Jobs & Opportunities

Check out these opportunities from our friends and collaborators and pass them along to your colleagues! Let us know of any 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.

• February 13 | New York, NY: Kinetic Light seeks Managing Director and Director of Artistic Producing
• February 15 | New Bedford, MA: Massachusetts Design Art & Technology seeks full-time Exhibitions & Education Manager
• February 15 | Brattleboro, VT: Brattleboro Music Center seeks Executive Director
• Feburary 15 | Edgecomb, ME: The Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts seeks seasonal Studio Assistant, Residency Liaison, Hospitality Coordinator, Assistant Cook, and Dining Coordinator
• March 1 | Olympia, WA: ArtsWA seeks Executive Director 
• March 2 | Lovell, ME: Hewnoaks seeks 2026 Summer Residency Manager
• March 4 | Worcester, MA: Worcester Cultural Coalition seeks Cultural Plan Consultant
• March 5 | Portland, ME: Indigo Arts Alliance Seeks Development Director
• March 10 | MA + NH: Freedom's Way Heritage Association seeks Executive Director
• March 15 | Pittsburgh, PA: Quantum Theatre seeks an Artistic Director
• March 26 | West Rutland, VT: The Carving Studio & Sculpture Center's Resident Internships
• March 27 | Columbia, SC: The Columbia Museum of Art seeks Executive Director
• Worcester, MA: Worcester Cultural Coalition seeks Create 508 Program Coordinator and Create 508 Assistant Program Coordinator
• Stamford, CT: The Stamford Museum & Nature Center seeks Executive Director
• North Andover, MA: Brooks School Stages and Studios Summer Program seeks Teaching Artists, Music Directors, Choreographers, and Visual Art Teachers 
• Andover, MA: Phillips Academy Andover seeks Instructor in Music: Jazz And Contemporary Music Director
• Portland, ME: Maine College of Art & Design seeks Assistant/Associate Director of Artists at Work
• Norwell, MA: The James Library and Center for the Arts seeks Interns
• Boston, MA: Massachusetts College of Art & Design seeks a Fibers tenure-track Faculty
• Northridge, CA: The Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts California State University, Northridge seeks Executive and Artistic Director
• Los Angeles, CA: The Music Center seeks Senior Vice President of TMC Arts
• Honolulu, HI: Honolulu Theatre for Youth seeks Managing Director
• New London, NH: Center for the Arts NH seeks Executive Director
• Rockport, MA: Rockport Music seeks Director of Development
• Providence, RI: FirstWorks seeks Programs Director
• New York, NY: Roundabout Theatre Company seeks Chief Marketing & Experience Officer
• Boston, MA: Open positions at the Rose Kennedy Greenway
• New York, NY: Open Positions at Lincoln Center
• Portland, ME: Indigo Arts Alliance seeks Development Director
• Portland, ME: Indigo Arts Alliance seeks Deputy Director

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

Made Here Film Festival

The Made Here Film Festival is a regional festival for filmmakers/key creative personnel (producers, directors, editors, DoPs) residing in New England and Québec, co-produced by VTIFF and Vermont Public. Please do not apply unless you live in this region. The festival provides a relaxed and friendly atmosphere to screen your films, meet other filmmakers, industry representatives and broadcasters in the region. All styles of films and lengths (above 2 minutes) are accepted. The regional location of filmmakers does not mean that the subject of the films needs to be regional.

Application Deadline:  February 13

The Watermill Center's 2026 International Summer Program

The International Summer Program is an exceptional residency that brings 20 artists together for four weeks at The Watermill Center. During the program, artists will develop installations and performances in a communal and experimental environment. The artists – from different fields, countries, and backgrounds – will share meals, exchange ideas, collaborate with one another, attend workshops, and participate in the daily life of the Center.

