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Welcome to GOOD NEWS!, Jerome Foundation’s new quarterly newsletter! In these uncertain and volatile times, Jerome Foundation remains steadfast in our commitment to artists and creativity. Guided by our practice of storytelling and our value of humility, we’re excited to shine a light on the powerful, necessary work of artists, culture bearers, and arts leaders. Each quarter, GOOD NEWS! will bring you inspiring updates from our grantee ecosystems in Minnesota and New York City—featuring announcements, resources, artist highlights, and news from artists, culture bearers, and arts organizations shaping the future. We’ll also keep you informed about upcoming deadlines for Jerome-funded opportunities designed for early career artists across artistic fields. Stay connected, stay inspired—there’s so much good news to share! We welcome your “good news”— please share your information with us for possible inclusion in future newsletters. With love, respect, and in solidarity, Eleanor, Andrea, Nell, Melissa, & TA |
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| Jerome gathering of artists in New York City, March 2025. Photo by Argenis Apolinario. |
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| Dear Artists, Culture Bearers, and Arts Leaders, Jerome Foundation celebrates the bold, visionary creators who have reshaped landscapes, challenged perspectives, and breathed life into new possibilities. Junauda Petrus, a Jerome Hill Artist Fellow alumnus and the poet laureate of Minneapolis, recently shared something that struck me deeply. She said some call these dark times, but she sees them as illuminating times. This framing reminded me of how lucky I am to be working in service to artists, culture bearers, and arts leaders who know how to shine a light on injustice and who know how to do the truth telling that is ever more critical in this moment. When people, identities and cultures have been silenced, banned or erased, artists have played critical roles in creating resistance and mobilizing movements to help people survive and to foster change—not just physically, but spiritually, emotionally, and culturally. From coded songs and images to underground performance spaces to street art and murals to poetry and reclaimed narratives, art has been and continues to be a tool for collective memory, healing, and revolution. Artists don’t just respond to the world; you reshape it. You don’t just hold up a mirror; you forge new realities. Across history, artists have been the pulse of transformation—revealing truths that systems would rather keep hidden, sparking revolutions, and offering blueprints for the futures we want to be born. By making the invisible visible, you disrupt narratives of power, provide spaces for collective grief and resistance, and inspire communities toward action. Together, we stand as champions of creativity. We know that art is not just expression—it is power. It is prophecy. It is possibility. I say to you: keep creating, keep questioning, keep illuminating. The world needs your fire. Jerome Foundation looks forward to supporting the power of artists long into the future. With gratitude and in solidarity, Eleanor Savage
President
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| | | This program supports a cohort of 2 early career New York City-based performing artists for a project development residency over the course of 12 months, and production period the following year. Application deadline March 31, 2025. |
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| | Initiated in 1985, Franklin Furnace annually awards grants to between 8–15 early career performance artists or collectives selected by peer panel review to enable them to produce major performance art works in New York City. Application deadline April 1, 2025. |
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| | CDAF programs are designed to support artists, collectives, and organizations in creating impactful projects that enrich the community through the arts. There are currently two opportunities open: Application deadlines for both programs is April 15, 2025. |
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| | These project grants, open to individuals and organizations, can used for a variety of arts projects that engage Minnesota audiences and participants. Projects can include creating and/or presenting concerts, plays, tours, exhibitions, arts festivals, public art, or other kinds of arts programming. Application deadline May 2, 2025. |
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| | This commissioning program (open to national and international artists) is designed to support new performing arts works that illuminate the promise, practice, imperfection, and opportunity of democracy. Application deadline extended to April 16, 2025. |
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| | The 2026 Open Call seeks proposals for new artistic works in the Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Film, and Literature. The Creative Capital Award provides unrestricted project grants of up to $50,000 to individual artists to create new work. The new State of the Art Prize provides unrestricted artist grants of $10,000.
