Past
Grantees

The Laundromat Project, New York City, received a two-year grant of $70,000 for the Create Change Artist Residencies and Commissions program, serving five socially-engaged New York City-based early career artists per year and providing a unique platform for the creation of innovative, high-quality public art endeavors of any medium in neighborhoods across New York City in 2018–19 and 2019–20.

The Loft Literary Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, received a two-year grant of $150,000 for the new Mirrors and Windows Mentorship Program, a 6-month mentorship program for 12 underrepresented Minnesota emerging/early career writers of color to create and develop new books for children and young adults in 2018 and 2019; and continued support for the year-long Loft Mentor Series Fellowships in support of diverse Minnesota emerging/early career writers creating and developing new work in fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction in 2019.

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), New York City, received a one-year grant of $28,000 for Workspace, a 9-month residency for 15–30 emerging career artists to create, experiment with, and present new work in 2018–19.

The artist will travel to Shanghai, Hangzhou, Ningbo and Beijing, China to conduct oral interviews with extended family members and to study Chinese Socialist Realist monuments in support of her Cultural Revolution memoir project.

Ma-Yi Theater Company, New York City, received a two-year grant of $60,000 for support to develop four plays by four early career Asian Women Playwrights: Rehana Lew Mirza, Samantha Chanse, Deepa Purohit, and Jiehae Park in 2018–19 and 2019–20.

Mabou Mines, New York City, received a one-year grant of $30,000 for the Resident Artist Program, providing six early-career New York City-based artists with residencies that include mentoring, stipends, rehearsal and performance space, and technical assistance in order to develop new work in 2019.

Milkweed Editions, Minneapolis, Minnesota, received a one-year grant of $23,000 to support the publication of three early career/emerging writers from New York City or Minnesota in 2019 and 2020.

Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD), Minneapolis, Minnesota, received a two-year grant of $170,000 for the MCAD-Jerome Foundation Fellowships for Minnesota-based early career artists (four per year) to develop and exhibit new work in 2018–19 and 2019–20.

Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA), Minneapolis, Minnesota, received a two-year grant of $48,000 for the Book Arts Mentorship Program (Series VII) for three early career artists in 2018-2019 and the Book Arts Fellowship Program (Series XV) for three early career artists for a year-long residency to create and show new work in 2019–2020.

Mixed Blood Theatre Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota, received a one-year grant of $8,000 for its commissioning, development, and production of new work by Minnesota-based early career artists Lauren Yee (playwright) and Eric Mayson (composer).

Momentum: New Dance Works (fiscal sponsor St. Catherine University), St. Paul, Minnesota, received a two-year grant of $80,000 to support the commissioning, professional development, creative exchange, and presentation of four early career choreographers in 2018 and 2019.

Monkeybear’s Harmolodic Workshop (fiscal sponsor Springboard for the Arts), Minneapolis, Minnesota, received a two-year grant of $30,000 for the New Puppetworks program, serving eight Native/POC artists to create and present new short contemporary puppet theater pieces in 2018–19 and 2019–20.

The artist will travel to Haiti for 11 days to participate in the Vinn Pran Baget Summer Program in Cap-Haitien, Haiti in order to learn more about Vodou, Afro-Haitian dance and Haiti's revolutionary history. This will serve as research for a full-evening length work she plans to produce on Vodou's significance to Haitian culture.

The artist will travel to Paris, France for 11 days. As a writer engaged with the influence of designed space on identity formation, Morgan will study the archival papers of Charles-Ėdouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier), a leader of modernist architecture.

Movement Research, New York City, received a two-year grant of $80,000 to support the participation of 14 (7 per year) New York City-based emerging/early career artists in the MR Artist-in-Residence Program in 2018–19 and 2019–20.

National Black Theatre, New York City, received a two-year grant of $60,000 to support two New York City-based early career playwrights in the I Am Soul Playwright Residency program in 2018–19 and 2019–20.

Nautilus Music-Theater, St. Paul, Minnesota, received a one-year grant of $20,000 for the Nautilus Early Career Artists Initiative, providing Composer-Librettist Studio and Rough Cuts developmental opportunities for Minnesota and New York City-based early career/emerging operatic/music-theater artists making new work in 2018–19.

New Dramatists, New York City, received a two-year grant of $85,000 to support new play development by early career, New York City resident playwrights through the Playwrights’ Lab, and early-career New York City resident playwrights and composers in the Composer-Librettist Studio in 2018–19 and 2019–20.

New York Theatre Workshop, New York City, received a two-year grant of $20,000 to support the 2050 Artistic Fellows Program for six New York City-based early career playwrights and directors to develop new work while receiving mentorship and practical as well as financial resources in 2018 and 2019.

Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, received a two-year grant of $25,000 for the Jerome Ceramic Artist Project Grant for early career Minnesota artists to research, develop, and create new work in 2019 and 2020.