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Each year thirty Rome Prize Fellowships are awarded to talented early-to-mid career artists, architects, designers, historians, musicians and scholars to live and work at the American Academy in Rome. The fellowship provides a stipend, meals, a bedroom with private bath, and a study or studio.
The Rome Prize Fellowship accepts applications from a wide array of disciplines including: architecture, design, historic preservation and conservation, landscape architecture, literature, musical composition, visual arts, ancient studies, medieval studies, renaissance and early modern studies and modern Italian studies.
The Rome Prize Fellowship winners are invited to Rome for either 6 or 11 months, provided a stipend of $14,000 or $26,000, respectively, and are provided with a once in a lifetime opportunity to expand their professional, artistic, or scholarly pursuits, drawing on their colleagues’ erudition and experience and on the inestimable resources that Italy, Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Academy have to offer.
To be eligible for the Rome Prize Fellowship you must be a U.S. citizen. Additional eligibility requirements vary by discipline and include things such as years of relevant work experience and post-graduate education. For more information about the Rome Prize Fellowship, please visit the website.
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NIAUSI Fellowships offer residency in the beautiful and rustic hill town of Civita di Bagnoregio, Italy. The fellowships are for active architecture and design professionals practicing in the states of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho and the province of British Columbia. NIAUSI offers one and two month fellowships, each having different eligibility requirements.
The Astra Zarina Fellowship is a two month fellowship which covers the costs of restricted coach-class airfare for one person, a $1,500 stipend, and lodging for two months at the Civita Institute. Recipients of the One Month Fellowship receive lodging for one month at the Civita Institute, but are responsible for their own financial support and travel.
The primary mission of NIAUSI is to promote public discussion of issues related to the built environment. In addition to the once in a lifetime opportunity to live and work at the Civita Institute, NIAUSI Fellows also get to promote their work through organized presentations, exhibitions, articles and publications, and more. To learn more about these unique fellowships please visit the official website.
The Enterprise Rose Architecture Fellowship is a three-year program that provides early-career architects with an opportunity to receive rigorous training and experience in sustainable community design work. Enterprise Rose Fellows apply their skills to create sustainable, affordable housing and new opportunities for low-income people in underserved communities.
Since it’s inception in 2000, the Enterprise Rose Architecture Fellowship has sponsored 35 architects who have assisted in the creation or preservation of over 7,000 sustainable, affordable homes and 43 much-needed community facilities for low-income people in underserved communities.
“The mission of the Rose Fellowship is to inspire and nurture a new generation of architects as lifelong leaders dedicated to creating sustainable communities for people at all income levels.”
The Enterprise Rose Architecture Fellowship pays an annual stipend of $47,500 and will begin accepting applications for 2013 fellowships this spring.
If you are a graduating undergraduate or graduate student from an accredited architecture school in the U.S. then you should check out the SOM Prize and Travel Fellowship for Architecture, Design and Urban Design. Awarded annually, this fellowship provides talented architects with a $50,000 research and travel fellowship that can be used for conducting research, collaborating with industry experts and other designers, and to pursue independent study. As you might expect, this fellowship is highly competitive, but finishing as a runner up even has its perks. The SOM Foundation awards a $20,000 research and travel fellowship to the second place finisher.
A little about the SOM Foundation:
The mission of the SOM Foundation Travelling Fellowship Program is to assist young architects, designers and engineers in expanding their professional education through the observations of culture, history, building and design that can only be achieved through travel. Prior Fellows have travelled to Asia, North Africa, and South America, as well as Europe and the United States.