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A note from Eleanor Savage |
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| ACT UP (Gran Fury), SILENCE=DEATH, 1987. Photo courtesy New Museum, NY/William Oleander Memorial Fund. |
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| Jerome Foundation remains steadfast in our investment in artists, culture bearers and arts organizations and exhilarated by their creative contributions far and wide. As we bring you good news and opportunities, we also want to acknowledge that arts and culture organizations are facing unprecedented financial losses through the termination of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), National Science Foundation (NSF), and Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). These funding cuts are impacting all arts organizations—from rural to suburban to urban to large to small. Artists are experiencing the ripple effect of these funding cuts through contract cancellations not only from the arts sector, but also from education, health, and science sectors, and government agencies that provide public funding for a diverse range of creative activities. Arts organizations foster healthy communities, bringing people together for connection and well-being; promoting economic opportunity (contributing $1.17 trillion to the U.S. GDP in 2023); providing expansive education opportunities for all ages; supporting scientific research and civic engagement; and inspiring understanding and empathy through our collective stories. Arts organizations and artists are part of the connective tissue of our communities and our democracy. Support from government (local, state, and federal) and philanthropic organizations and community members is vital for keeping this cultural infrastructure thriving. While there is a spirit of resilience, the fiscal and spiritual harm of these federal cuts is significant and devastating. We encourage everyone to recognize the impact of this abrupt change in federal priorities and reach out with support and presence for the artists and arts organizations you value. Foundations are also under scrutiny by the federal government. The Foundation recently joined a powerful coalition of philanthropic institutions, in partnership with the Council on Foundations, to launch a critical public signatory campaign defending philanthropy’s freedom to give and standing in solidarity as a sector and in support of our grantees. |
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| | We will not be silent. We will continue to show up for artists, culture bearers, and arts organizations. Let us all continue to stand up and step up for our communities. With love and in solidarity—and in celebration of PRIDE! And Freedom Day! —we share with you Good News! Eleanor Savage President Jerome Foundation |
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| | | AXS Film Fund offers grants of up to $10,000 to support up to five feature-length documentary filmmakers and nonfiction new media creators. Projects in any stage of production are welcome to apply. Underrepresented creators who identify as living with disabilities are encouraged to apply. Application deadline July 31, 2025. |
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| | Now in its fifteenth year, the Cedar Commissions is a cohort-based program that supports six early-career/emerging Minnesota-based composers and musicians in creating and debuting 30 minutes of new original music. Application deadline July 18, 2026. |
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| | Three artists are selected annually to participate in the Jerome Early Career Printmakers Residency at Highpoint. The year-long residency begins in September and features an exhibition in June. Since 2003, this program has served more than 50 early career printmakers. Application deadline June 16, 2025. |
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| | This new playwriting fellowship will offer two early career playwrights an artistic home at La MaMa for the course of one year. The fellowship seeks to encourage playwrights from underproduced communities. Applications open June 15 and close on July 1, 2025 or when 150 applicants have submitted – whichever comes first. |
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| | Since 1981, this fellowship program, funded by a grant from the Jerome Foundation, has artistically and critically advanced the careers of more than 200 visual artists. The artists considered for these fellowships may work in a variety of visual art media, including traditional and new media. Application cycle opens mid-July 2025. |
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| | The Queens Museum (QM) is launching the seventh round of this program for artists in New York City. Two visual artists will receive $20,000 each, professional development, and mentorship from QM staff members working toward an artist’s project. Application deadline September 22, 2025. |
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| | This program offers artists a supportive environment to think, work, and develop their creative practices. The program aims to amplify artists’ voices and foster equitable experiences for Somali-American artists within the broader art community and is open to Minnesota-based artists. Application deadline June 27, 2025. |
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| | This new funding opportunity designed to support the Minneapolis and Minnesota-based dance ecosystem and broader dance community. Funding will be invested in choreographers, dance companies, event producers, and performing arts organizations. Selected applicants will receive grants of between $5,000 and $30,000. Application deadline July 15, 2025. |
