The American Academy in Rome has announced 29 winners of its annual Rome Prize, for which honorees receive a stipend, work space, and room and board for five months to two years at the Academy’s 11-acre campus, in Rome, to pursue their individual research or area of study.

Considered one of the most prestigious awards given to artists and scholars, the Rome Prize recognizes specialists in architecture, landscape architecture, design, historic preservation and conservation, literature, music composition, visual arts, and other disciplines.