The Jerome Foundation

The Jerome Foundation supports artists and arts organizations.

The Jerome Foundation was founded by Jerome Hill (1905-1972), a noted filmmaker, composer and painter, and awards grants to emerging artists in Hill’s home state of Minnesota and New York City, where he spent much of his creative life. The Foundation promotes a dynamic culture through support for artists, collectives and/or ensembles across all disciplines in the early stages of their vocational artistic lives to create new work and for nonprofit arts organizations that offer programs, services and activities for such artists, collectives and/or ensembles.

The Jerome Foundation is affiliated with the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France.

See the Jerome Foundation’s 50 years of grant making.

Maria Hassabi, Show, The Kitchen 2011; image by Rosane Chamecki
Dessa Darlling, JT Bates, and Aby Wolf, Cedar Cultural Center 2011, image by Ben LaFond
Mallory Catlett, Oh What War, HERE Arts Center 2009; photo by Ryan Jensen
Rural Mural by Mike Fitzsimmons and John Grider; Forecast Public Art, Hutchinson, Minnesota, 2010; photo coutesy of the artists.
Barbara Claussen, Modern Monoliths, 2009, Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
Yoonhye Park, Bodies of Pyongyang; Anna Barie, Kermen Batyreva, Anne Chan, Trisha Chang, Gigi Chen, Altyn Chiang, Karen Chin, Yuan Geng, DaYoung Kim, Bo-Yee Lai, Jia Liu, Camille Hsiung, Sherry Hwang, Tessa Mu, Janet Oh, Saoko Okano, Yoonhye Park, Noriko Sato, Satori Valero, Linda J. Wang, Sandy Wong, Angela Xie, Mariann Yip; New York City--2nd ave and 10th street in front of St Marks ChurchPhoto by Kenneth Hughes
Kirsten Hassenfeld, Dans La Lune, 2007 Smack Mellon; paper with mixed media dimensions variable; photo by Etienne Frossard
Dread Scott, Money to Burn, 2010, New York City--Broad St & Wall St in front of the NY Stock Exchange Building; photo by Dexter R. Jones
Jerome Hill. Photograph by Julia Knowlton.
Kamau Amu Patton, Simone Leigh, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, 2011, Studio Museum in Harlem Artists-in-Residence; photography by Ray Llanos.

Jerome Foundation Announcements

September Announcements

New Grant Programs Announced

Information about Jerome Foundation’s new program structure is available through a series of webinars. The new framework is consistent with our earlier posts and our focus on emerging/early career artists will continue.

Organization Grants: read more and watch the webinars

Following our September 14, 4 pm Central Time deadline, we are no longer accepting grants for our Grants to Organizations initiative. The next deadline will be in 2019. Please visit our website or sign up for e-newsletter updates for more information in early 2019.

Download the guidelines for Support for Philanthropic Organizations, Convenings, and Research, which has a rolling deadline.

Individual Artist Grants: watch the webinar

2018 Travel and Study Program

The 2018 Travel and Study Grant Program will support emerging artists who create new work in dance, film/video/digital production, and literature. Additionally, with thanks to the HRK Foundation for its generous support, the program is also open to arts administrators in Minnesota who work at organizations who support such artists.

The application is now open, with a deadline of December 7, 2017.

Download the program guidelines and register for the informational webinar on Thursday, October 12, 2017 at 12 noon Central Time.

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Apply

Step 1/preliminary application for Organization Grants is now open. The deadline is September 14, 2017.

The application for the New York City and Minnesota Film,Video, and Digital Production Grant Program is now open. The deadline is August 24, 2017.

The Travel and Study Grant Program application will open September 1, 2017. The deadline is December 7, 2017.

Learn more about the programs via the links above or go to the login page to start your application.