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| | (for NYSCA-funded organizations)The NYSCA Reserve Fund Grants (RFG) provide grants to NYSCA-funded organizations to establish a reserve fund or build on an existing reserve fund. Grant amounts will range from $10,000 to $75,000 in accordance with the applying organization’s operating budget. Application deadline June 17, 2025. |
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| | (for artists and organizations)The NYSCA FY2026 application period for Support for Organizations, Support for Artists, Support for Targeted Opportunities, and Support for Regrants and Services is now open. Application deadline June 26, 2025. |
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| | Each year, NEW INC recruits creative and business leaders from the fields of art, technology, and design to mentor and support their members and their projects. Mentors receive an honorarium, one-year New Ideas Fellow Membership to the New Museum, first-dibs on NEW INC programs, and the opportunity to engage with the NEW INC community throughout the year. Application deadline July 8, 2025. |
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| | | | The Early Bird Guide to the Nonfiction Core Application (for filmmakers)The Non-Fiction Core Application Project is a collaborative effort by a group of documentary funders, with the goal of alleviating some of the burden of proposal writing through the standardization of application requirements. Early Bird has put together a resource with advice for each section of the application to help applicants write proposals that are specific, thoughtful, and reflective of their project. |
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| | | Pepatián’s Reflecting Archives: Artists in ConversationThis incredible library of conversations with over 20 artists, via podcasts, and videos with performance clips is based on Pepatián’s performance archives. Also, check out Write Your Future, the literary companion to the Jerome-supported Dancing Futures Residency, produced in collaboration with BAAD!. |
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| | | I Care If You Listen (powered by American Composers Forum)Founded in 2010 by Thomas Deneuville, this multimedia hub for living music creators was born from a desire to create a dedicated space for talking about contemporary classical music. |
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| | We are grateful to the many organizations and initiatives who compile opportunities for artists in Minnesota, New York City, and beyond! We recommend you visit these sites often (and bookmark them!) to learn about opportunities both near and far, across artistic fields. Additional Resources |
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| Photo credit: Getty Images |
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| In April 2026, Delina White (2019 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, Visual Arts) was featured by Vogue in its Best Dressed Stars of the Week, with Quannah Chasing Horse (left) wearing Delina's work. Raja Feather Kelly (2019 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, Dance) received a 2025 Doris Duke Artist Award. 2025 Guggenheim Fellows include Caroline Davis (2019 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, Music) and Charisse Weston (2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, Visual Arts). This is the 100th class of Guggenheim Fellows! Foundation for Contemporary Arts announced the first cohort of 30 experimental artists and collectives in its Creative Research Grants Program, who include Jordan Demetrius Lloyd (2021 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, Dance), Jeffrey Meris (2025 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, Visual Arts), and Ogemdi Ude (2025 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, Dance). |
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| Leslie Barlow (2021 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, Visual Arts) was named a 2025 McKnight Visual Artist Fellow. Sarah Rothberg (2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, Technology Centered Arts) is part of the artist collective "is this thing on?," whose THING+YOU exhibition is open through August 10 at the Museum of the Moving Image. Sarah also had a debut New York solo exhibition, FOREVER MEETINGS, at bitforms in March–April 2025. Since its publication in 2024, Pallavi Sharma Dixit's (2019 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, Literature) debut novel EDISON has won the First Pages Prize and the Asian American Writers Workshop Pages in Progress Prize. EDISON is a Bollywood-style love story and hilariously moving love letter to Bollywood and to the Indian American community of Edison, New Jersey. Maggie Thompson (2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, Visual Arts) received a First People's Fund Artist in Business Leadership Fellowship. Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich's The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire (2021 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, Film; 2021 New York City Film Production) screens at BAM June 6–12, 2025. The film also screened at the Walker Art Center in May as part of the "Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich: Evading Capture Cinema Residency Series." Sarah Friedland's Familiar Touch (2021 New York City Film Production) opens on June 20 at Film Forum in New York City before expanding nationwide. The film is a groundbreaking coming-of-old-age film and a true intergenerational production, made in collaboration with the residents and staff of Villa Gardens Retirement Community. Raúl O. Paz-Pastrana's (2015 New York City Film Production) Backside screens at Tribeca Film Festival on June 7, 8 & 14, 2025. The film offers an intimate glimpse into the lives of immigrant workers who begin their days at 2AM, seven days a week, year-round, caring for some of the world's most prized racehorses. Sandi DuBowkski's Sabbath Queen (1996 New York City Film Production) screened at the MSP Film Society in June. The feature documentary was filmed over 21 years and follows Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie's lifelong quest to creatively and radically reinvent religion and ritual. |
