The 2022/23 MCAD–Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Early Career Artists application cycle is now open.
Donor Name: Minneapolis College of Art and Design
State: Minnesota
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Fellowship
Deadline: 09/16/2022
Size of the Grant: $12,000
Details:
The artists considered for these fellowships may work in a variety of visual art media, including traditional and new media. The program is aimed at visual artists who can present their work in a gallery context. Eligible applicants must be in the early stages of their careers and have not yet attained professional acknowledgment commensurate with the quality of their work. MCAD and the Jerome Foundation welcome applications from artists representing diverse cultural perspectives.
Fellowships may be used to purchase materials, cover the production costs of new artwork, and supplement living or travel costs. During the fellowship year, each artist receives three studio visits from professional critics, access to technical assistance, a culminating exhibition at the MCAD Gallery, a catalog with a critical essay on each artist’s work, and the opportunity to partake in a public panel discussion.
Funding Information
An independent jury of three arts professionals awards four grants of $12,000 each to early- career Minnesota artists.
Eligibility Criteria
- Artists that are in the early stages of their creative development with 2-10 years of generative experience not including any exhibition opportunities provided through a school or college program and:
- have a focused direction and goals, even while still developing their artistic “voice”
- have yet to be substantially celebrated within any artistic field, the media, funding circles or the public at large
- are vocational (as opposed to avocational, academic, amateur, or educational) artists
- Artists who at the time of application have generated, completed and publicly presented/exhibited/published work in the discipline in which support is requested;
- Artists must be able to provide evidence that they are an early career artist. Your resume will demonstrate limited, but promising, exhibition exposure and no more than a few grants or fellowships in direct support of your work.
- Artists who engage in exploring and challenging conventional artistic forms;
- Artists’ work must fall within current visual art practice. Artists considered for this Fellowship may work in a variety of visual art media, including both traditional and new media. The Fellowship is not intended for commercial artists, musicians, theatre artists, or others whose work is generally not presented in a visual art context.
- Artists who are legal residents of the state of Minnesota and have been residents for a least a year prior (since September 16, 2021) to the submission of an application. (Determined by voting and/or payment of taxes in the state. Applicant must also have a street mailing address within Minnesota to be eligible to apply.)
- Artists must reside in the state until the end of the Fellowship period.
- Artists living outside the Twin Cities metropolitan area who receive a MCAD–Jerome Foundation Fellowship must be willing to travel to the Twin Cities for Fellowship events, meetings with visiting critics and other group meetings. Mileage and lodging for trips will be reimbursed.
- Artists must be willing to meet with visiting critics during the Fellowship period and accommodate their schedules to the critics’ visits. This may include arranging for and transporting your artwork to a location in the Twin Cities for studio visits.
- Artists must be willing to participate in a Fellowship exhibition and related activities.
- Artists are eligible to receive this Fellowship once every three years; however, if you are a prior recipient that fact will be taken into consideration when your application is reviewed.
For more information, visit MCAD.
