Jobs & Opportunities

Check out these opportunities from our friends and collaborators and pass them along to your colleagues! Let us know of any jobs, professional development opportunities, calls to artists, or cultural events that we should consider adding.

Jobs & Internships

If there is no deadline listed, the position is open until filled. 

• October 17, 2026 | Montpelier, VT: Vermont Arts Council seeks submissions for a Graphic Designer RFQ
• October 17, 2026 | Boston, MA: Brookline Arts Center seeks Executive Director
• October 21, 2026 | Fractured Atlas seeks Fundraising & Grants Member Advisors and Visa Services & Member Advisor
• October 30, 2026 | Austerlitz, NY: Millay Arts seeks Residency Director
• November 9, 2026 | New England: New England Arts Funders Network seeks Consultant
• Boston, MA: Holocaust Museum Boston seeks Director of Development, Exhibits Manager and a Facilities Manager
• Cambridge, MA: Club Passim seeks Director of Operations
• Boston, MA: Asian Community Development Corporation seeks Directors for Community Design & Planning and Development & Communications
• New Haven, CT: NXTHVN seeks Executive Director
• Becket, MA: Jacob's Pillow seeks Chief People Officer
• Watertown, MA: The Mosesian Arts Center seeks Technical Overhire, Interns, and Volunteers
• Stowe, VT: The Current seeks Office Administrator, Teaching Artists, Interns, & Volunteers
• Dennis, MA: The Cape Playhouse seeks Director of Development
• Norwell, MA: The James Library and Center for the Arts seeks Interns
• South Pomfret, VT: Artistree seeks Executive Director
• Brookline, MA: Puppet Showplace seeks part-time Business and Sales Manager and Front of House Manager
• Washington Depot, CT: Pilobolus seeks Production Manager
• Remote: Arts FMS seeks Senior Finance Consultant
• Burlington, VT: The Flynn Center seeks Director of Marketing
• Worcester, MA: The Hanover Theatre and Conservatory seeks Vice President of Programming & Production
• Jaffrey, NH: The Park Theatre seeks Executive Director
• Boston, MA: The Community Music Center of Boston seeks Chief Executive Officer
• Warwick, RI: The Gamm Theatre seeks Executive Director
• Boston, MA: Boston Children's Museum seeks Exhibit Fabricator
• Montpelier, VT: Vermont Arts Council seeks Finance Administrator
• Remote: Arts FMS seeks Finance Associate
• Remote: New Jersey State Council for the Arts seeks volunteer Grant Panelists
• Brookline, MA: Goddard House seeks Creative Aging Program Manager and Director of Community Partnerships & Creative Aging
• Boston, MA: Open positions at the Rose Kennedy Greenway
• Boston, MA: Open Faculty, Staff, and Student positions at MassArt
• New York, NY: Open positions at Lincoln Center
• Groton, MA: Open Administrative, Faculty, Intern, and Ensemble Director positions at Groton Hill Music Center
• Los Altos, CA: Cantabile Youth Singers of Silicon Valley seeks Executive Director
• Lincoln, MA: The Trustees of Reservations seeks Manager, Corporate Art Loan Program
• Sommerville, MA: Sommerville High School seeks Long Term Substitute Dance & Yoga Teacher
• Cambridge, MA: Office for the Arts at Harvard seeks Front of House Coordinator
• Boston, MA: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum seeks Assistant Production Manager
• Orono, ME: University of Maine seeks Manager of Theater Operations

More to Support Your Job Search

• 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

Calls and Grant Opportunities

Organized by deadline

MAPC's Call for Art: Creative Resources Guide

Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC), in partnership with the City of Malden, seeks an artist or artist team to design flexible templates for a City Hall resource guide and wayfinding map along with a core suite of graphic assets (e.g., icons, color palettes, illustrations) that can be adapted across digital and physical channels such as websites and posters. The design should be built to accommodate multilingual text and layouts and meet accessibility and municipal communication standards. The goal is to make municipal resources clear, engaging, and accessible to residents through compelling and culturally responsive visual design.  

The selected artist or team will collaborate with municipal staff and youth members to develop these designs. As part of the process, the artist or team will have the opportunity to host interactive activities at a municipal Office Hours in late October to gather local visual inspiration and co-create graphic assets with residents.   

Proposal Deadline: Oct 12, 2026

Vermont Arts Council Creative Aging Grants

Creative Aging grants support arts education and arts-based community building for older adults. Nonprofit organizations, municipalities, and educational institutions may apply.

Proposal Deadline: Oct 12, 2026

Vermont Arts Council Early Childhood Arts Partnership Grants

Early Childhood Arts Partnership Grants support arts education for preschool-aged children through partnerships with arts organizations or teaching artists. Applicants may be Vermont public schools, school districts, or nonprofit organizations

Proposal Deadline: Oct 14, 2026

Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation's Artist's Resource Trust Fund for Individuals

Applications for an unrestricted fellowship are invited from individual artists (painters, sculptors, printmakers, photographers, and artists using mixed media) who have demonstrated financial need. The fellowships may support any expense that enhances the artist's ability to create his/her work such as supplies, materials, equipment, rent, travel, residencies, etc. 

