October 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

• October 15, 2021 | Boston, MA: Mass Cultural Council's Local Cultural Council Program

• October 15, 2021 | August, ME: Maine Arts Commission's Creative Aging Grant

• October 29, 2021 | Lebanon, NH: Lebanon Opera House seeks Operations Manager and Communications & Engagement Coordinator

• November 15, 2021 | Middletown, CT: Connecticut Hummanities and Connecticut Office of the Arts' Connecticut Cultural Fund Operating Support

• November 15, 2021 | Lewiston, ME: Bates Dance Festival seeks Production Manager

• December 4-5, 2021 | Manchester, VT: Southern Vermont Arts Center's Holiday Market

• December 8, 2021 | Augusta, ME: Maine Arts Commission's Craft Apprenticeship Grant

• 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

• Until Filled | Boston, MA: MassCreative seeks Communications and Membership Manager, Operations Associate, and Create the Vote Campaign Organizer (Contract Position)

• Until Filled | Hartford, CT: Greater Hartford Arts Council seeks Chief Executive Officer

• Until Filled | Exeter, NH: Phillips Exeter Academy seeks Director and Curator - Lamont Gallery

• Until Filled | Chilmark, MA: The Yard seeks Program Director and a part-time Grant Writer & Researcher

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

• Until Filled | Providence, RI: Brown's Department of Theatre Arts & Performance Studies seeks Academic Events & Facilities Manager

• Until Filled | North Adams, MA: Mass MoCA seeks Director of Visitor Experiences

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

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

• Until Filled | Boston, MA: Boston Society for Architecture seeks Director of Development

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

• Until Filled | Fairfield, CT: The Quick Center for the Arts at Fairfield University seeks Assistant Technical Director

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

• Keene, NH: Arts Alive! Fiscal Sponsorships

National & International Opportunities

• October 11-22, 2021 | Philadelphia, PA: International Association of Performing Arts for Youth's CultureCrew Festival
• October 11-November 7, 2021 | NAPA and San Francisco, CA: Yerba Buena Center for Artist Power Convenings for artists of color eligibility dates
• October 14, 2021 | Atlanta, GA: CDC Foundation's Engaging the Arts to Build Vaccine Confidence RFP
• October 15, 2021 | Ann Arbor, MI: National Opera Association's Argento Fellowships
• October 15, 2021 | CA: Center for Cultural Innovation's Quick Grant
• October 15, 2021 | Ghent, NY: Art Omi Residencies
• October 18, 2021 | New York, NY: Wherewithal Grants
• October 18, 2021 | Raleigh, NC: Arts Access North Carolina Seeks Executive Director
• October 18-December 12, 2021 | New York, NY: Movement Theater Studio's Online Workshops
• October 19, 2021 | New York, NY: New York Foundation for the Arts' The Recharge Surrealist Prize
• October 19, 2021 | Saint Paul, MN: Art-Train Agency/Organization Training
• October 20, 2021 | San Francisco, CA: Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) Documentary Fund
• October 20, 2021 | New York, NY: New York Foundation for the Arts' Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program for Visual and Multidisciplinary Arts 2021
• October 22, 2021 | Intercultural Leadership Institute
• October 24, 2021 | Philadelphia, PA: Leeway Foundation seeks Operations Manager
• October 29, 2021 | New York, NY: Theatre for a New Audience seeks Education Associate
• October 31, 2021 | Rochester, NY: Call for applications -- Artists to propose artwork for LGBTQIA+ welcoming building (via Rochester Contemporary Arts Center)
• November 1, 2021 | New York, NY: New York Foundation for the Arts' NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theatre
• November 2, 2021 | Saint Paul, MN: Art-Train Individual Artist Training (Free!)
• November 5, 2021 | New York, NY: internatonal documentary assocation's 2021 Open Call for Documentary Magazine Editorial Fellows
• November 8, 2021 | New York, NY: 2022 Baxter St Residency at the Camera Club of New York
• November 9, 2021 | Saint Paul, MN: Art-Train Agency/Organization Training
• November 11, 2021 | New York, NY: Women of Color in the Arts (WOCA) Leadership through Mentorship Program
• November 15, 2021 | Washington, D.C.: Institute of Museum and Library Services Grants for Museums
• November 15, 2021 | CA: Center for Cultural Innovation's CALI Catalyst Grants
• November 15, 2021 | CA: Center for Cultural Innovation's Quick Grant
• November 15, 2021 | New York, NY: Bronx Council on the Arts' Arts Fund and New Work
• November 15, 2021 | Philadelphia, PA: Asian Arts Initiative seeks Director of Development
• November 20, 2021 | New York, NY: Smack Mellon Studio Program
• November 22, 2021 | Bronx, NY: Bronx Council on the Arts' Bronx Dance Fund 
• November 30, 2021 | Saint Paul, MN: Art-Train Agency/Organization Training
• December 1, 2021 | Philadelphia, PA: Da Vinci Art Alliance 2022 Residency
• December 7, 2021 | Saint Paul, MN: Art-Train Individual Artist Training (Free!)
• December 8, 2021 | Washington, DC: Dance/USA Fellowships to Artists
• December 14, 2021 | Saint Paul, MN: Art-Train Agency/Organization Training
• December 14, 2021 | New York, NY: Innovate Grants for Artists and Photographers
• 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: RFP: Vision Theatre Management, Operations, Programming, and Engagement
• January 26, 2022 | New York, NY: New York Foundation for the Arts' NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship
• February 15-March 16, 2022 | Alameda and San Mateo, CA: Yerba Buena Center for Artist Power Convenings for artists of color
• Until Filled | Newark, NJ: Newark Arts seeks Executive Director
• Until Filled | 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.