General Program Grants
HOW DO YOU DEFINE AN EMERGING ARTIST?
The definition is contextual. The Foundation seeks to support those artists
who have significant potential yet who are under-recognized and have not
received acknowledgment as established creators from fellow artists and other
arts professionals. Examples of recognition and acknowledgment include
exhibitions, reviews, commissions, performances, grant awards, residencies,
fellowships, publications and productions.
The Foundation understands that such factors as race, gender and geography
play a role in determining whether or not an artist is emerging. In some cases,
the definition will be tied to career progression, as it has been commonly
understood; in other cases, it will follow a more community-based, individually
determined progression in an artist's development. The term emerging refers to
artistic development, professional accomplishment and recognition, not to
stylistic evolution within an artist's work. Students are not eligible for
Jerome Foundation subsidy.
IF I DO RECEIVE A GRANT, HOW QUICKLY CAN I GET THE MONEY?
Each grant requires completion of a signed contract. The paperwork necessary
to release the funds must then be processed. This takes a minimum of three
weeks. In most cases, payment dates are flexible. If a suggested payment
schedule doesn't fit a grantees' plans, the Foundation will make the necessary
adjustment.
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