The Fondazione Sicilia and the American Academy in Rome have announced the selection of the inaugural Fondazione Sicilia Affiliated Fellowships at the American Academy in Rome following a competitive selection process. In the category of visual arts, the artist duo Antonella Genuardi and Leonardo Ruta won. In the humanities competition, the scholar Gaia Nuccio was victorious.

Genuardi and Ruta stood out for their profoundly collaborative practice—an approach that aligns with the Academy’s mission and values. Their project, entitled Le trombe d’oro della solarità (The golden trumpets of sunlight), focuses on Pierluigi Nervi’s architecture and technical design. This topic is particularly relevant to Rome, a city that boasts some of Nervi’s most innovative structures and that also houses his archive, at the MAXXI Museum.