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Full-term and half-term Rome Prize Fellowships are available in visual arts. Applicants must demonstrate at least three years of professional commitment and currently be engaged in the discipline. Applicants working in art and technology are also encouraged to apply.
Included in visual arts: painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, film/video, installation, new media, digital arts, and other visual arts–related fields.

Required Application Materials

A completed online application form and the following two documents, to be uploaded to your online application as two separate digital files.

1. Current résumé/curriculum vitae

2. One-page proposal describing the project to be undertaken. Please be sure to address the following points/questions in your proposal:
  • How will the proposed project and your own professional development will benefit from a residency within a multidisciplinary community in Rome?
  • What guides or motivates your work?
  • Rome is a modern city powerfully stamped by the material remains of the past. Is this past important to your present? If so, why?
  • What, if any, resources in Rome or Italy will be significant to the completion of your proposed project?
  • What kind of workspace do you need in Rome?
Your proposal should be double-spaced with 10- to 12-point typeface and one-inch margins.

3. Work sample(s): digital images and/or video. See the Work Sample Specifications below.

Also needed are three references. Provide the names and contact information only for three professionals acquainted with you and your work. Letters of recommendation are not required for applicants in visual arts.

Finally, you must submit an application fee paid by credit card through our online payment option or by check or money order made payable to American Academy in Rome. Send to the address below.

Work Sample Specifications for Digital Images

A maximum of eighteen digital JPEG images may be uploaded with the application. Images will be shown two at a time, side by side. In the initial screening, jurors view only the first six images.

Formatting your digital images:
  • Images must be in JPEG format with .jpg extension
  • The longest side (height and/or width) of each image should be a minimum of 1240 pixels
  • The maximum size for each image file is 10 MB
Work Sample Specifications for Video

Video work samples will be accepted from applicants who are submitting time-based work such as film, video, performance art, new media, kinetic sculpture, installation, etc. Do not submit a video of still images, slideshows, or videos of you at work. Applicants submitting video are not required to submit digital images.

Submit up to three samples totaling no more than ten minutes in length. Choose one of the following:
  • One sample totaling no more than ten minutes; or
  • A selection of excerpts from one work edited together and totaling no more than ten minutes, or
  • Up to three separate samples from different works, totaling no more than ten minutes

Full-term and half-term Rome Prize Fellowships are available in literature. Applicants must demonstrate professional commitment and be currently engaged in work in the discipline. To be eligible, applicants must have commercially published, between January 1, 2019, and November 15, 2025, one of the following.

Included in literature: fiction, literary nonfiction, and poetry.

For applicants in fiction and literary nonfiction:
  • A novel or novella; or
  • A volume of creative nonfiction; or
  • A volume of short fiction or a collection of short stories
For applicants in poetry:
  • A volume of forty-eight or more pages of poetry
  • To qualify, submitted work must have been first published between the dates listed above, not only reprinted or reissued in another format during this period
Additional Criteria for All Applicants in Literature
The following may not be used to establish eligibility:
  • Self-published books
  • Work that has appeared in a publication for which you are the editor, publisher, or staff
  • Any publication by presses that: require individual writers to pay for part or all of the production costs; require writers to buy or sell copies of the publication; publish work without competitive selection or a stated editorial policy; or publish work without professional editing
Required Application Materials

A completed online application form and the following documents, to be uploaded to your online application as separate digital files.
1. Current résumé/curriculum vitae.
2. One-page proposal describing the project to be undertaken. Please address the following questions in your proposal:
  • How will the proposed project and your own professional development will benefit from a residency within a multidisciplinary community in Rome?
  • What guides or motivates your work?
  • Rome is a modern city powerfully stamped by the material remains of the past. Is this past important to your present? If so, why?
  • What, if any, resources in Rome or Italy will be significant to the completion of your proposed project?
  • What kind of workspace do you need in Rome?
Your proposal should be 10- to 12-point typeface with one-inch margins.

3. Up to three writing samples totaling no more than twenty pages. This may be one sample totaling no more than twenty pages; a selection of excerpts from one work totaling no more than twenty pages; or up to three separate samples from different works, totaling no more than twenty pages.

Also needed are three references. Provide the names and contact information only for three professionals acquainted with you and your work. Letters of recommendation are not required for applicants in literature.

Finally, you must submit an application fee paid by credit card through our online payment option

Half-term Rome Prize Fellowships are available in design. All applicants must hold an accredited degree and be practicing in the discipline. Applicants should submit materials that best display their qualifications and experience in the field of design.
Included in design: graphic, industrial, interior, exhibition, set, costume, and fashion design, urban design, city planning, engineering, and other design-related fields.

