Rome, Italy Reports to Director Term: Three-year appointment, renewable for up to two additional years. Start date: August 2027
Role
The Andrew Heiskell Arts Director is a member of the Academy’s intellectual leadership team. This is a role for a practitioner or scholar of genuine distinction—someone with an established reputation in one of the Academy’s arts disciplines, the range to engage with 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 and scholarly guidance, facilitating engagement with Rome’s artistic and cultural communities, and helping Fellows make the most of their time at the Academy. The Arts Director brings particular depth to the arts disciplines represented at the Academy—architecture, design, landscape architecture, literature, musical composition,



and visual art—while engaging generously with Fellows across the full breadth of the residential community. But for the Arts Director to fully embody the role the Academy needs them to be active in critical, creative, or curatorial work at the highest level.
Intellectual Leadership and Support of the Fellows (60%) Serve as a primary intellectual resource for Rome Prize Fellows across the Academy’s arts disciplines—architecture, design, landscape architecture, literature, musical composition, and visual art—offering creative and scholarly guidance, substantive engagement with Fellows’ work, and mentorship calibrated to each Fellow’s stage of career and project.
Work in close partnership with the Director and the Humanities Professor to foster intellectual exchange across disciplines; encourage and facilitate dialogue among Fellows, Residents, Italian Fellows, and Affiliated and Visiting Artists and Scholars.
Facili

📌 Andrew Heiskell Arts Director (Roma)
🏢 National Museum of Wildlife Art
📍 Roma