The American Academy in Rome invites applications for 2015 The Rome Prize.

The deadline is November 1, 2014. Rome Prize winners live and work at the Academy’s eleven-acre campus in Rome and receive a stipend, room and board, and a study or studio. Stipends for six-month fellowships are $16,000 and stipends for eleven-month fellowships are $28,000.

Each year, through a national juried competition, the Rome Prize is awarded to emerging and established artists and scholars working in the following categories:

• Ancient Studies
• Medieval Studies
• Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
• Modern Italian Studies
• 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)
• Musical Composition
• Visual Arts (includes painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, film/video, installation, new media, digital arts, and other visual arts fields)

For more information, including application instructions, follow the link to the prize’s post on the AHA Calendar of Events here.

The AHA offers a free calendar to advertise awards, meetings, and exhibits. Submit items at http://bit.ly/1m0B8qk 

This post first appeared on AHA Today.