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We center our grantmaking around intersectional racial equity, committing to eliminating disparities and improving access and outcomes to ensure the longterm viability of artists, culture bearers and arts organizations in Minnesota and New York City, focusing on those whose cultural narratives and practices have been historically and presently are excluded. Learn more about our approach.
We consciously embrace diversity in the broadest sense. We support a diverse range of artists and organizations, including but not limited to those of diverse cultures, races, sexual identities, genders, generations, aesthetics, points of view, physical abilities, and missions. We support a diverse range of artistic disciplines and forms, created in a variety of contexts and for different audiences.
We recognize the dynamic relationship between creative risk-taking and innovation and support artists and organizations that expand, question, experiment with or re-imagine creative practices and experiences in their respective fields. This may include, but is not limited to artists who are:
- exploring and expanding outside the conventional creative practices and experiences in the field in which they work and/or reclaiming or reviving traditional forms in original ways
- creating, developing and presenting imaginative work that is deeply considered, technically expressive and compelling and offering a distinctive vision and authentic voice
- offering experiences that are effective and engaging, connecting with intended audiences or participants
- providing artistic experiences that communicate unique perspective/s, and invite viewers to question, discover, and explore new ideas in new ways
We work for artists (rather than the reverse) and believe that artists and arts organizations are the best authorities to define their needs and challenges—an essential humility reflective of Jerome Hill, our founder. The artists, arts organizations, and arts initiatives we support embrace their roles as part of a larger community of artists and citizens, and consciously work with a sense of purpose and responsibility.
Eligible artists typically have a track record of generating and publicly presenting full work over which they have ultimate creative control in the discipline in which they are applying, but are not yet at a point in their careers where they receive consistent development and production opportunities and significant recognition, awards, and acclaim.
Applications are not accepted from artists who are also enrolled in degree-granting programs at the time or application or who will be students during the grant period.
Jeong-Ae Neal, In the Heart of the Beast Puppet Theatre.
Eligible artists typically are choreographers or dance makers in dance; film or video directors of documentary, narrative, animation, or experimental film or video; poets, fiction and creative nonfiction authors in literature; composers and sound artists in music; artists who use technology as a creative medium in technology-centered work; creators of performance, devised work or spoken word and/or playwrights in theatre and performance; and artists in visual arts including but not limited to painters, sculptors, photographers, ceramic artists, textile artists, multi-media visual installation, public and/or social practice artists.
Jerome supported artists working within single disciplines and in multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary ways.
Aniccha Arts, Census. Photo by Jaffa Aharonov.
This strategy is realized through four discrete grant programs:
The Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship program
Grants for Research, Field-building and/or Ecosystem Development