Required Application Materials

A completed online application form and the following documents, to be uploaded to your online application as separate digital files.
1. Current résumé/curriculum vitae.
2. One-page proposal describing the project to be undertaken. Please address the following questions in your proposal:
  • How will the proposed project and your own professional development will benefit from a residency within a multidisciplinary community in Rome?
  • What guides or motivates your work?
  • Rome is a modern city powerfully stamped by the material remains of the past. Is this past important to your present? If so, why?
  • What, if any, resources in Rome or Italy will be significant to the completion of your proposed project?
  • What kind of workspace do you need in Rome?
Your proposal should be 10- to 12-point typeface with one-inch margins.

3. Digital portfolio (in PDF format) of up to forty pages, in horizontal/landscape orientation, highlighting the applicant’s concerns and interests in work to date. Work included should be the sole product of the applicant, or substantially the product of the applicant with the applicant’s role in the work clearly noted. The jury has limited time, so applicants should make their portfolio succinct and easy to understand. If the PDF file exceeds the 20 MB upload limit, the applicant should send the portfolio on a USB drive to the address listed below.

American Academy in Rome
Attention: Design
535 West 22nd Street, Third Floor
New York, NY 10011

Also needed are reference letters from professionals acquainted with you and your work. Recommenders will be asked to submit their letters electronically through our online system.

Finally, you must submit an application fee paid by credit card through our online payment option.


Full-term and half-term Rome Prize Fellowships are available in architecture and landscape architecture. All applicants must hold an accredited degree and be practicing in the discipline. Applicants should submit materials that best display their qualifications and experience. Jurors review a wide range of materials in this category and should be able to clearly understand not only the candidate’s background but the candidate’s philosophical approach to their work and the professional trajectory they are pursuing.

Included in landscape architecture: environmental design and planning, landscape/ecological urbanism, landscape history, sustainability and ecological studies, and geography.

Required Application Materials

A completed online application form and the following documents, to be uploaded to your online application as separate digital files.
1. Current résumé/curriculum vitae.
2. One-page proposal describing the project to be undertaken. Please address the following questions in your proposal:
  • How will the proposed project and your own professional development will benefit from a residency within a multidisciplinary community in Rome?
  • What guides or motivates your work?
  • Rome is a modern city powerfully stamped by the material remains of the past. Is this past important to your present? If so, why?
  • What, if any, resources in Rome or Italy will be significant to the completion of your proposed project?
  • What kind of workspace do you need in Rome?
Your proposal should be 10- to 12-point typeface with one-inch margins.

3. Digital portfolio (in PDF format) of up to forty pages, in horizontal/landscape orientation, highlighting the applicant’s concerns and interests in work to date. Work included should be the sole product of the applicant, or substantially the product of the applicant with the applicant’s role in the work clearly noted. The jury has limited time, so applicants should make their portfolio succinct and easy to understand. If the PDF file exceeds the 20 MB upload limit, the applicant should send the portfolio on a USB drive to the address listed below.

Also needed are three reference letters from professionals acquainted with you and your work. Recommenders will be asked to submit their letters electronically through our online system.

Finally, you must submit an application fee paid by credit card through our online payment option.

If required, USB drives should be mailed to: 

American Academy in Rome
Attention: Architecture & Landscape Architecture
535 West 22nd Street, Third Floor
New York, NY 10011

The Academy invites pre- and postdoctoral applicants to submit proposals in archaeology, classics, history, the history of art and architecture, economic and political policy, literature, musicology, theory, and other relevant fields. Please note that these categories are not intended to be exclusive. Any approach or combination of approaches to these disciplines will be considered. Cross-cultural projects that share Rome and its influences are also welcome. We welcome interdisciplinary work on historic and contemporary issues across the humanities that include one or more of the chronological periods listed below:

Ancient Studies
Through the sixth century.

Medieval Studies
The sixth through fourteenth centuries.

Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
The fourteenth through eighteenth centuries.

Modern Italian Studies
The eighteenth century to the present.

Predoctoral Fellowships
The Academy offers full-term predoctoral Rome Prize fellowships (of approximately ten months) in the categories listed above. These fellowships are meant to provide scholars with the necessary time to research and write their doctoral dissertations. Applicants for predoctoral fellowships must have fulfilled all predissertation requirements; they should also have preferably completed a draft of the first chapter of their dissertation, by the application deadline.

