American Academy in Rome Announces Residency Opportunities for Southern Artists

In celebration of the unique cultural contributions of the South, the American Academy in Rome announces a new project that will offer three-month residencies to Southern artists at the Academy's 11-acre facility atop Rome's highest hill, the Janiculum. The Academy has joined forces with the Southern Arts Federation to administer the program in nine Southern states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Eligible disciplines include musical composition, visual arts, architecture, conservation, graphic design, historic preservation, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, set design, urban design, and urban planning.

The program is supported, in part, by a challenge grant from the John and James L. Knight Foundation. Established in 1950, the Foundation makes national grants in journalism, education, and the field of arts and culture. It also supports organizations in communities where the Knight brothers were involved in publishing newspapers but is wholly separate from and independent of those newspapers. The Academy is seeking matching funds from corporate, foundation, and individual sources.

Beginning this year, and continuing through 1998, awards will be made to up to four Southern artists annually. Applications are due on October 9, 1995, and the first winners will be announced in the spring of 1996. Each artist will receive room and board, a studio, and a $6,000 stipend for a three-month residency in Rome.

The American Academy in Rome is the foremost American overseas center for independent study and advanced research in the fine arts and the humanities. In addition to its residency programs, the Academy offers exhibitions, concerts, lectures and symposia, a research library of 114,000 volumes, a series of summer programs, and other projects that serve more than 3,000 people each year.

The Southern Arts Federation, founded in 1975, is a nonprofit regional arts agency dedicated to providing leadership and support for the arts throughout the South. Arts education, multiculturalism, indigenous Southern arts, and underserved communities are SAF's four major priorities.

To receive guidelines and an application for the Southern Regional Visiting Arts Program, contact Lisa Richmond at the Southern Arts Federation, 181 14th Street NE, Suite 400, Atlanta, GA 30307; telephone 414-874-7244; fax 404-873-2148.

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