Past
Grantees

Northern Lights.mn, Minneapolis, Minnesota, received a one-year grant of $65,000 for Art(ists) On the Verge. Five Minnesota-based early career artists will participate in a year-long mentorship program to create new work at the intersection of art, technology, and digital culture, culminating in an exhibition at The Soap Factory in 2019–20.

Pangea World Theater, Minneapolis, Minnesota, received a two-year grant of $50,000 for The Alternate Visions program for two women of color early career playwrights per year to develop new work in 2018–19 and 2019–20.

PARTICIPANT INC, New York City, received a two-year grant of $44,000 to support the creation of new work by early career New York City artists for solo and group exhibitions, including workshops, performances, and public programs in 2018–19 and 2019–20.

Penumbra Theatre, St. Paul, Minnesota, received a two-year grant of $70,000 in support of the inaugural Ashe Lab, serving three early-career artists of color through a two-year interdisciplinary residency to develop and produce new work in 2018–19 and 2019–20.

Pepatián-BAAD!, Bronx, New York, received a two-year grant of $60,000 as partners in support of the Dance Your Future: Artist & Mentor Collaborative Residency. The program provides six Bronx-based early career artists (three per year) with 7-month-long residencies to research, develop, create and perform new work supported by mentors of their choosing, as well as engage in professional development activities, in 2018–19 and 2019–20.

Performance Space New York (formerly PS 122), New York City, received a one-year grant of $50,000 to support commissions, residencies, and production for New York City-based early career artists to create new work in 2018–19 and 2019–20.

The artist will travel to Port of Spain, Trinidad and St. George, Tobago for 18 days to research queerness, LGBTQ experiences, African spirituality and magic to inform her young adult novel exploring these intersections.

Pillsbury House Theatre, Minneapolis, Minnesota, received a two-year grant of $50,000 for the 2019 Naked Stages program, a seven-month mentored fellowship for three Minnesota-based early career performance artists to create new work; and the development and production of new work for the mainstage theatre by early career Minnesota or New York City-based playwrights in 2019, including new play readings, developmental workshops, commissioning and one full production.

Playwrights Horizons, New York City, received a two-year grant of $45,000 to support an estimated 15 New York City-based playwrights, composers, and lyricists each year participating in the New Works Lab, which supports writers and helps them to develop new plays and musicals in 2018–19 and 2019–20.

Playwrights’ Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, received a two-year grant of $120,000 to support two early career playwrights per year in the Jerome Fellowships Program in 2018–19 and 2019–20; and for the Many Voices Fellowship program for two early career/emerging writers of color in 2019–20.

Poetry Project, New York City, received a two-year grant of $50,000 for Emerge-Surface-Be, providing three early career artists per year a 9-month, one-on-one mentorship program to develop a new manuscript in 2018–19 and 2019–20.

Poets House, New York City, received a one-year grant of $35,000 for the Emerging Poets Fellowship, providing ten early career poets a mentored artistic and professional development experience in 2019.

Printed Matter, New York City, received a one-year grant of $24,000 for its Emerging Artists Publication Series, providing two New York City-based early career artists with resources and mentorship opportunities to produce their own artists’ books.

The Public Theater, New York City, received a two-year grant of $60,000 to support the participation of 6–8 New York City-based early career/emerging artists per year in the Devised Theater Working Group in 2018–19 and 2019–20.

The Queens Museum, Queens, New York, received a two-year grant of $140,000 for The Queens Museum-Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists, providing two early career artists annually an unrestricted stipend and professional development opportunities to development and exhibit new work in 2018–19 and 2019–20.

The artist will  travel to Chennai, Chidambaram, Kanchipuram, Tanjavur, Rameshwaram Island, Tiruvannamalai and Tirumala, India for 25 days. Ramaswamy’s travel will deepen her exploration of the traditions, philosophies, and foundations that make Bharatanatyam such a rich and fully-realized art form. She is interested in how this dynamic art form incorporates mythology, spirituality, and human emotion into a multi-layered, multi-dimensional dance form to expand her growth as a meaningful practitioner and heighten the field of Indian dance in the diaspora.

The artist will travel to Alameda and San Francisco, CA for 59 days. Reed will conduct research at the San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park Research Center and study navigation at the Maritime Academy with the hope of gaining an understanding of her personal history in a wider cultural context to elucidate her in-progress memoir.

Rhizome, New York City, received a two-year grant of $50,000 for the Rhizome Commissions Program, supporting 8–10 New York City-based artists annually in the creation of original digital works in 2018–19 and 2019–20.

The artist will travel to Berlin, Germany and Seville, Spain for 17 days to study contemporary flamenco technique, improvisation, and composition with Juan Carlos Lérida, choreography and technique with Leonor Leal, and bata de cola technique La Choni. These encounters will help enhance his choreographic abilities as he continues experimenting with queerness and gender performance within his flamenco aesthetic.

Roulette Intermedium, Brooklyn, New York, received a two-year grant of $140,000 for the Jerome Commissioning Program, providing commissions to four early-career New York City-based composers to create and premiere new work at Roulette; and the Jerome Residency Program, providing a stipend and immersive residencies to five New York City-based early career composers to create and/or workshop new work during the 2018–2019 and 2019–20 seasons.