The Garden Club of America Rome Prize Fellowship in Landscape Architecture Grant

The Garden Club of America Rome Prize Fellowship in Landscape Architecture Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Garden Club of America
Amount: US $16,000 - US $30,000
Last Updated: September 19, 2025

Summary

The Garden Club of America Rome Prize Fellowship in Landscape Architecture offers a unique opportunity for American landscape architects. This esteemed fellowship supports advanced study, travel, and collaboration in Rome, promoting innovative approaches to landscape architecture and ecological design. The fellowship includes a $30,000 stipend, meals, accommodation, and workspace at the American Academy in Rome. Eligible applicants must be U.S. citizens, with opportunities for joint submissions. The application deadline is November 1, with a late submission window available.

Overview

Note: The primary deadline for application is is 1 November. Applications will also be accepted between 2-15 November for an additional fee. Purpose The American Academy in Rome supports innovative artists, writers, and scholars living and working together in a dynamic international community. The Rome Prize Fellowship in Landscape Architecture, which includes geography, environmental design and planning, landscape and ecological urbanism, landscape history, sustainability, and ecological studies, provides American landscape architects with a special opportunity for advanced study, travel, and association with other fellows in Rome. Provisions Provides an annual one-year fellowship at the American Academy in Rome, which includes a stipend, meals, a bedroom with private bath, and a private workspace in the Academy’s complex on Janiculum Hill overlooking the city. Full-term fellowships generally run from early or mid-September to July of the following year. For over a century, the American Academy in Rome has awarded the Rome Prize to support innovative and cross-disciplinary work in the arts and humanities. Former Rome Prize recipients include many of our country's most outstanding artists, architects, musicians, and classicists. Winners of full-term fellowships receive a stipend of $30,000, and winners of half-term fellowships receive $16,000. Read FAQ

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Applicants for all Rome Prize Fellowships, except those applying for the National Endowment for the Humanities postdoctoral fellowships, must be United States citizens at the time of their application.US citizens, and foreign nationals who have lived in the United States for three years immediately preceding the application deadline, may apply for the NEH postdoctoral fellowships in ancient studies, medieval studies, Renaissance and early modern studies, and modern Italian studies.Graduate students in the humanities may apply for predoctoral fellowships only if they are all but dissertation (ABD).Collaborators may submit joint applications provided their work is genuinely collaborative, as demonstrated by the materials submitted. In the case of joint applications, each individual must meet all eligibility requirements. Joint applications must be submitted in one dossier with one of the collaborators serving as the primary applicant.Joint applicants selected as winners will share one prize (i.e., room and board, stipend, and work space).Winners of the Rome Prize may hold other fellowships concurrently, as long as the requirements do not conflict with the winner’s full participation in the Academy community. Applicants are required to disclose all fellowships and awards they expect to hold during their proposed residency in Rome, including sabbatical pay.

Ineligibility

Undergraduate students are not eligible for Rome Prize Fellowships. Previous Rome Prize Fellows are not eligible to reapply. Rome Prize winners may not hold a full-time job during the fellowship term. Winners may undertake part-time work commitments—including scholarly or artistic work that is not related to their Rome Prize project—provided that this work does not interfere with the winner’s full participation in the Academy community.