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. 

• September 7 | Provincetown, MA: Fine Arts Work Center seeks Fellowship Director
• Roxbury, MA: Castle of our Skins seeks Marketing Manager
• Boston, MA: Holocaust Museum Boston seeks Exhibits Manager and a Education and Programs Manager
• Cambridge, MA: Club Passim seeks Director of Operations
• Seattle, WA: Northwest Choirs seeks Executive Director
• 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 Operations Manager, Development Director, and Exhibitions Registrar + Preparator
• 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
• 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
• 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

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

Vermont Arts Council's Artist Development Grants

Artist Development Grants support activities that enhance mastery of an artist’s craft or skills or that increase the viability of an artist’s business.

Application Deadline: Sept 7, 2026

Library of Congress Lewis-Houghton Initiative

Annual awards of up to $100,000 are available to support projects in which analysis of the Library of Congress' music or creative arts-related digitized primary sources supports learning about history, civics, and/or democracy at the middle and high school levels. The Library will consider awarding two additional years of funding subject to the availability of funds and the grantee's satisfactory progress on project goals.

Application Deadline: Sept 18, 2026

Real Art Ways' Provision Fund

With funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Provision Fund offers six $10K grants for Connecticut artists to support public-facing visual arts projects. Grants will be awarded through a juried open call process. 

Application Deadline: Sept 20, 2026

The Chapman Prize

Awarded to a charitable individual or organization who has contributed most significantly to the improvement of cultural life and/or significantly aided the growth and availability of the arts in the United States during the previous year. By way of example, contributions may include programs bringing arts to underserved communities and populations, programs creating opportunities for the arts and artists to thrive, and/or programs that use the arts to build bridges and partnerships. The Chapman Prize is awarded to one charitable individual or organization annually.  The amount is normally between $80,000 - $100,000.

Application Deadline: Sept 30, 2026

Solo Exhibition at Gallery VERY

Gallery VERY invites artists to apply for a five-week solo exhibition at our gallery in Boston’s SoWa arts district. One artist will be selected to work collaboratively with Gallery Director John Guthrie to develop an exhibition approximately six months following selection. All visual media and career stages are welcome. 

Application Deadline: Oct 9, 2026

Hanover Garage Percent for Art Commission

The City of Portsmouth is seeking an experienced and qualified firm or team of firms to respond to Hanover Garage Percent for Art Commission.

Proposal Deadline: Oct 9, 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

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
• May-October, 2026 | Townshend, VT:  Apply for one- or two-week Artist in Residence at Plough & Stars Project
• August-September | Gloucester, MA: Rocky Neck Art Colony presents Making an Impression printmaking exhibition
• September 2 | Remote: CERF+'s Grants 101 Webinar
• September 6-21, 2026 | Pezzolo, Italy: Trinacria Theatre Company's Script Transformation 
• September 16 | Remote: CERF+'s Safety is an Art Form Webinar
• September 30 | Johnson, VT: Deadline to apply for Vermont Studio Center artist residencies
• October 2-3, 2026 | National: Artists and arts organizations are invited to participate in Fall of Freedom, a movement across all artistic genres as a radical act of resistance and solidarity.
• October 3-11 | Cape Ann, MA: Cape Ann Plein Air 10th Anniversary Celebration
• October 8-11 | Marlboro, VT: 71st Flaherty Film Seminar
• Rolling | Pittsfield, NH: Graylag Nature Preserve's the Graylag Artist Residency

Participate in Field Research

Impacts of AI on Performing Artists

Do you work in theatre, dance, or live music? Researcher Annie Dorsen wants to hear from you. Share your experience with generative AI and help inform future policy, advocacy, and support for artists.

This study of the impacts of AI on performing artists is conducted by SMU DataArts and Annie Dorsen as part of Artists Make Technology, a collaborative initiative anchored by Mozilla Foundation and the Doris Duke Foundation, in partnership with the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, with additional support from the Ford Foundation.

Take the Survey by september 8 

Understanding Arts Service Organizations in a Changing Arts Ecosystem

The 2026 National Arts Service Organizations Survey is a first-of-its-kind effort to collect information on arts service organizations operating in the United States today. It is a part of a multi-phase research study Understanding Arts Service Organizations in a Changing Arts Ecosystem, which aims to understand the role, impact, and ongoing evolution of ASOs. 

Take the Survey by October 9 

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