The Jerome Foundation helps artists in Minnesota and New York.
ST. PAUL, MINN.: The Jerome Foundation has introduced the grant recipients of the third spherical of the 2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowships program, with 54 fellowships going to early-career artists based mostly in Minnesota and New York City. Among that cohort are 9 artists within the fields of theatre, efficiency, and spoken phrase.
“Approving fellowship grants is a highlight of the year for the board of the Jerome Foundation. This year’s cohort again represents a thrilling social and aesthetic range of artists,” Jerome Foundation board chair Kate Barr stated in a press release. “Through its central support of artists at early stages in their careers, this program continues the legacy and practice of Jerome Hill himself in an exciting way.”
Each fellow is awarded $50,000 over two years to create new work, advance inventive objectives, and promote skilled improvement. Fellows are additionally provided one-on-one teaching and peer gathering alternatives by means of the MAP Fund’s Scaffolding for Practicing Artists program. An further 18 artists have been awarded smaller one-year grants.
The Jerome Foundation has recognized fellows within the fields of dance; literature; music; visible arts; theatre, efficiency, and spoken phrase; technology-centered arts; mixed inventive fields; and movie, video, and digital manufacturing. Theatre, efficiency, and spoken phrase fellows embrace Jeesun Choi, Donte Collins, Sxr Om Dxtchxss-Davis, Nazareth Hassan, Tish Jones, Lea Kalisch, Sam Kebede, and the duo of Tidtaya Sinutoke and Isabella Dawis. Additionally, nicHi Douglas, Yuliya Tsukerman, and Shayok Misha Chowdhury have been awarded one-time $10,000 grants.
Choi is a transnational Korean playwright, librettist, and bodily theatre artist. She is at present a librettist fellow on the American Opera Project, a member of EST/Youngblood, a member of Usual Suspects at New York Theatre Workshop, and an affiliated artist at New Georges. She will use her fellowship to craft tales concerning the pleasure and agony of the human situation within the context of (im)migration and diaspora.
Collins is an Afro-surrealist blues poet, playwright, and motion artist who was named the inaugural Youth Poet Laureate of St. Paul. They are an alum of TruArtSpeaks and have obtained awards from the Dramatists Guild Foundation and the Academy of American Poets, amongst others. They will proceed creating the choreopoem Mercy as a part of their fellowship.
Dxtchxss-Davis is a playwright from Minneapolis. They are a 2016-17 Many Voices Fellow on the Playwrights’ Center and infuse the world of their performs with the rhythms and cultures of North Minneapolis and Afro-Cuban non secular traditions. They will use their fellowship to create tales that replicate Black life in America.
Hassan is a author, director, and musician who works in efficiency, sound, and image-making. Their efficiency rating Untitled (1-5) was printed by 3 Hole Press, and they’re the resident dramaturg on the Royal Court Theatre. They will use their fellowship to work on their performs Bowl EP and VANTABLACK and to proceed engaged on Untitled (1-5).
Jones is a author, educator, organizer, and cultural producer from St. Paul. She is the founder and government director of TruArtSpeaks and delivered the TEDxMinneapolis discuss “Spoken Word as a Radical Practice of Freedom.” She will use her fellowship to analysis, write, produce, and publish her first poetry manuscript.
Kalisch is a Swiss Jewish singer, actor, and artistic producer who makes multicultural, multilingual artwork. She has labored in hip-hop and comedy by means of the US and Switzerland and was the 2020 recipient of the Omanut-Zwillenberg Prize for Swiss Jewish artists. Kalisch will use her fellowship to work on her movie/play mission Tango—A Prayer for Two.
Kebede is a first-generation Ethiopian/Eritrean American author, actor, and comic. His award-winning play ETHIOPIANAMERICA premiered at Victory Gardens Theatre and was produced by Definition Theatre. He will use his fellowship to develop his comedy selection sport present Lack History.
Thailand-born, New York-based composer Sinutoke and Filipina American librettist Dawis are the co-recipients of the Fred Ebb Award for musical theatre songwriting and the Weston-Ghostlight New Musical Award. Their work has been supported by the American Theatre Wing and Musical Theatre Factory, amongst others. They will use their fellowship to work on their musical Half the Sky, their chamber musical Sunwatcher, and their youngsters’s opera Little Dugong and Her Seagrass Song.
The Jerome Foundation was based in 1964 by artist and philanthropist Jerome Hill. The basis honors Hill’s legacy by means of multi-year grants to assist the creation, improvement, and presentation of latest works by early-career artists.
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