Jerome Early Career Printmakers Residency Grant

The Jerome Early Career Printmakers Residency at Highpoint Center for Printmaking offers emerging Minnesota printmakers a year-long opportunity to develop their artistic skills. Selected artists receive access to a state-of-the-art printshop, technical support, a $3,500 stipend, and the chance to exhibit their work. This program aims to support those with significant potential in their craft while emphasizing innovation and community engagement. Applications are encouraged from underrepresented artists in the field.

Three artists are selected annually to participate in the Jerome Early Career Printmakers Residency at Highpoint. Thanks to the generous support of the Jerome Foundation, this program has existed since 2003 and has served more than 50 early career printmakers. The year-long residency begins in September and features an exhibition in June.
Jerome Residents at Highpoint Center for Printmaking receive:

• Twelve months of access to a state-of-the-art printshopTechnical support from the residency coordinator
• Storage space for tools and materials
• Use of inks and standard shop supplies
• $500 credit toward Highpoint classes and/or individual instruction
• Group discussions and critiques
• Group exhibition and public reception at the end of the residency
• Professional digital documentation of exhibition
• $3,500 stipend

Eligibility

The Jerome Residency program is open to emerging Minnesota printmakers who already possess training in one or more traditional printmaking techniques, and can provide original examples of such work. An “early career” artist is defined here as an artist who shows significant potential, yet has not received a corresponding amount of professional accomplishment and recognition regardless of age or recognition in other fields.Highpoint, the independent panelists, and the Jerome Foundation reserve the right to review and determine applicant status as early career.The Jerome Foundation’s ultimate goal is to support the artistic and career development of early career generative artists that exercise ultimate artistic control in creating new works and who demonstrate:Imagination and rigor in their practice and production of new workTechnical proficiency and a high level of craftCompelling and distinctive vision and authentic voiceConnection to intended audiences/participantsA self-awareness of their place in the creative practices and artistic communities in their field(s)Innovation and creative risk-takingExploration of and challenges to conventional artistic formsCritical inquiry of creative practice within their field and their arts communityTo be eligible, artists must illustrate proficiency in at least one traditional printmaking technique (intaglio, lithography, screenprinting, monoprinting, or relief). Residents will be required to observe Highpoint’s studio policies, guidelines, and etiquette as well as the conditions outlined in the Jerome Resident Contract. Artists are also expected to give a brief gallery talk during their exhibition.Minnesota residency must be maintained during the entire program.Applicants must have resided in MN for at least one year prior to the residency start date (September 1).Highpoint Center for Printmaking provides equal opportunity to all individuals regardless of race, national origin, color, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, or disability.

Ineligibility

Applications are not accepted from artists who are also enrolled in degree-granting programs at the time or application or who will be students during the grant period.Artists may not be a student during the residency period.