Postdoctoral Fellowships
The Academy offers full-term (approximately ten months) and half-term (approximately five months) postdoctoral fellowships in the fields listed above. All applicants for postdoctoral fellowships must hold a PhD at the time of application.

Applicants for the Academy postdoctoral fellowships may be either a U.S. Citizen or a
foreign national who has lived in the US for the three years immediately preceding the
application deadline. Applicants may hold any academic rank or be independent scholars.

Required Application Materials

A completed online application form and the following documents, to be uploaded to your online application as separate digital files.
1. Current résumé/curriculum vitae. Please include languages read and spoken and level of fluency.
2. Four-page proposal describing the project to be undertaken. Please address the following questions in your proposal:
  • How will the proposed project and your own professional development will benefit from a residency within a multidisciplinary community in Rome?
  • What guides or motivates your work?
  • Rome is a modern city powerfully stamped by the material remains of the past. Is this past important to your present? If so, why?
  • What, if any, resources in Rome or Italy will be significant to the completion of your proposed project?
  • What kind of workspace do you need in Rome?
Your proposal should be 10- to 12-point typeface with one-inch margins.

Please include bibliographical notes for any sources cited (not counted toward the four-page limit). Your proposal should be 10- to 12-point typeface with one-inch margins.

3. Writing sample: this may be up to twenty pages and should be in the proposed field of study. Please include bibliography and footnotes (not counted toward the page limit).

Also needed are three reference letters from professionals acquainted with you and your work. Recommenders will be asked to submit their letters electronically through our online system.

Finally, you must submit an application fee paid by credit card through our online payment option.

Applicants wishing to be considered in more than one field must complete an online application for each category.

Applicants for full-term Rome Prize Fellowships in musical composition must demonstrate professional commitment and be currently engaged in the discipline.

Required Application Materials

A completed online application form and the following documents, to be uploaded to your online application as separate digital files.
1. Current résumé/curriculum vitae. Please include languages read and spoken and level of fluency.
2. One-page proposal describing the project to be undertaken. Please address the following questions in your proposal:
  • How will the proposed project and your own professional development will benefit from a residency within a multidisciplinary community in Rome?
  • What guides or motivates your work?
  • Rome is a modern city powerfully stamped by the material remains of the past. Is this past important to your present? If so, why?
  • What, if any, resources in Rome or Italy will be significant to the completion of your proposed project?
  • What kind of workspace do you need in Rome?
Your proposal should be 10- to 12-point typeface with one-inch margins.

3. Musical scores for at least two but not more than three compositions from within the past five years. If your work is unscorable, please provide lead sheets or other explanatory material. Handwritten scores should be scanned and uploaded.

4. Recordings of at least two but not more than three compositions from within the past five years. Recordings should be hosted online, either on SoundCloud or another file-hosting site. Links to the recordings should be included in the online application form. Please note if any performances are MIDI realizations.

Also needed are three references. Provide the names and contact information only for three professionals acquainted with you and your work. Letters of recommendation are not required for applicants in music composition.

Finally, you must submit an application fee paid by credit card through our online payment option.

Full-term and half-term Rome Prize Fellowships are available to professionals in historic preservation and conservation who are actively engaged in their fields.

These awards are intended for a broad range of individuals who work on the conservation and historic preservation of works of art, manuscripts, or cultural properties (including architecture, engineering, planning and design, urban design, or landscape architecture), and those who work in cultural policy. Applicants are encouraged to submit materials that best express the quality of what they do and how they think.

Required Application Materials

The required application materials include a completed online application form and the following three documents, to be uploaded to your online application as three separate digital files:

1. Current résumé/curriculum vitae. Please include languages read and spoken and level of fluency.

2. One- to four-page proposal describing the project to be undertaken. Please be sure to address the following points/questions in your proposal:
  • How will the proposed project and your own professional development will benefit from a residency within a multidisciplinary community in Rome?
  • What guides or motivates your work?
  • Rome is a modern city powerfully stamped by the material remains of the past. Is this past important to your present? If so, why?
  • What, if any, resources in Rome or Italy will be significant to the completion of your proposed project?
  • What kind of workspace do you need in Rome?
Please include bibliographical notes for any sources cited (not counted toward the four-page limit). Your proposal should be 10- to 12-point typeface with one-inch margins.

