Now in its sixth edition, the International Prize ” Contemporary Generation”, promoted by the Luiss Creative Business Center, aims to promote contemporary Italian and foreign art, support artists under 35, and expand the permanent art collection of the Luiss Business School. International Award “Contemporary Generation” . The competition requires that candidate works develop a specific… Find out more
July 2021
Announcement
Andy Rocchelli Grant Award
The Cesura Collective, in order to honour his memory, has launched a call for entries for the International Andy Rocchelli Grant Award, a photojournalist killed in Ukraine in 2014. . The aim of the project is to identify the best unpublished photographic dummy, awarding the winner the production and publication of the book by Cesura… Find out more
Academy
Ragusa Foto Festival 20/21: Angelica Di Done finalist
The project “Luna quieres ser madre” by Angelica Di Done has been selected as a finalist for the first edition of the “Young Photographers from Italian Academies” organised by Ragusa Foto Festival. The aim of the Ragusa Foto Festival 20/21: to encourage comparison A total of nineteen Italian photography institutions responded to the call to… Find out more
Fine Arts
Research project for sustainable art with LCA and Beeopak
After a few months spent understanding the techniques involved, RUFA Visual Arts students are ready to impress. Beeswax is not only a material that is completely new to the eyes of the artists, but it is a challenge that brings together art and sustainability. And these are exactly the elements that intertwine in the exhibition… Find out more
Cinema
Dark Rome on SKY Cinema
The independent film by Andrés Rafael Zabal, coordinator of the bachelor of arts course at the RUFA Cinema School, “A Dark Rome” has been acquired by SKY Cinema for the NOW TV platform. A journey that began in 2014 and that has seen many students gradually turn into valued professionals. Many of those young people,… Find out more
Graphic design
Swawe – students workshop activities week
From 21 to 25 July 2021, in Rome, the first edition of Swawe, the Students Workshop Activities WEek, a new format conceived and organised by the group of AIAP students of Lazio, will take place. The event aims to recreate a strong and shared sociality, which has been lost due to the pandemic, around the… Find out more
Design
Piazze romane, 13 July at 21 a guided tour through texts and contexts
A walk through history, through the cultural stratification that only Rome can offer, but above all a tour of reflection induced by contemporary art. After the inauguration which took place last June, RUFA – Rome University of Fine Arts and the Municipio I Roma Centro have scheduled a second guided tour of the sites hosting… Find out more
Photography and Audiovisual
RUFA and Maiani Fashion Academy together in the name of the image
A collaboration between RUFA and Maiani launched a few months ago to combine two highly relevant aspects of the world of creativity. On the one hand, the ability to design the future starting with clothes and the contaminations that only the world of fashion is able to generate, and on the other, the communicative potential… Find out more
Announcement
Italian Emerging Comics Talent Award
The Directorate General for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris and the Italian Comics Festival Network, is launching the first edition of the “Italian Emerging Comics Talent Award”: a public notice for a residency programme abroad for young Italian scriptwriters, illustrators and colourists. The contest… Find out more
Academy
Fabio Mongelli re-elected president of Cians
With a unanimous vote, sealing the excellent work done, architect Fabio Mongelli, RUFA Director, was elected, for the second consecutive term, President of CIANS – Coordination of Non-State Afam Institutions. The CIANS was created in 2017 to facilitate collaboration between public and private entities and welcomes the leaders of some of the most important Afam… Find out more
Fine Arts
Piazze romane: new tour on 13 July
A new appointment with Piazze romane. After the inauguration that took place last June, RUFA – Rome University of Fine Arts and the Municipio I Roma Centro have scheduled a second guided tour of the squares and streets that host the works of contemporary art created by the students of the Academy. The importance of… Find out more
Fine Arts
JaguArt 2021: Camilla Gurgone is the winner
Camilla Gurgone is the fourth winner of JaguArt 2021. “JaguArt – The Italian Talent Road Show”, a search for young talent, is a project born from the dialogue between Artissima and Jaguar Land Rover Italia. “JaguArt”, over the years, has been able to carve out an increasingly important space for itself in relation to Contemporary… Find out more
Fine Arts
Research project for the artistic use of beeswax
A synergy to ensure that art and sustainability can be carriers of ideas and innovation. RUFA Department of Visual Arts, the company BEEOPAK and LCA Studio Legale have started a research project that intends to use the elements produced by bees as a means of expression. This is a very futuristic project that aims to… Find out more
Announcement
Rometti Prize 2021: the finalists
The finalists for the Rometti 2021 Award, the ninth edition of the international competition promoted by the Umbrian manufacturer, have been selected, and among them is our student Ilayda Caylan with the ‘People’ project, developed as part of the Product Design Course by lecturer Floriana Cannatelli. Despite a difficult academic year, no less than… Find out more
Academy
Cirro Cumulus competition: get to gather
RUFA – Rome University of Fine Arts, is a member of Cumulus, the leading global association serving education and research in the field of art and design. Cirro Cumulus is a group within the Association, created by and for students to share their vision and skills. The group launched a competition with the aim of… Find out more
Announcement
Ceprano: open call for the “Fragellae – La Piccola Scultura” award
Entries for the sixth edition of the Fragellae – The Small Sculpture Award, organised by the Municipality of Ceprano (Fr) in collaboration with a team comprising Luca Grossi, Sara Ciuffetta, Nazareno De Santis (artists), Pierluigi Bove (architect and designer), and curated by Ilaria Monti, are open until 15 July 2021. The competition, which is free… Find out more
Photography and Audiovisual
RUFA and AND, the traces of Dante in the hell of the Umberto I Polyclinic
In the name of Dante, the collaboration between RUFA and the National Academy of Dance continues, and seven hundred years after his death, the two institutions have generated a series of experiences to re-propose, in a contemporary key, the scenes from Inferno. The atmospheres are those of the Divine Comedy, but the settings can be… Find out more