December 2021 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 events, calls to artists, or cultural events that we should consider posting in the future. 

The format for the listings is as follows: "deadline/date of event | location of host or organizaton: linked name or description."

Opportunities in New England

• December 15, 2021 | Portland, ME: Creative Portland's Creative Bus Shelter Open Call

• January 8, 2022 | Somerville, MA: Somerville Museum's Penny Chronicles and the Stories They Tell Curated by David Guss, on view through January 8, 2022

• January 9, 2022 | Cambridge, MA: Gallery 263's Call for Exhibition Proposals

• January 17, 2022 | East Haddam, CT: Deadline to apply for I-Park Visual Arts Residencies

• January 21, 2022 | Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Art's Community Arts Initiative: The Artist Project - Call to Artists (info sessions on December 8 and January 8)

• January 21, 2022 | West Rutland, VT: The Carving Studio and Culture Center's Call for Stone Carvers - Redfield Proctor Monument

• January 24, 2021 | Lincoln, MA: deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum seeks Portfolio Director

• February 14, 2022 | Montpelier, VT: Vermont Arts Council's Artist Development Grant

• Until Filled | Boston, MA: MassCreative seeks Operations Associate

• Until Filled | Chilmark, MA: The Yard seeks Program Director, Sound Supervisor, and Production Manager

• Until Filled | Vineyard Haven, MA: Martha's Vineyard Museum seeks Development Director

• Until Filled | Becket, MA:  Jacob's Pillow seeks Chief Marketing Officer

• Until Filled | Greensboro, VT: Circus Smirkus seeks Executive Artistic Director 

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

• Until Filled | Boston, MA: projectSTEP seeks Executive Director

• Until Filled | Concord, NH: Concord Community Music School seeks Executive Director

• Until Filled | Jamaica Plain, MA: The Eliot School seeks Artist in Residence Coordinator, Youth Woodworking Teacher, Youth Programs Creative Arts Lead Teacher, and Teaching Assistant for Creative Arts

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

• Until Filled | Boston, MA: Celebrity Series of Boston (CSB) seeks Artistic Director

• Until Filled | Stowe, VT: Spruce Peak Arts seeks Director of Development, Box Office Manager and Associate, and more

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

• Keene, NH: Arts Alive! Fiscal Sponsorships

National & International Opportunities

• December 1, 2021 | Kansas City, MO: Mid-America Arts Alliance's Creative Forces Community Engagement Grant
• December 1, 2021 | Baltimore, MD: USArtists International application deadline to support international performing arts engagements, from Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
• December 1, 2021 | Philadelphia, PA: Da Vinci Art Alliance 2022 Residency
• December 1, 2021 | New York, NY: National Arts Club Artist Fellowship
• December 1, 2021 | Atlanta, GA: South Arts' Emerging Leaders of Color
• December 1, 2021 | Parent Artist Advocacy League for Arts + Media (PAAL)'s International Summit 2021: Centering Humanity
• December 2, 2021 | Minneapolis, MN: Arts Midwest’s Shakespeare in American Communities
• December 6, 2021 | New York, NY: 2022 Socrates Annual Open Call: Sink or Swim Climate Futures
• December 6, 2021 | New York, NY: New York Foundation for the Arts' The Incubator for Arts and Culture Leaders of Culture in the Tri-State Area 2022
• December 7, 2021 | Saint Paul, MN: Art-Train Individual Artist Training (Free!)
• December 8, 2021 | Washington, DC: Dance/USA Fellowships to Artists
• December 9, 2021 | New York, NY: Theater Communications Group (TCG)'s Climate Action in a Global Landscape: A TCG Virtual Summit
• Decemeber 9, 2021 | Artist Communities Alliance's Strategic Planning Artist Conversation
• December 10, 2021 | New York, NY: Dance/NYC Rehearsal Space Subsidy
• December 14, 2021 | Saint Paul, MN: Art-Train Agency/Organization Training
• December 14, 2021 | New York, NY: A.R.T./New York's Fall 2021 Grants
• December 14, 2021 | New York, NY: Innovate Grants for Artists and Photographers
• December 15, 2021 | New York, NY: Japan Society's "Architecture as Environment: a Conversation with Kengo Kuma and Toshiko Mori"
• December 15, 2021 | Kansas City, MO: National Endowment for the Arts and Mid America Arts Alliance's Creative Forces Community Engagement Grant
• December 17, 2021 | Los Angeles, CA: LA Department of Cultural Affairs' RFP: Vision Theatre Management, Operations, Programming, and Engagement
• December 19, 2021 | Gyeonggi-do, Korea: Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (CICA) Museum's Call to Artists: The 8th Exhibition on Conceptual Art
• December, 20, 2021 | Washington, D.C.: Applications due to apply for the role of Arts Program Coordinator for the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities
• December,  21, 2021 | New York, NY: The David Prize for Extraordinary New Yorkers
• December 22, 2021 | Queens, NY: Flushing Town Hall's Arts Grants for Queens
• December 29, 2021 | Gyeonggi-do, Korea: Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (CICA) Museum's Call for Papers/Exhibitions: CICA New Media Art Conference 2022 
• December 31, 2021 | Los Angeles, CA: VideoSoundArchive's Open Call: Season 3
• January-March, 2022 (various) | Online: Race Forward's Racial Justice Trainings
• January 7, 2022 | Portland, OR: Western Arts Alliance's Performing Arts Discovery 2021 Showcase
• January 9, 2022 | Montreal, Quebec, CA (& online): Early deadline for official Call for Applications for CINARS Biennale 2022 (11/7/22-11/12/22)
• January 26, 2022 | New York, NY: New York Foundation for the Arts' NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship
• January 31, 2022 | East Luray, VA: 2022 Shenandoah National Park Artist-in-Residence Call
• February 4, 2022 | Washington, D.C.: The National League of Cities (NLC) Institute for Youth, Education, and Families (YEF Institute), in partnership with the One Nation/One Project (ONOP) initiative's Improving Community Health and Resilience Through the Arts (January 11: Info Session)
• February 15-March 16, 2022 | Alameda and San Mateo, CA: Yerba Buena Center for Artist Power Convenings for artists of color
• Until Filled | Boston, MA: Center Stage seeks Company Managers for upcoming tours
• 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
• 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.
• 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
• 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.