Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship

Jerome Hill Artist Fellowships support early career Minnesota- and New York City-based generative artists who take creative risks in exploring, expanding, imagining, or re-imagining creative practices and experiences; reclaiming or reviving traditional forms in original ways; and/or questioning, challenging, or disrupting cultural norms. Fellows receive $60,000 over three consecutive years ($20,000 each year) to support their time and expenses for the creation of new work, artistic development and/or professional artistic career development. The Foundation expects to award a total of 45 fellowships across 7 artistic fields.

Jerome Foundation seeks to support artists who are creating, developing, and presenting imaginative work that is deeply considered, presented with technical skill, is compelling, and offers a distinctive vision and authentic voice.

This three-year Fellowship supports artists who embrace their roles as part of a larger community of artists and citizens, and consciously work with a sense of service and responsibility.

Support is directed to early career artists, which Jerome Foundation defines as within their 2nd–10th year as a generative artist.

Requirements

Prior to beginning the application, artists are required to answer an eligibility questionnaire in Submittable. The purpose of the questionnaire is to avoid ineligible artists investing valuable time and energy in completing an application. Jerome staff is available by appointment to answer questions about eligibility. Artists may only submit one application, either the individual application or the collaborative application, but not both.

Applications must be submitted by the applicant artist(s) and may not be submitted by an organization or other entity (such as a nonprofit, a producer, an agent, a multi-owner LLC or a management company, among others) on the applicant’s behalf. Fellowships are awards to artists, not to organizations.

Funds are issued directly to the applicant(s) as named in the application or to their single-member LLC (if applicable). Payments cannot be made to fiscal sponsors, management companies or producers, multi-owned LLCs, S-Corps, consultants or 501©3 organizations. All funds are distributed annually in 2025, 2026, and 2027.

Application Instructions