October 2022 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

• September 28, 2022 | Boston, MA: Mass Cultural Council's Cultural Sector Recovery Grants for Organizations

• September 30, 2022 | Roxbury, MA: City of Boston seeks applicants for Bartlett Place A (2505 Washington Street, Roxbury, MA) Income-Restricted Housing Lottery by 4:00 PM 

• September 30, 2022 | Beverly, MA: Attend the Essex County Arts and Culture Summit

• October 1, 2022 | Jamestown, RI: Jamestown Arts Center's Call to Artists + Curators for proposals for 2024 and beyond

• October 7, 2022 | Montpelier, VT: Vermont Arts Council's Creative Futures Grantseeker Workshop

• October 10, 2022 | Newton, MA: Celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day in Newton, MA with Indigenous vendors, traditional dancing, and food and music; 11:00 am to 5:00 pm at Albemarle Park

• October 14-16, 2022 | Boston, MA: City of Boston's Fort Point Open Studios

• October 15-16, 2022 | Boston, MA: City of Boston's Roslindale Open Studios

• October 17, 2022 | Boston, MA: City of Boston's Cultural Council Grants

• October 17, 2022 | Watertown, MA: Deadline to apply for support from the Watertown Cultural Council. 

• October 17, 2022 | Boston, MA: Poetry Craft Gallery Open Call for Speak Up 2022

• October 17, 2022 | Boston, MA: NEFA's Collective Imagination for Spatial Justice and Public Art for Spatial Justice Grants

• October 17, 2022 | Boston, MA: Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston's Creative Entrepreneur Fellowship and Walter Feldman Fellowship for Emerging Artists

• October 20, 2022 | Boston, MA: MassArt's Creative Economy Workshop: Branding for Creative Businesses

• October 21, 2022 | Salem, MA: Massachusetts Poetry Festival seeks proposals for in-person events (festival occurs May 5-7, 2023)

• October 21, 2022 | Natick, MA: Natick Call for Artists: Summer 2023 Outdoor Reading Rooms

• October 27, 2022 | Boston, MA: MassArt's Creative Economy Workshop: Mastering Art Markets and Pop-Ups 

• November 1, 2022 | Montpelier, VT: Vermont Arts Council's Creative Futures Grant

• November 1-16, 2022 | Hartford, CT & Virtual: National Theater Project's Regional Convening in New England

• November 1, 2022 | Boston, MA: Mass Cultural Council's Cultural Sector Recovery Grants for Individuals

• November 2, 2022 | Worcester, MA: NEFA's 20th Annual Idea Swap

• November 3, 2022 | Boston, MA: MassArt's Creative Economy Workshop: How to Give Your Brand a Marketing Edge Through Strategic Storytelling

• November 7, 2022 | Boston, MA: NEFA seeks Program Officer, Creative Economy

• November 14, 2022 | New Bedford, MA:  New Bedford Call for Artists: New Bedford Cove Walk

• November 20, 2022 | Lawrence, MA:  2023 Essex Artist Center Artist Residency

• November 30, 2022 | Irvine, CA: Arts Orange County's Newport Beach Civic Center Culture Exhibition Call for Public Art

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

• December 11, 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 31, 2023 | Montpelier, VT: Vermont Arts Council's Artist Development Grants

• 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, a Youth Education Manager, and a Gallery Assistant

• 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 | Roxbury, MA: Greater Roxbury Arts and Culture Center seeks Executive Director

• Until Filled | Hartford, CT: Harriet Beacher Stowe Center seeks Executive 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 | Becket, MA: Jacob's Pillow seeks Chief Marketing Officer 

• 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: projectSTEP seeks Executive Director

• 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

• Keene, NH: Arts Alive! Fiscal Sponsorships

National & International Opportunities

• September 30, 2022 | Jackson, MS: Mississippi Arts Commission seeks Executive Director
• October 1, 2022 | Columbia, SC: Director-level positions in Artist Development, Creative Placemaking, and Rural Arts at South Carolina Arts Commission
• October 7, 2022 | New York, NY: Deadline to participate in the APAP Arts Compensation Project
• October 11, 222 | Deadline to submit nominations for the Dance/USA's Honor and "Ernie" Awards. 
• October 14, 2022 | applications due for the Rauschenberg Dancer Emergency Grant
• October 14, 2022 | IABD's Call for Instructors for the 2023 Annual International Conference and Festival
• October 19, 2022 | Washington, DC: Call for Letters of Interest - Dance/USA 2023 Summer Fellowships in Archiving & Preservation
• October 19, 2022 | webinar: A National Conversation about Dance, Present and Future, from Entertainment Community Fund
• October  28, 2022 | applications due for the Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grant
• October 19, 2022 | submit a letter of interest for Dance/USA's 2023 Archiving and Preservation Fellowship

• October 31, 2022 | East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University's Creativity in the Time of Covid-19

• November 1, 2022 | Applications open for the Performing Arts Discovery program, operated by the Western Arts Alliance

• December 1, 2022 | Omaha, NB: Nebraska Arts Council seeks Executive Director
• December 15, 2022 | Dear Human at the Edge of Time Call for Poems about climate change
• January 13-17, 2023 | New York, NY: Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP | NYC) Conference
• 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
• Until Filled | Kansas City, MO: Mid-America Arts Alliance seeks Communications Manager
• Until Filled | Portland, OR: Western Arts Alliance seeks an Executive Director
• 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.