For over five decades, The Bronx Museum of the Arts (“The Bronx Museum”) has been a vanguard of cultural diversity and accessibility in the contemporary art world. The Museum offers 100% free admission for everyone to all its exhibitions and programs, providing a vital creative outlet to the public. Through its curatorial practices, including a permanent collection, the Museum seeks to champion and promote artists who have been systemically and historically marginalized. The history and culture of The Bronx are a never-ending source of inspiration for the Museum, and its programs are designed to facilitate meaningful engagement with the people of the borough while also attracting visitors from all over New York City and the world. The Bronx Museum is a leader in the cultural sphere with its unwavering commitment to access, dedication to platforming underrepresented artists, and dynamic community-engaged programming.

The Bronx Museum is currently co-led by Deputy Director, Shirley Solomon and Chief Advancement Officer, Yvonne Garcia. A publicly-funded transformative renovation of the Museum is underway and expected to open in 2026. The Museum remains partially open during construction with a major gallery, flexible program spaces, an outdoor terrace, and an entire floor dedicated to education programs and classrooms. The completed renovation project will create the world-class arts facility that the South Bronx deserves and the Museum needs to further its programming.

Jerome Foundation supports The Bronx Museum’s AIM Fellowship program. Led by Patrick Rowe, Director of Education and Public Engagement, and Nell Klugman, Associate Director of Education and Public Engagement, AIM is The Bronx Museum’s free career accelerator program that serves 14 early career New York City-based visual and interdisciplinary artists per cycle. Fellows are selected for the program through a competitive open-call application process. The Fellowship takes place over 9 months through 34 weekly, 2-hour seminars with a distinguished faculty of arts professionals. AIM is designed to promote equity, focusing on networking and practical career-building skills, and offering insider perspectives and promotional strategies that have often been inaccessible to members of historically marginalized groups. The capstone of the program is a free public convening focused on artist career development that is designed and co-facilitated by the outgoing cohort of Fellows. Additionally, following individual studio visits with each AIM Fellow, a signature culmination of the program is the AIM Biennial, a thematic group exhibition organized by The Bronx Museum’s curatorial staff. The AIM Biennial is often an artist’s first Museum exhibition.