September 2023 Jobs and Opportunities

Here are opportunities for this month; check them out and pass them along to your colleagues. Email us if you know of any professional development opportunities, calls to artists, or cultural events that we should consider. 

The format for these listings is: "deadline/date of event | location of host or organizaton: linked name or description."

Opportunities in New England

• September 15, 2023 | Providence, RI: RISCA's Folk and Traditional Apprenticeships and Folk and Traditional Fellowships

• September 15, 2023 | Boston, MA: Artadia Awards for Visual Artists ($15,000)

• September 16, 2023 | Brookline, MA: Brookline Arts Center's 2023 Public Art Program Call

• September 17, 2023 | Watertown, MA: Edible Watertown's Call for Art Pollinator Pathway Signs

• September 19, 2023 | Providence, RI: Application deadline for RISCA's Education Director

• September 20 through December 14, 2023 | North Adams, MA: Assets for Artists' virtual workshops

• September 20, 2023 | Pawtucket, RI: RISCA's Arts and Health - Mix and Mingle at Shiri Studio

• September 22, 2023 | Boston, MA: MassCreative's Advocacy and Organizing Fellowship

• September 23 through November 4, 2023 | North Adams, MA: Assets for Artists' in person workshops

• October 1, 2023 | Cambridge, MA: Gallery 263's call for exhibition proposals for late Fall 2023

• October 1, 2023 | Brookline, MA: Call for artists - Brookline Arts Makes Community Public Art Initiative

• October 2, 2023 | Boston, MA: MassArt's call for nominations - Common Good Awards (General MassArt Common Good Awards, Frances Euphemia Thompson Award for Excellence in Teaching, and Alumni Award)

• October 2, 2023 | Providence, RI: RISCA's Project Grant in Education, Project Grants for Organizations, Community Engaged Project Grants, and Make Art Grant

• October 4, 2023 | Boston, MA: Lawyers for Civil Rights' free Arts & Culture Series on the intersection of law and entrepreneurship in the creative economy begins

• October 9, 2023 | Providence, RI: RISCA's Call for Artists to exhibit at Block Island Airport Gallery and GREEN SPACE at R.I. T.F. Green International Airport Gallery

• October 11, 2023 | Providence, RI: RISCA's virtual Arts and Health Conversation: A Community Primer on Arts and Health

• October 12, 2023 | Providence, RI: RISCA's Celebrating the Life and Work of Jeannine Chartier at Rhode Island School of Design

• October 15 | New York, NY: Entertainment Community Fund's Scholarship Opportunities for Dancers 

• October 25, 2023 | Providence, RI: RISCA's virtual RI Arts Data Dashboard for Community Based Organizations

• Until Filled | Essex Junction, VT: Inclusive Arts Vermont seeks Director of Development (remote)

• Until Filled | Jamaica Plain, MA: The Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts seeks Executive Director

• Until Filled | New Haven, CT: Long Wharf Theatre seeks Director of Marketing and Communicaitons

• Until Filled | Waterford, CT: Eugene O'Neill Theater Center seeks Artistic Director, National Playwrights Conference

• Until Filled | Allston-Brighton, MA: Harvard Ed Portal seeks Arts Program Coordinator

• Until Filled | Farmington, CT: Hill-Stead Museum seeks Director of Education

• Until Filled | Salem, MA: Peabody Essex Museum seeks Director of Learning and Civic Engagement

• Until Filled | Action, MA: Discovery Museums seeks Director of Development

• Until Filled | Boston, MA: Asian Community Development Corporation (ACDC) seeks a Director of Community Design & Planning

• Until Filled | Boston, MA: The Theater Offensive seeks Executive Director

• Until Filled | Shelburne, VT: Shelburne Museum seeks Director of Development

• Until Filled | Arlington, MA: New England Museum Association Seeks Executive Director

• Until Filled | East Haddam, CT: Goodspeed Musicals seeks Director of Finance

• Until Filled | Barnstable, MA: Dream Tale Puppets seeks Temporary Contracted Research and Communication Assistant

• Until Filled | Providence, RI:  Open positions at FirstWorks

• Until Filled | Stowe, VT: The Current Center for Contemporary Art seeks Art Instructors

• Until Filled | West Rutland, VT: Carving Studio & Sculpture Center seeks Advancement and Communications Manager

• Until Filled | Chilmark, MA: The Yard seeks Executive Associate

• Until Filled | Jamaica Plain, MA: Job openings at The Eliot School

• Until Filled | Providence, RI: Job openings at Ballet RI

• Boston, MA: Open positions at the Rose Kennedy Greenway

National & International Opportunities

• September 6, 2023 | Great Lakes cities: Registration deadline for the 2024 Joyce Awards for new commissions by artists of color in the Great Lakes cities.
• September 8, 2023 | New York, NY: New York Foundation for the Arts' Rauschenberg Dancer Emergency Grants
• September 20, 2023 | Washington, DC: Dance/USA's Archiving and Preservation Fellowship Program
• September 22, 2023 | New York, NY: New York Foundation for the Arts' Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants
• September 29, 2023 | Deadline to apply for Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation's USArtists International grant for travel funding to perform internationally at eligible festival or performing arts market engagements.
• October 5, 2023 | Enrollment deadline for the APAP Arts Compensation Project
• Until Filled | New York, NY: The Career Center seeks Managing Director
• Until Filled | Washington, DC: Open positions with the International Association of Blacks in Dance
• Rolling | Portland, OR: Western Arts Alliance's Native Artist Opportunity Fund
• Rolling | Brooklyn, NY: Russell J. Efros Sprout Fund supports artists across the nation with direct funds to projects that will be completed within the next 12 months
• Rolling | Los Angeles, CA: Native American Media Alliance's Native Americans in Entertainment Covid-19 Relief Fund
• Rolling | Artnoir's Jar of Love Micro Grants
• Rolling | New York, NY: Jazz Foundation of America's COVID-19 Musican's Emergency Fund
• Rolling | New York, NY: Brooklyn Arts Council's Creative Aging: Su-Casa
• Rolling | New York, NY: NYC Small Business Services' Small Business Resilience Grant
• Rolling | New York, NY: Citizens Committee for New York City's All In Neighborhood Grants
• Ongoing: South Arts' Jazz Road Presenters Survey
• New York, NY: Lincoln Center open positions
• New York, NY: The Japan Society Open Positions

More Resources

• NEFA's events calendar, open grant applications, and list of social justice resources offer even more opportunities.
• Visit the U.S. Regional Arts Organization's website for grants and resources from our partner organizations.
• Looking for scholarships? Check out Accredited Schools Online's Funding Your Art Degree.
• Visit www.nefa.org/covid-19 for resources related to the pandemic or relief opportunities.
• For more job opportunities in Massachusetts, please check out Hire Culture, a free service of Mass Cultural Council.
• Arts Consulting Group's list of employment opportunities
• Creative Study: Business and Financial Health for Artists, Designers, and Cultural Practitioners 
• These opportunities were submitted individually or compiled from email campaigns; including the Asian American Arts Alliance's monthly newsletter.