Andrew Heiskell Arts Director

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Term:Three-yearappointment,renewableforuptotwoadditionalyears.StartdateAugust 2027.
Foundedin1894,theAmericanAcademyinRomeisaleadingAmericanoverseascenter for independent study and advanced research in the arts and humanities. Each year, the Academy awards the Rome Prize to approximately 30 artists and scholars who join a dynamic, transdisciplinary residential community on the Academy’s eleven-acre campus on the Janiculum Hill—enriched further by invited Residents and Affiliated and Visiting Artists and Scholars, reaching a community of approximately 100 at any given time.
TheAcademyisledbythePresident&CEO;,whosetsitsdirectionandservesasitschief fundraiser and public representative. A Chief Operating Officer manages the Academy’s business and administrative functions across Rome and New York. The Director is responsible for the daily intellectual and communal life of the residential community. The Andrew Heiskell Arts Director and Andrew W. Mellon Humanities Professor report to the Director and, together with the Director,



constitute the Academy’s intellectual leadership team in Rome—the primary intellectual resources for the Rome Prize Fellows and the animating force behind the Academy’s scholarly and creative life.
Role The Andrew Heiskell Arts Director is a member of the Academy’s intellectual leadership team. This is a role for a practitioner or scholarof genuine distinction—someone with an established reputation in one of theAcademy’sartsdisciplines,therangetoengagewith work across artistic and humanistic fields, and the commitment to place their intellectual life in service of a community.
The Arts Director works alongside the Director and the Humanities Professor to shape the Academy’s intellectual vision in Rome. Their primary institutional responsibility is to the Rome Prize Fellows: offering creative creativeandscholarlyguidance,facilitating engagementwith Rome’s artistic and cultural communities, and helping Fellows make the most of their time at the Acade

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