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| | Every Spring, a new group of incredible organizations get the good news from Ruth Arts that they've won an Artist Choice award. It's always a surprise and it's always because artists really love them. See the list of 2025 awardees including Jerome grantees Abrons Arts Center, BAAD! - The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Danspace Project, and Pangea World Theater. American Composers Forum (ACF) has appointed Loki Karuna as Executive Director. Vanessa Rose will assume the Chief Executive Officer role. This new leadership structure reflects ACF's movement towards a greater role in advocacy for living music creators. American Composers Orchestra (ACO) announced LaRob K. Rafael will be joining its leadership team as Director of Composer Advancement. LaRob will guide ACO's Jerome-supported EarShot composer advancement initiative. Angela's Pulse founder and director Paloma McGregor received a Herb Alpert Award, given annually to risk-taking mid-career artists. Asian American Writers' Workshop (AAWW) announced its Margins Fellows for 2025: Aamina Khan, Jess X Snow, Jun Chou, and Swati Sudarsan. Black Collective Foundation co-founder Chanda Smith Baker was named a 2025 Bush Fellow in recognition of her role as an advocate for liberated leadership. Firelight Media appointed Loira Limbal as its next President and CEO. Limbal has served as Senior Vice President of Programs until 2021 and originally joined the Firelight team in 2009. Limbal succeeds co-founder Marcia Smith. First Peoples Fund appointed Dr. Lara Evans, Ph.D. (Cherokee Nation) as Interim President & CEO. Lara joined First Peoples Fund in February 2023, and most recently served as Vice President of Programs. Minnesota Center for the Book Arts (MCBA) has announced a call for an executive director, open through August 1. Playwrights' Center announced the 2025–2027 cohort of Jerome and Many Voices Fellows. These artists will be the first to experience the full tenure of their fellowships from the Center's new home in Saint Paul. Michelle de Joya and Sharifa Yazmeen were selected as Jerome Fellows, and Vinecia Coleman, Bianca Nkwonta, and J. Isabel Salazar were selected as Many Voices Fellows. To celebrate World Theater Day 2025, Pregones/Puerto Rico Traveling Theatre's Artistic Director, Rosalba Rolón was invited by TCG to give the U.S. video message where she shares about her path as an artist and visionary. Smack Mellon announced the six artists in their 2025–26 Artist Studio cohort: Andrius Alvarez-Backus, María-Elena Pombo, Matthew Li, Maya Dixon, S Emsaki, and Zoë Pulley. These NYC-based emerging artists, representing a diverse array of practices, will move into their studios at Smack Mellon this September for 11 months. Theater Mu has chosen Fran de Leon to be its next artistic director. De Leon will become the fifth artistic director in the theater's 33-year history of producing great performances born of arts, equity, and justice from the heart of the Asian American experience. |
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| “Wabaduska Love: When Things Are Too Good To Be True,” a Native feminist horror story by Graci Horne featuring Shinana Secody. Photo Credit: Puppet Lab. |
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| Jerome grantees in the news… |
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| Junauda Petrus (2021 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, Literature): "Minneapolis Poet Laureate Junauda Petrus brings Black, tender joy to the city." Sahan Journal, April 16, 2025. (read more) Whitney White (2021 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, Theater): "Onstage and Off, Whitney White Is Everywhere This Spring." New York Times, April 15, 2025. (read more-gift link) Puppet Lab (Open Eye Theatre): "Puppet Lab offers diverse programming from emerging puppetry artists." Minn Post, May 6, 2025. (read more) |
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| | | | Jerome Foundation Board Co-Chair Lori Pourier was named a 2025 Bush Fellow. This Fellowship celebrates leaders and the work they are leading to make Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and the 23 Native nations that share this geography better for everyone. With the Bush Fellowship, Lori will explore socially responsible investing strategies that align with Native values and ensure sustained resources for generations to come. |
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| | Investing Our ValuesJerome Foundation embraces a new investment strategy that aligns our financial strategy with our core practices and values, and the journey that has brought us here. |
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| Learn more about Jerome-funded programs supporting early-career artists run by arts organizations in Minnesota and New York City. |
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