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MENA Theater Makers Fund

This program is specifically designed for US-based theater organizations including artist ensembles that can show a three-year track record of programming. Grants are unrestricted general operating funds (not project-specific). Through an open application process, MENATMA will be awarding $30,000–$45,000 to organizations across the U.S. Awardees will also have access to additional funds to redistribute directly to artists in their communities.

Application Deadline: March 20, 2026

Call for Artist: Town of Ashland Shade Structure

The Town of Ashland, with Metropolitan Area Planning Council, seeks an artist or artist team to design and install a shade canopy at the Corner Spot pocket park. This project is intended to activate the park as a welcoming community space, with a focus on supporting residents who are most affected by rising temperatures and the impacts of climate change. Attend an Info session on March 12 at 6:00 PM.

Proposal Deadline: March 25, 2026

Call for Artists & Performers: Harvard Ed Portal

Are you a local artist, musician, or dancer? The Harvard Ed Portal has paid opportunities to showcase your talent:

  • Gallery Artists (Fall 2026–2027): Seeking gallery artists to exhibit work in the Crossings Gallery that engages the community. This opportunity can provide artists with their first professional solo show in a gallery, artist support, and professional development.
  • Performers (June–October): Hiring performers for outdoor shows in our Concerts in the Common series at Brighton Farmers Market!

All experience levels welcome. Priority for Allston-Brighton & Cambridge creatives.

Application Deadline: March 26, 2026

LEF/Camden International Film Festival Fellowship

The LEF/CIFF Fellowship is an opportunity for 5 New England-based filmmaking teams to attend the 2026 Camden International Film Festival and connect with other filmmakers and industry leaders through a series of mentor-led project development workshops, networking events, and curated 1:1 meetings.

Application Deadline: March 27, 2026

Ashfield's Lighted Boat Parade on Ashfield Lake

Ashfield's Lighted Boat Parade  is a celebration of art, culture, and our rural landscape meant to connect people at Ashfield Lake. After dusk, boats will complete a circuit on the water as an audience looks on. The parade will be free for spectators and all are welcome.

Applications are competitive. 12 selected projects will receive $1,000 each to create illuminated art installations for the parade.

Application Deadline: March 31, 2026

Creative Capital's 2027 Open Call

The 2027 Creative Capital Open Call seeks proposals from individual artists in all 50 states for new artistic works in the Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Film, and Literature.

The Creative Capital Award provides unrestricted project grants of up to $50,000 to individual artists to create new work. The new State of the Art Prize provides unrestricted artist grants of $10,000.

Submission Deadline: April 2, 2026

City Hall Plaza Engagement Grant

See your community arts event come to life on Boston City Hall Plaza. We're funding events and event series for fall 2026 that are free and open to the public, and that celebrate Boston’s diverse communities, ignite the arts, and reimagine this iconic space.

Application Deadline: April 3, 2026

SOZO Fellowship 2026

SOZO Fellowship is a groundbreaking, six-month virtual coaching program (June–December 2026) designed to equip busy, full-time, mid-career independent artists with the tools to build sustainable, thriving careers. Through a structured cohort experience, SOZO Fellowship supports creative practitioners in leading with their expansive vision and unlocking their fullest potential.

Application Deadline: April 12, 2026

Pawtucket Riverwalk Sculpture Park

The City of Pawtucket, RI invites artists to submit existing sculptures to be considered for purchase to be sited in the Riverwalk Sculpture Park along the Seekonk River. Sculptures will be temporally located in Slater Park while the Riverwalk is under construction.  This call is limited to artists based in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Pawtucket Riverwalk Sculpture Park is envisioned as a vibrant, eclectic public art destination that celebrates creativity, culture, and community along the riverfront and integrates art, nature, and recreation into the everyday public experience. Sculptures may vary in style, scale, and material, fostering an atmosphere that is both inspiring and approachable for residents and visitors. 

Submission Deadline: April 16, 2026

City of Boston's Call for Installation Proposals: Mezzanine Gallery at City Hall

Boston City Hall is accepting proposals for large-scale 2D and 3D art installations for their Mezzanine Gallery.

