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

l’art en plus supported the Jean-François and Marie-Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre Foundation from 2022 to 2024.

The aim of the Foundation is to promote access to education and creativity, whether artistic or scientific, and its dissemination to as many people as possible. It encourages initiatives born of the human capacity to understand, create and invent. The Foundation supports around fifteen projects, all working 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 programme 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 methods of representation and creation with students and other members of the school’s public.

Marie-Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre is also the founder of Spirit Now London, a multicultural community of art patrons and collectors dedicated to promoting women 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 asked l’art en plus to design and implement a communications strategy designed to raise the profile of the Foundation and the projects it supports, and to promote its commitment to education, culture and science more widely.