For over a century, the American Academy in Rome has awarded the Rome Prize  https://www.aarome.org/apply  to support innovative and cross-disciplinary work in the arts and humanities. Rome Prize Fellowships include a stipend, room and board, and an individual work space at AAR’s eleven-acre campus in Rome. 

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/video, installation, new media, digital arts, and other visual-arts fields)