December Jobs & 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

• November 30, 2022 | Boston, MA: Arts and Business Council of Greater Boston's The Walter Feldman Fellowship

• December 1, 2022 | Manchester, NH: Currier Museum of Art Artist-in-Residence

• December 3-11, 2022 | Charlestown, MA: Artists Group of Charlestown's Open Studios and Winter Exhibitions

• December 11, 2022 | Boston, MA: The Eliot School's Artists in Residence

• December 15, 2022 | Salem, MA: City of Salem's Call for Art, Artist, and Creatives

• December 15, 2022 | Boston, MA: Mass Cultural Council’s Festivals and Projects Program

• December 18, 2022 | Cambridge, MA: Gallery 263's bittersweet Call for Art

• December 19, 2022 | Boston, MA: NEFA's Public Art Learning Fund will accept applications on a rolling basis through this deadline

• January 6, 2023 | Brattleboro, VT: Wolf Kahn Foundation Grants Letters of Inquiry due

• January 8, 2023 | Cambridge, MA: Gallery 263's Call for Exhibition Proposals

• January 15, 2023 | Albans, VT: Inclusive Arts Vermont seeks Teaching Artists

• January 20, 2023 | Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts' The Artist Project

• January 20, 2023 | Cambridge, MA: LEF's Moving Image Fund

• January 20, 2023 | Cambridge, MA: Deadline to send a letter of inquiry about Harvard Film Study Center-LEF Foundation Fellowship

• January 31, 2023 | Montpelier, VT: Vermont Arts Council's Artist Development Grants

• January 12-May 24, 2023 | North Adams, MA: Assets for Artists Workshops

• February 2, 2023 | Boston, MA: Mass Cultural Council’s Cultural Facilities Fund

• Until Filled | Boston, MA: Design Studio for Social Intervention seeks Production Design Lead
• Until Filled | Boston, MA: Network for Arts Administrators of Color seeks Database Entry Assistant
• Until Filled | Montpelier, VT: Vermont Arts Council seeks Executive Director
• Until Filled | Becket, MA: Jacob's Pillow seeks Associate Director of Human Resources and Chief Marketing Officer 
• Until Filled | Providence, RI:  FirstWorks Seeks Communications Manager

• Until Filled | Farmington, CT: Hill-Stead Museum seeks Manager of Private and Corporate Events

• Until Filled | Ogunquit, ME: Ogunquit Playhouse seeks Managing Director

• Until Filled | Stowe, VT: The Current Center for Contemporary Art seeks an Adult Education & Special Programs Manager and Art Instructors

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

• Until Filled | Cambridge, MA: José Mateo Ballet Theatre seeks Executive Artistic Director

• Until Filled | Portland, ME: Indigo Arts Alliance seeks Administrative Assistant

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

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

• Until Filled | Cambridge, MA: Part-time positions and internships with the Dance Complex

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

• Until Filled | Boston, MA: Boston Lyric Opera seeks Chief Operating Officer

• Until Filled | Stowe, VT: Open Positions at Spruce Peak Arts

• Until Filled | Washington Depot, CT: Pilobolus seeks Development Director

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

National & International Opportunities

• December 1, 2022 | Omaha, NB: Nebraska Arts Council seeks Executive Director
• December 1, 2022 | Atlanta, GA: Grant deadline for the national program, Jazz Road Tours, operated by SouthArts.

• December 4, 2022 | Washington, DC: Touchstone Gallery's call for entries - Sequence

• December 5, 2022 | Washington, DC: Dance/USA seeks Director of Leadership and Learning

• December 9, 2022 | Deadline to apply: Rauschenberg Dancer Emergency Grants at NYFA

• December 12, 2022 | Webinar: Creative Districts in Rural Communities, hosted by Arts Idaho, ArtsWA and Nebraska Arts Council.

• December 15, 2022 | Dear Human at the Edge of Time Call for Poems about climate change
• December 16, 2022 | Lewiston, ME: Bates Collage Department of Theater and Dance seeks Professor of Dance and Dance Theory 
• January 4-22, 2023 | New York, NY: Under the Radar Festival
• January 6, 2022 | Deadline to apply for the Performing Arts Discovery (PAD) international showcase opportunity

• January 13, 2023 | Philadelphia, PA: Pig Iron Theatre Company seeks Production and Facilities Manager

• January 10, 2023 | Yucca Valley, CA: The Joshua Tree Highlands Artists Residency
• January 13. 2022 | Deadline to apply: Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants at NYFA
• January 13-17, 2023 | New York, NY: Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP | NYC) Conference
• January 19, 2023 | Applications due for Creative Forces Community Engagement grants supporting community nonclinical arts programs for veterans, military, as well as their family, and caregivers.
• January 28, 2023 | Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology seeks Executive Director
• February 15, 2023 | New York, NY: Bloomberg Philanthropies' 2022 Public Art Challenge
• Until Filled | Philadelphia, PA: Pig Iron Theatre Company seeks Director of Development
• 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
• Art World Learning: Business and Financial Health for Artists, Designers, and Cultural Practitioners 
• These opportunities were submitted individually or compiled from email campaigns; many were found in Asian American Arts Alliance's monthly newsletter. Visit their site and sign up for their emails.