The American Academy in Rome has announced the winners of the 2011–2012 Rome Prize. Recipients of the 115th annual Rome Prize competition are provided with a fellowship that includes a stipend, a study or studio, and room and board for a period of six months to two years in Rome, Italy. Each year, through a national competition, the Rome Prize is awarded to approximately thirty individuals.

The Rome Prize is a prestigious American award made annually by the American Academy in Rome, through a national competition, to 15 emerging artists (working in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Design, Historic Preservation and Conservation, Literature, Musical Composition, or Visual Arts) and to 15 scholars (working in Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance and early Modern, or Modern Italian Studies). They are announced annually in New York City.[1]

Rome Prize winners go to the American Academy, situated on the Janiculum, Rome's highest hill. The American Academy in Rome was established in 1894 and chartered by an Act of the United States Congress in 1905.

The ideal of community is fundamental to the American Academy. Fellowship winners come to Rome to refine and expand their own professional, artistic or scholarly aptitudes, drawing on their colleagues' erudition and experience, as well as on the resources of Rome, Europe and the Mediterranean.

The Academy offers the opportunity to examine firsthand the source of Western humanistic heritage, and to engage in a dialogue with Rome's culture. Time spent at the Academy — stimulated in part by varied walks, talks, tours and trips, a stream of distinguished international visitors and spontaneous table talk — allows residents to enter into informed discourse with this past and to draw upon it for their individual explorations.

The Academy's main building contains most of the studios, studies and residences of the Rome Prize winners, the Library, dining facilities and administrative offices, as well as exhibition galleries, communal spaces, a dark room and archaeology facilities. The Academy facilities also include extensive gardens and additional buildings.

The 2011–2012 winners are:

Albert Paul Albano

Aaron S. Allen

Margaret Marshall Andrews

Paola Bonifazio

Bradford Albert Bouley

Benjamin David Brand

Angela Co

Lonn Combs

Beatriz del Cueto

Jennifer R. Davis

Matt Donovan

Sean Friar

Colin Gee

Elliott Green

Jiminie Ha

Albertus G. A. Horsting

Mary Reid Kelley

Sean Lally

Lei Liang

Siobhan Liddell

Craig Martin

Camille S. Mathieu

Jackie Murray

Suzanne Rivecca

David A. Rubin

Jenny Snider

Heidi Wendt