Application deadline April 3, 2025. |
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| | Franconia’s Open Call for emerging and mid-career artists to join its residency program has its first round of applications opening on April 1. |
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| | | Reminder: The application deadline is Thursday, April 3 (5 pm Eastern/4 pm Central Time) for Jerome Foundation’s New York City Film Production, Minnesota Film Production, and Minnesota Filmmaker Development programs. Learn more. |
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| | | | Artists Thrive: National Resource HubThrough its Resource Hub, Artists Thrive is making it easier for artists, arts administrators, educators, and others to find and access evergreen professional development content to help them thrive. |
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| | | Future Film CoalitionA new think tank and advocacy organization to promote the economic sustainability/viability/flourishing of independent film in a time of massive media consolidation and predatory practices. |
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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. |
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| Junauda Petrus at The Loft’s Minneapolis Poet Laureate celebration. Photo credit: Hlee Lee-Kron. |
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| | Junauda Petrus (2021 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, Literature) was named the new Poet Laureate of Minneapolis. Jes Fan (2019 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, Visual Arts) was awarded the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation 2024 Biennial Grant. Kashimana Ahua (2021 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, Music) and Shruthi Rajasekar (2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, Music) received ACF’s 2025 McKnight Composer Fellowships. Travis Gutiérrez Senger’s ASCO: Without Permission (2021 NYC Film Production) premiered at SXSW in its Documentary Spotlight program. Caitlyn Greene’s The River (2023 NYC Film Production) received the Sundance/Sandbox Fund grant and was also selected for the Doc Society Climate Lab, which supports impactful climate storytelling. Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich’s The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire (2021 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, Film; 2021 New York City Film Production) was named “Best Experimental Film” by the National Society of Film Critics. The 2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards recognized Sarah Friedland and her film Familiar Touch (2021 New York City Film Production) with its “Someone to Watch Award,” recognizing a talented filmmaker of singular vision who has not yet received appropriate recognition. Rachel Elizabeth Seed’s film A Photographic Memory (2017 New York City Film Production) received the “Truer Than Fiction Award,” recognizing an emerging director of nonfiction features who has not yet received significant attention. |
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| | Cave Canem released Magnitude and Bond: A Field Study on Black Literary Arts Organizations. This first-of-its-kind field study focuses on Black literary arts service organizations that provide essential programming, services, and networks of support to the literary community. First Peoples Fund named its inaugural cohort of Native Performing Arts Fellows and Production Grantees for 2025, whose 16 awardees include former Jerome grantees Rosy Simas and Emily Johnson/ Catalyst. The Laundromat Project announced the artists and community builders in its 2025 Create Change Residency and Fellowship programs. Artists-in-Residence include: Keshad Adeniyi, Briana Calderón, Zakiya Collier, Dahkil Hausif, and Leslie Mejia. Fellows include: Adriel Michelle Barnett, Nic Black, Ching-I Chang, Nzingha Hazelton, Anurima Kumar, Keya Kuruvilla, Choya Mayon, Maleek Rae, Margo Rosales, Kelsea Suarez, Jason Wang, and Najha Zigbi-Johnson. Pioneers Go East Collective had its Out-FRONT! 2025 festival, which was named as a “Critics Pick” by The New York Times, TimeOut, Dance Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, and many more. |
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| Rio Sakairi, Artistic Director of The Jazz Gallery. Photo by Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times. |
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| Jerome grantees in the news… |
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| The Jazz Gallery: “At 30, the Jazz Gallery Remains a Force. Rio Sakairi Is Its Heart.” The New York Times, February 17, 2025. (read more) Danspace Project: “‘Sanctuary Always Needed’: A Home for Dance Risk-Takers Turns 50.” The New York Times, February 17, 2025. (read more) Katayoun Amjadi, Roshan Ganu, and Amy Usdin (2025 Jerome Hill Artist Fellows, Visual Arts): “Three Minnesota visual artists win prestigious $60K Jerome Hill Foundation fellowships.” Star Tribune, January 30, 2025. (read more) |
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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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