Application Deadline: April 27, 2026

PAC NYC's The Democracy Cycle

In January 2024, The Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC) and Civis Foundation partnered to launch The Democracy Cycle, a commissioning program designed to support new works that illuminate the promise, practice, imperfection, and opportunity of democracy.

Over a five-year period, The Democracy Cycle will commission and develop 25 new performing arts works across the fields of theater, dance, music, opera, and multi-disciplinary performance. The commissioned works, to be selected over the course of three annual Rounds of Open Calls (2024, 2025, and 2026) will explore themes relating to the nature, practice, and experience of democracy.

The Cycle will provide $60,000 in support to each awarded project, consisting of a $30,000 commission as well as an additional $30,000 towards each commissioned project’s development process (research, readings, workshops etc.). The commissions will be awarded across three annual Open Calls, beginning in January 2024. In each Open Call, The Democracy Cycle will commission at least eight projects.

Application Deadline: April 28, 2026

Vilcek Foundation Grants

The Vilcek Foundation invites applications from mission-driven nonprofit organizations that have a specific focus on supporting immigrants in the arts, sciences, education, or through the provision of social services. Eligible U.S. nonprofit organizations are encouraged to apply for a grant of up to $20,000.

Application Deadline: April 30, 2026

National Craft Open Studios Weekend

This first-of-its-kind, nationwide celebration will invite the public into the creative spaces of more than 1,500 craft artists across the country on July 18-19, 2026. Artists sign up by April 30, 2026.

Artist registration deadline: April 30, 2026

The Hopper Prize Spring 2026

Call to Artists: The Hopper Prize is accepting submissions for Spring 2026 artist grants. They will be providing 6 grants totaling $13,000 USD. 2 artists will each receive $4,500 and 4 artists will each receive $1,000. All visual art media is eligible. This open call provides you with a direct path to get your work in front of an international community of curators, artists, gallerists, and arts administrators. Additional exposure is available via a 30 artist shortlist, online journal, & Instagram currently reaching over 165k.

Application Deadline: May 12, 2026

National Performance Network's Creation & Development Fund

The NPN Creation Fund supports the creation, development, and mobility of new artistic work that advances racial and cultural justice and results in an exchange between artists and communities. The fund supports artists creating a new work in its earliest stages, centering relationship building between artists, presenters, and communities. Creation Fund artists receive a minimum of $15,000 of unrestricted funding that supports the process and labor that goes into creating a new artistic work.

Application Deadline: May 18, 2026

Collective Futures Fund

The Collective Futures Fund is an initiative directly supporting visual artists and artist-run activity in the Greater Boston area through grants between $3,000 and $8,000. Visual artists, curators, arts writers, cultural organizers, collectives, and collaborators at all career stages who reside in Norfolk, Middlesex, Essex, Suffolk, and Plymouth counties are encouraged to apply.

Application Deadline: May 27, 2026

National Endowment for the Arts' Grants for Artists 

The NEA fund arts projects in the following disciplines: Arts Education, Challenge America, Dance, Design & Our Town, Folk & Traditional Arts, Literary Arts, Local Arts Agencies, Museums, Music, Opera, Our Town, Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works, Theater & Musical Theater, and Visual & Media Arts.

Submission Deadline: July 9

WORK_SPACE Gallery's Call for Artists: Roots Run Deep

Roots Run Deep is an exhibition dedicated to celebrating and examining the multifaceted nature of Indigenous heritage. We are seeking works that explore the unbreakable links between past, present, and future. Whether through traditional techniques passed down through generations or contemporary interpretations of identity, this exhibit aims to provide a platform for Indigenous voices to share their stories, struggles, and triumphs. New England artists age 16+ with a connection to indigenous heritage are invited to submit up to 3 pieces of art. All mediums are accepted.

Submission Deadline: July 24, 2026

RISCA's Artist Open Studio Tour

Artist Open Studio Tour grants support marketing and administration for an artist-initiated open studio tour. The studio tour must consist of multiple artists within one studio building or several nearby buildings and be open to the public.

Application Deadline: Rolling

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