Application Deadline: Oct 15, 2026

Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation's Artist's Resource Trust Fund for Organizations

Artist’s Resource Trust was established in 1996 to provide support to the creative work of mid-career visual artists who have demonstrated substantial commitment, development and quality in their work. A.R.T. provides funds annually for New England, and Columbia and Northeast Dutchess Counties, NY nonprofit organizations for the commission, purchase or engagement of mid-career artists meeting the above geographic criteria.

Application Deadline: Oct 15, 2026

Massachusetts Cultural Council's Grants for Creative Individuals

Unrestricted grants of $5,000 to Massachusetts artists, culture bearers, and creative practitioners to equitably advance creative expression throughout our diverse communities.

Application Deadline: Oct 27, 2026

RISCA's Arts and Climate Grant 

Funded by the EC4 AB and implemented by RISCA, this grant supports Rhode Island-based arts and culture projects that translate complex climate information into accessible, resonant visuals, stories and experiences. The grant is open to artists from all disciplines, with a goal of improving public access and understanding of climate change and building public support and participation in climate action in Rhode Island.

Application Deadline: Nov 2, 2026

South Arts Journalism Grants

Grants of up to $10,000 for writers and media outlets in support of arts journalism and cultural coverage.

Application Deadline: Nov 20, 2026

Levitt Foundation's 2027 Festival Grants

Grants of up to $5,000 for U.S.-based 501(c)(3) nonprofits presenting free outdoor festivals in 2027. To be eligible for funding, festivals must take place outdoors in a public space, be free to attend, and feature programming with music and performances by professional musicians who are compensated.

Application Deadline: Nov 20, 2026

Bristol Art Museum's Call for Collage

The Bristol Art Museum announces a national call for collage for Torn Boundaries, a juried exhibit inviting artists to examine the boundaries that define, separate, connect and sometimes divide us. The exhibition will be on view from Sunday, Jan. 31, through Thursday, April 1, with an artist reception on Sunday, Feb. 7, from 2 to 4 p.m. Francine Weiss, Ph.D, will serve as juror for the exhibit.

Application Deadline: November 29, 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

More Ways to Find Opportunities

• 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.
• Artist Communities Alliance lists open calls from around the globe and offers workshops.

Events, Workshops, and Residencies

• May-October, 2026 | Townshend, VT:  Apply for one- or two-week Artist in Residence at Plough & Stars Project
• October 8-11 | Marlboro, VT: 71st Flaherty Film Seminar
• October 15 and 22 | Assets for Artists, supported by the Vermont Arts Council, is offering Project Management
• October 27-28 | Assets for Artists, supported by the Vermont Arts Council, is offering Radiant Thriving: Bold Writing for Boundless Artists
• November 1 | North Adams, MA: MASS MoCA is accepting applications for The Studios at MASS MoCA Residency Program
• November 3, 10, and 17 | Join the Vermont Arts Council and Teaching Artists Connect for From Artist to Teaching Artist
• November 10 | Asian Cultural Council is accepting applications for Individual Fellowships to support travel for research or cultural exchange
• November 13 | Vermont Creative Network and the Vermont Small Business Law Center are offering Learn from the Lawyers: A Legal Webinar for Artists
• November 13-15 | New York, NY: Oral History Summer School's Mini-Intensive Workshop
• November 16 | Brattleboro, VT: Vermont Creative Network is offering Creatives at the Table: Getting Involved in Local and State Government 
• December 4 | Vermont Creative Network is offering 2027 Legislative Preview: Vermont’s Creative Sector Advocacy Priorities
• Rolling | Pittsfield, NH: Graylag Nature Preserve's the Graylag Artist Residency

Participate in Field Research

Hawaiʻi Theater People Project

Please join Seema Sueko-Low and the many community members who helped shape and test this survey in this volunteer-run, consensus organizing effort to identify, count, and build community across the multifaceted spectrum of "Hawaiʻi Theater People." This includes theater people not just on the islands, but also the Hawaiʻi Theater People in the diaspora who live and work outside Hawaiʻi; and not only the current makers, but students, supporters, ʻohana, and former theater makers as well.

Learn more about the Hawai'i Theater People Project
 

Additional Resources

• The Corporate Art Loan Program at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum provides companies in the Greater Boston area with museum quality, original artwork curated specifically for your office, lobby or public area space, on an annual or multi-year loan rotation. They have opportunities for artists interested in becoming lending artists and businesses looking to loan artwork.
• Creative Study: Business and Financial Health for Artists, Designers, and Cultural Practitioners
• Entertainment Community Fund provides human services nationally for people who work in film, theater, television, music, opera, radio and dance. 
• Arts Action Consortium highlights workshops, events & residencies while also providing consultation services for artists.
• Artist Community Alliance lists residencies, resources, and updates on the field.
• Draft Studios is a paid service which helps artists and creative entrepreneurs setup an online presence.