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2021 Rome Prize Competition

Type: Awards, Grants, Fellowships [View all]
Posted by: American Academy in Rome
Deadline: Sun, November 1st, 2020

The American Academy in Rome invites applications for the 2021 Rome Prize competition!

For over a century, AAR has awarded the Rome Prize to support innovative and cross-disciplinary work in the arts and humanities. Each year, the prize is awarded to about thirty artists and scholars who represent the highest standard of excellence and who are in the early or middle stages of their careers.

Fellowships are awarded in the following disciplines:

Ancient studies

Architecture

Design: includes graphic, industrial, interior, exhibition, set, costume, and fashion design, urban design, city planning, engineering, and other design fields

Historic preservation and conservation

Landscape architecture: includes environmental design and planning, landscape/ecological urbanism, landscape history, sustainability and ecological studies, and geography

Literature: includes fiction, literary nonfiction, and poetry

Medieval studies

Modern Italian studies

Musical composition

Renaissance and early modern studies

Visual arts: includes painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, film and video, installation, new media, digital arts, and other visual-arts fields

Each Rome Prize winner is provided with a stipend, meals, a bedroom with private bath, and a private workspace. Those with children under eighteen live in partially subsidized apartments nearby. Winners of half- and full-term fellowships receive stipends of $16,000 and $28,000, respectively.

Rome Prize winners are the core of the Academy’s residential community, which includes Affiliated Fellows, Residents, and Visiting Artists and Scholars.

Please visit https://www.aarome.org/apply/rome-prize for more information and to begin your application.

Posted on Wed, September 16th, 2020
Expires on Sun, November 1st, 2020

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