Application Deadline: February 18, 2026

Castle of Our Skin's Call for Artistic Responses: The Great Migration and Other Forced Migrations

Castle of our Skins is thrilled to announce a Call for Artistic Responses connected to their upcoming performance And, Perhaps, To Bloom on May 3, 2026. Drawing inspiration from Richard Wright’s Black Boy — and his meditation on leaving, carrying home within you, and seeking a place to “perhaps… bloom” — we invite artists, writers, makers, and creatives to respond to his words and to the broader histories of the Great Migration and other forced migrations in the Black diaspora. They seek up to five (5) artistic responses in any medium — including visual art, installation, multimedia, projection/video, sculpture, or creative writing — that engage audiences through participation, interaction, or reflection.

Call Closes: February 20, 2026

Mid Atlantic Arts' USArtists International grant

USArtists International® supports in-person performances by artists from any state or territory in the U.S. at engagements at international festivals, global presenting arts markets, and other eligible engagements outside of the United States. The program funds individuals and ensembles across all performing arts practices and disciplines. Matching grants of up to $11,000 toward eligible travel expenses.

Application Deadline: February 25, 2026

The Boston Foundation's Free for All Endowment Fund

The mission of the Free for All Endowment Fund is to ensure that everyone from the Boston region—children, adults, families—will have regular and permanent access to the rich world of classical orchestral music and related cultural events. Since 2016, the fund has awarded over $1.3 million in grants to nearly 20 organizations that strive to expand programming and engage a variety of audiences across Greater Boston. 

Application Deadline: March 2, 2026

MASSCreative's RFPS to Perform and Exhibit at Creative Sector Day

MASSCreative seeks artists, cultural organizations, and creative businesses across disciplines to join us as featured exhibitors and performers during the 2026 Creative Sector Day at the State House on Tuesday, March 3, 2026. 

Creative Sector Day at the State House is an opportunity to celebrate the contributions that artists, creatives, sector leaders, and cultural organizations make in Massachusetts. Throughout the day, we will stage performances, displays, and demonstrations by members of the creative sector in the Great Hall and the Grand Staircase areas of the State House. Performances and displays will be open to the public from 1 - 3 PM and all selected participants will receive a $300 stipend for their work.

Application Deadline: March 3, 2026

The Carving Studio & Sculpture Center's Artist in Residence Program

The Carving Studio & Sculpture Center (CSSC) Artist in Residence program brings sculptors from around the world to create new work at our historic campus. Residents become part of our vibrant artist community, sharing in the exchange of concepts, aesthetics and technical expertise.

Application Deadline: March 6, 2026

Call for First American Artists: 13th Annual Artesian Arts Festival

The 13th annual Artesian Arts Festival will be May 2, 2026, in Sulphur, Oklahoma, on the Artesian Plaza. The festival includes an market featuring stunning works of art by talented artists from federally recognized First American tribes, lively music, dance demonstrations and delicious food from local food trucks.

Application Deadline: March 6, 2026 

CreativeWest's Native Arts & Heritage Fund

The Native Arts + Heritage Fund (NAHF) is a community-rooted award program created to support Native American and Alaska Native artists, culture bearers, and cultural practitioners across the Creative West region. Register for the February 5 Info Session.

Application Deadline: March 8

Innovate Grants for Artists and Photographers

Innovate Grant awards (2) $1,800.00 grants each quarter, to one Visual Artist and one Photographer. In addition, (12) honorable mentions (6 in art and 6 in photo), will be featured on our website and join a growing community of vibrant and talented artists. Innovate Grant's commitment extends beyond the grant cycle by promoting the work of selected winners and honorable mentions into the future. 

Submission Deadline: March 19, 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

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 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

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

• October 2025-September 2026: Creative West's Capacity Building Workshop Series
• January 13-February 25: Commonwealth Mural's virtual training session, The Muralist’s Toolkit: Mural Project Planning from Vision to Execution
• Through February 25: Assets for Artists Virtual Workshops
• September 6-21 | Pezzolo, Italy: Trinacria Theatre Company's Script Transformation 
• Rolling | Pittsfield, NH: Graylag Nature Preserve's the Graylag Artist Residency

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.