Fondation Jean-François et Marie-Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre
The Foundation, created in 2009, aims to promote access to education, while stimulating creativity, whether artistic or scientific, and its dissemination to as many people as possible.
domaines
Philanthropy
Contemporary art
Science & sustainable innovation
l’art en plus advises the Jean-François and Marie-Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre Foundation since 2022.
The Jean-François and Marie-Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre objective is to promote access to education and creativity, whether artistic or scientific, as well as its dissemination 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 acting in innovative fields.
Among them, the Foundation is supporting for three years the visual arts program of the Maison des Arts et de la Création launched by Sciences Po Paris, entitled “Dans l’oeil des artistes” (“In the eyes of artists”). Several times a year, leading figures from the artistic world are invited to share their work and their creative and representational methods 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 female artists. Following a first edition in collaboration with Frieze Masters, Spirit Now London is launching in 2023 the second edition of the Spirit Now London Acquisition Prize – Donation to a Museum in partnership with Frieze London. This year’s award aims to highlight the outstanding work of artists under 40 exhibiting at the fair. The winner will have one of her works added to the permanent collection of The Hepworth Wakefield Museum, in the United Kingdom.
Jean-François and Marie-Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre asked l’art en plus to conceive and deploy a communication strategy aimed at better identifying the Foundation, developing its notoriety, and promote its commitment to education, culture and science as widely as possible.
Through its collaboration with the Foundation, l’art en plus aims more broadly to promote creative intelligence through the positive message it carries, its ability to give meaning and its impact on society.