3. Work Sample (e.g., portfolio, essay, publication, etc.) of up to forty pages in PDF format which characterizes the applicant’s approach to their work. Work submitted should be the sole product of the applicant, or substantially the product of the applicant with the applicant’s role in the work clearly noted. The jury has limited time, so applicants should make their portfolio succinct and easy to understand. If the PDF exceeds the 20 MB upload limit, please send the work sample on USB drive to the address listed below.

American Academy in Rome
Attention: Historic Preservation & Conservation
535 West 22nd Street, Third Floor
New York, NY 10011

Also needed are three reference letters from professionals acquainted with you and your work. Recommenders will be asked to submit their letters electronically through our online system.

Finally, you must submit an application fee paid by credit card through our online payment option.

The Rome Prize for Environmental Arts & Humanities is designed specifically for collaborative efforts. We encourage applications from artists and scholars working jointly on projects that help expand our understanding of the way human beings relate to, experience, or process their encounters with the natural world. Collaborative pairs may include artists of any sort (visual, digital, architectural, musical, literary, textile, performance) and scholars in any field (past, present, future, natural world, human world). The two winners of this Rome Prize will each receive a full stipend, their own individual living space, and will be invited to join the Rome Sustainable Food Program for meals. The winners will share a workspace. Applicants must demonstrate a preexisting working partnership to be considered for this fellowship and, as with all Rome Prize Fellowships, applicants have to make clear why this work needs to be done in Rome.

Applicants may apply for a full-term fellowship (about ten months) or a half-term fellowship (about five months).

Required Application Materials

The required application materials include a completed online application form and the following three documents, to be uploaded to your online application as three separate digital files:

1. Current résumé/curriculum vitae. Please include languages read and spoken and level of fluency.

2. One- to four-page proposal describing the project to be undertaken. Please be sure to address the following points/questions in your proposal:
  • How will the proposed project and your own professional development will benefit from a residency within a multidisciplinary community in Rome?
  • What guides or motivates your work?
  • Rome is a modern city powerfully stamped by the material remains of the past. Is this past important to your present? If so, why?
  • What, if any, resources in Rome or Italy will be significant to the completion of your proposed project?
  • What kind of workspace do you need in Rome?
Please include bibliographical notes for any sources cited (not counted toward the four-page limit). Your proposal should be 10- to 12-point typeface with one-inch margins.

3. Work sample. If your work is primarily text based, please submit a writing sample–published or unpublished–of up to twenty pages. Be sure to include a bibliography and footnotes (not counted toward the page limit). If your work is a mixture of text and images, sound, and/or video, please submit a portfolio of up to forty pages with links to online video and audio files.

Also needed are three reference letters from professionals acquainted with you and your work. Recommenders will be asked to submit their letters electronically through our online system.

Finally, you must submit an application fee paid by credit card through our online payment option

This full-term fellowship supports a scholar working on the historical intersection of East and West in arts, ideas, and attitudes with particular attention to comparative research about philosophical worldviews and their cultural expression.

We are interested in projects that explore existential questions that cross cultures and time periods and are relevant to all humanities subjects. Philosophical tenets animate the world around us and are evident in art, architecture, and literature, as well as in the writing of history itself.

Proposed projects should contribute to the history of ideas, to a better understanding of the connections and collisions between East and West, and draw on the experience of Rome as a crossroads.

Both predoctoral candidates and postdoctoral scholars are eligible for this fellowship. Preference will be given to the most compelling project that would benefit from time in Rome.

Required Application Materials

The required application materials include a completed online application form and the following three documents, to be uploaded to your online application as three separate digital files:

1. Current résumé/curriculum vitae. Please include languages read and spoken and level of fluency.

2. Four-page proposal describing the project to be undertaken. Please be sure to address the following points/questions in your proposal:
  • How will the proposed project and your own professional development will benefit from a residency within a multidisciplinary community in Rome?
  • What guides or motivates your work?
  • Rome is a modern city powerfully stamped by the material remains of the past. Is this past important to your present? If so, why?
  • What, if any, resources in Rome or Italy will be significant to the completion of your proposed project?
  • What kind of workspace do you need in Rome?
Please include bibliographical notes for any sources cited (not counted toward the four-page limit). Your proposal should be 10- to 12-point typeface with one-inch margins.

3. Writing sample. This may be up to twenty pages and should be in the proposed field of study. Please include bibliography and footnotes (not counted toward the page limit).

Also needed are three reference letters from professionals acquainted with you and your work. Recommenders will be asked to submit their letters electronically through our online system.

Finally, you must submit an application fee paid by credit card through our online payment option

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