Fondation Jean-François et Marie-Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre

l’art en plus advised the Fondation Jean-François et Marie-Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre from 2022 to 2024.

The Foundation aims to facilitate access to education and creativity, whether artistic or scientific, and its transmission to as many people as possible. It encourages initiatives born of man’s ability to understand, create and invent. The Foundation supports around fifteen projects, all of which are active in innovative fields. 

For three years, the Foundation supported the visual arts component of the Maison des Arts et de la Création launched by Sciences Po Paris, with a program entitled “In the Eye of the Artists”. Several times a year, leading figures from the artistic world were invited to share their work and their modes of representation and creation with students and other members of the school’s public. 

Marie-Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre also founded Spirit Now London, a multicultural community of art patrons and collectors dedicated to promoting the work of female artists. After a first edition in collaboration with Frieze Masters, in 2023 Spirit Now London launched the 2nd edition of the Spirit Now London Acquisition Prize – Donation to a Museum, in partnership with Frieze London, to highlight the exceptional work of artists under 40 exhibiting at the fair.

Jean-François and Marie-Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre called on l’art en plus to design and deploy a communication strategy designed to raise awareness of the Foundation and the projects it supports, and to promote its wider commitments to education, culture and science.