(AUBURN, ALA) — Magdalena Garmaz, an associate professor in the School of Architecture, and her husband Zdenko Krtic, an associate professor in Art, have been invited to spend two weeks in December at the American Academy in Rome as part of the academy’s Visiting Artists and Scholars Program.
Garmaz and Krtic applied jointly, but with individual projects. Garmaz will study a series of architectural enclosure systems while combining it with parallel investigations of the textiles and the role it has played in the development of Roman architecture. Krtic will work on a series of prints and drawings using the city as a lab. His work will focus on the tenuous and changing relationships between temporary constructs and permanent architectural and artistic monuments in the urban environment, as exemplified in the scaffoldings and the way they can alter our perception.
The American Academy in Rome is one of the leading American overseas centers for independent study and advanced research in the fine arts and the humanities. While the Academy is composed of two historic disciplines, the arts and the humanities, it does not have a faculty, a curriculum or a student body. The artists and scholars in residence at the Academy are there to pursue their own independent projects.
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