Atlanta dance-maker Lauri Stallings is a finalist for Rome Prize

The gloATL founder will be considered for one of the art world’s most prestigious awards

Image Atlanta-based choreographer and gloATL founder Lauri Stallings has been nominated for the Rome Prize, one of the art world’s most prestigious awards. Each year, the American Academy in Rome, Italy, awards the prize to thirty emerging artists and scholars in the early or middle stages of their careers. Each winner is provided with a stipend, meals, a bedroom, and a study or studio at the American Academy’s headquarters in a villa on the Janiculum hill in Rome for six to eleven months. Stallings heard last week via an email from the President of the American Academy that she was being considered. “I thought it was a joke,” she says.