On this episode of The Emergence Room, we had the pleasure of talking with educator, researcher, and designer Iman Fayyad, whose work moves through conceptual drawing, sustainability, pedagogy, and spatial imagination with remarkable energy and curiosity.
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On this episode of The Emergence Room, we had the pleasure of talking with performance artist Jefferson Pinder, 2026 Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome, whose work moves between performance, sculpture, video, theater, ritual, and social history with extraordinary emotional and political force.
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New episode of The Emergence Room featuring Katharine Ogle, poet, scholar, mother, educator, and 2026 Rome Prize Fellow in Environmental Arts & Humanities at the American Academy in Rome. Katharine’s collaborative project with biologist Adam Summers, Piscis Romana, reimagines the field guide, the poem, and the scientific archive all at once: part bestiary, part walking guide, part ecological meditation.
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On this episode of The Emergence Room, we had the pleasure of talking with Adam Summers, scientist, educator, explorer, and 2026 Rome Prize Fellow in Environmental Arts & Humanities at the American Academy in Rome. Adam can almost always be found somewhere around the Academy wearing one of his now iconic fish shirts, which at this point feel less like clothing and more like a long-running conceptual art piece disguised as field biology.
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