia Chemello & Paul Mardikian , Marta de Pascalis .depas , T.J. Dedeaux-Norris , Andrea Fraser , Liz Glynn , Heather Hart udio , Cory Henry , Oswald Huỳnh , David Keplinger , Chuna McIntyre, Sean Mooney , Katharine Ogle & Adam Summers , Jefferson Pinder , Heather Scott Peterson , Ginny Sims-Burchard .

TOMORROW, MAY 12
LECTURE/CONVERSATION
Subhankar Banerjee and Cristiana Franco – Birds in Peril Across Centuries

Tuesday, May 12, 6:00 pm
Via Angelo Masina, 5

Free and open to the public.

Birds have long moved between worlds—myth and migration, companionship and extraction, survival and disappearance.

Organized alongside ‘Flight Paths’, this conversation brings together environmental humanist Subhankar Banerjee and classicist Cristiana Franco to reflect on the presence of birds across time, from the ancient Mediterranean to the fragile ecologies of the present.
Beginning in the Faroe Islands and extending across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, Banerjee’s lecture traces histories of ecological destruction alongside forms of resistance, restoration, and cultural renewal shaped by local communities. Franco’s presentation follows the circulation of the Indian parakeet in the ancient world, examining how the movement of species transformed relationships between humans and birds in the Mediterranean.

Together, the talks open a space to think about coexistence, displacement, memory, and the futures of more-than-human worlds.

The exhibition will be open from 5:00-8:00 in this special occasion.