Jerome Foundation Travel and Study grants are made to emerging professional artists. You do not need a fiscal sponsor to apply to this program.
Applicants must:
- Live in Minnesota or the five boroughs of New York City at the time of application and have lived in that location at least one year prior to the application deadline.
- Be an individual emerging creative artist. This program is not open to organizations. Emerging artists show significant potential; have some evidence of professional achievement but not a substantial record of accomplishment; and are recognized as emerging artists by other artists, curators, producers, critics, and arts administrators. If you need more information on eligibility, please contact Foundation staff. Minnesota nonprofit arts administrators are eligible due to additional funding support for that geographic region.
- Not use this grant for touring, performances, concerts, screenings, exhibitions, production of new work, and teaching
- Apply to only one discipline area and submit no more than one proposal. Multidisciplinary artists should submit to the discipline area most closely aligned with their work. All panels will be prepared to review proposals that cross disciplines. If a proposal is declined, the applicant may submit the same request one additional time in a subsequent year.
- Have completed and filed a final report on their trip if he/she is a previous grant recipient.
- Not be a students in K-12 educational programs. In general, individuals enrolled in undergraduate and graduate degree programs are not eligible, with one exception. If an artist enrolls in an undergraduate or graduate degree program or takes classes while maintaining a current and active professional practice of creating and presenting work to the public, she/he is eligible.
- Be detailed and accurate in the budget information. If a trip is funded, the grant recipient will not be able to reduce the duration of the trip, change the trip destinations, and change the amounts and types of expense items.
Grants of up to $1,500 will be awarded for short-term travel of three to six days. Grants of up to $5,000 will be awarded for trips of one week or longer. Eligible applicants working collaboratively may apply on one application form if the monies requested do not exceed $5,000. Applicants may use grants for extended travel and study if supplementary resources are committed.Purchase of equipment is not an eligible expense, unless the item's cost is less than $100 and necessary for the trip. Salary replacement and an honorarium for the applicant are not eligible expenses. "Other" expenses may include such items as daycare, language classes, and pro-rated housing payments and utilities.
Travel may be national or international. The program does not prioritize one over the other.
Purchase of equipment is not an eligible expense, unless the item’s cost is less than $100 and necessary for the trip. Salary replacement and an honorarium for the applicant are not eligible expenses. Other expenses may include such items as daycare, language classes, and pro-rated housing payments and utilities.
Budget information should be detailed and accurate. If a trip is funded, the grant recipient will not be permitted to reduce the duration of the trip, change the trip destinations, and make significant changes in the amounts and types of expense items.
The Travel and Study Grant Program rotates disciplines in alternating years.
Proposals must be postmarked on or before the due date to be eligible. Please be certain that your application is mailed from a location that prints a postmark date on the envelope. Applications in envelopes without a postmark date received after the deadline will not be accepted.
Applicants will receive emails acknowledging receipt of their proposals. If there are questions about a proposal, a Foundation staff person will contact the applicant. The Foundation will send notification letters once the Jerome Board of Directors reviews and confirms the panel's recommendations. No information on the panels' recommendations will be provided prior to the letter of notification.
Once an independent emerging artist funded through the General Program has completed his/her three to six grant sequence of support and is no longer eligible to apply directly to the Foundation, that artist is no longer eligible for the Travel and Study Grant Program.
