Jerome and Camargo Foundations Appoint New President
Jerome Foundation and Camargo Foundation have announced that Ben Cameron has been appointed president of both foundations, and will be working primarily in the US offices in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He will take these positions on January 4, 2016. “Ever since my years in the Twin Cities in the 1990s, I have admired the extraordinary leadership of the Jerome Foundation, long one of the most important arts foundations in Minnesota and New York, and its incredible President, Cynthia Gehrig,” Cameron said. “Her commitment to artists, her embrace of the Camargo Foundation, and her strategic abilities have been an inspiration. Now, as artists face new challenges and opportunities in a changing world, this is a perfect moment to reflect and expand the impact Jerome and Camargo can have in the future. I am deeply honored to be asked to follow in Cindy’s footsteps as impossible a task as that might be and look forward to returning to Minnesota.”
Cameron is currently program director for the arts at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, in New York City, a role that he has held since 2006. In that capacity, he has supervised grant programs focusing on organizations and artists in the theatre, contemporary dance, jazz, and presenting fields, as well as the ground-breaking Doris Duke Performing Artist Initiative that awards major grants to individual artists, dance companies, theatres, and presenters. For more than eight years, he was Executive Director of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national service organization for the American nonprofit professional theater community.