May 2021 Jobs & Opportunities

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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.

Opportunities in New England

May 15, 2021 | Putney, VT: Deadline to apply for Sandglass Theater's Summer Intensive Puppetry Training (July 11-14, 2021)
May 15, 2021 | Brockton, MA: Brockton Symphony Orchestra seeks Marketing/Fundraising Manager
May 17, 2021 | Hyde Square, MA: Deadline to apply for Boston's Latin Quarter Call to Artists / Convocatoria a Artistas, via Hyde Square Task Force
May 21-22, 2021 | East Haddam, CT: East Haddam Stage Company is holding Audtions for "A Scandal in Bohemia." Email INFO@EHSCO.ORG for more information.
May 21, 2021 | Boston, MA: Deadline to apply to the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston's ICA Museum Fellowship
June 1, 2021 | VT: Vermont Dance Alliance seeks part-time Executive Director
June 1, 2021 | Boston, MA: Chavez Design Studio is looking for a dynamic, self-motivated, Studio Intern with a good understanding of painting, color and art materials to support Artist/Designer Silvia Lopez Chavez at her studio in East Boston and on large scale, site-specific art projects throughout the Boston area. The position is for 8 hours (two afternoons/week) with flexibility for more hours during installations. For more information email chavezdesignstudio@gmail.com
June 4, 2021 | Brookline, MA: The Brookline Arts Center is seeking proposals for a temporary mural to be exhibited in their Annex Gallery in Fall 2021
June 7, 2021 | Milton, MA: New England Sculptors Association (NESA) and Historic New England's Juried Prize Outdoor Exhibition for Sculpture, Looking Back with 2020 Vision
June 15, 2021 | Cambridge, MA: Deadline to apply to Orbis Editions' Cantabrigia Award for artists and writers
June 15, 2021 | Boston, MA: Deadline to apply to the Collective Futures Fund
July 8, 2021 | North Adams, MA: The Studios at MASS MoCA's Winter/Spring 2022 residency
Through June: Mass Cultural Council's Recover, Rebuild, Renew series of events, in response to COVID-19
Until Filled | Becket, MA: Jacob's Pillow seeks Chief Marketing Officer
Until Filled | Boston, MA: Global Arts Live seeks Executive Director
Until Filled | Boston, MA: the Boston Foundation seeks Director, Arts and Culture
Until Filled | Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston seeks Ellyn McColgan Assistant Curator, Native American Art
Until Filled | Maine: Cultural Alliance of Maine seeks a year-long Pilot Project Director

National & International Opportunities

May 15, 2021 | Washington, D.C.: DeVos Institute of Arts Management's Pro Bono Consultation in Support of Organizations Focused on Social Cohesion Through the Arts
May 15, 2021 | Frederick, MD: air institute's Crisis Analysis & Mitigation Coach Training Program
May 15, 2021 | New York, NY: Deadline to apply to The Kitchen's 2021-22 Curatorial Fellowship
May 15, 2021 | New York, NY: Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
May 16, 2021 | New York, NY: Laundromat Project's Bed-Stuy Create & Connect Fund
May 17, 2021 | Washington, D.C.: National Endowment for the Arts' 2021 Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge
May 18, 2021 | Hopper Prize for Visual Arts
May 19, 2021 | Andy Warhol Arts Writer Grant
May 19, 2021 | New York, NY: Asian American Arts Alliance's May Town Hall Celebrates AAPI Heritage Month
May 24, 2021 | Equity in the Center seeks Operations Associate
May 24, 2021 | New York, NY: New York Public Library's Making Money with Music: A Professional Talk on Getting Live and Virtual Shows
May 26, 2021 | Los Angeles, CA: Center for Cultural Innovation's SCI Artist-Innovation Fund
May 27, 2021 | Allied Media Project's Bloom Speaker Series: Ancestral Ceremonies
May 27, 2021 | Online: Asian American Arts Alliance's Creating Wellness: The Power of Art Therapy
June 1, 2021 | New York, NY: Leon Levy Foundation Covid Relief Fund
June 3-6, 2021 | New York, NY: Film Lab's 72 Hour Shoot Out
June 7, 2021 | Oakland, CA: Windcall Institute's Windcall Residency
June 7, 2021 | Los Angeles, CA: Call for submissions for Native Voices’ 11th Annual Short Play Festival
June 8-22, 2021 | New York, NY: Vangeline Theater/New York Butoh Institute's Queer Butoh 2021
June 10, 2021 | Allied Media Project's Bloom Speaker Series: Deep Work
June 10-13, 2021 | New York, NY: 2021 Virtual DUMBO Dance Festival
June 10, 2021 | Innovate Grants for Artists and Photographers
June 11, 2021 | New York, NY: 2022 Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise in Dance
June 14-18, 2021 | Austin, TX: ARCOS Dance's Summer UNtensive: We're Not Going Back
June 14-18, 2021 | Zoom: Cornerstone Theater Company's Cornerstone Intensive
June 15, 2021 | New York, NY: New York Foundation for the Arts' (NYFA) The Barbara and Carl Zydney Grant for Artists with Disabilities
June 15, 2021 | New York, NY: Deadline to apply to The Theatre Leadership Project's Prince Fellowship for Producers
June 15, 2021 | New York, NY: Teaching Artist Project's Summer Institute
June 17, 2021 | Zoom: Cornerstone Theater Company's The D/N/Lakota Project Book Club conversation between David Weiden and playwright Larissa FastHorse
June 17-19, 2021 | Sozo Vision's Healing Forward: Journey into Allyship
June 20, 2021 | Brooklyn, NY: Wingspace Theatrical Design's Mentorship Program
June 23, 2021 | New York, NY: Artist Relief Fund
June 27, 2021 | New York, NY: NYC Cultural Affairs Public Artist in Residence
July 1, 2021 | New York: Deadline for the juried SPRING/BREAK Art Show
Until Filled | Native Arts and Cultures Foundation seeks Vice President of Development
Until Filled | Asheville, NC: Sunlight Tax seeks Administrative Assistant
Until Filled | New York, NY: Capacity Interactive seeks Manager, Graphic Design & Branding
Until Filled | New York, NY: Asian American Writers' Workshop seeks Digital Communications Coordinator
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
Ongoing: South Arts' Jazz Road Presenters Survey
New York, NY: Lincoln Center open positions
New York, NY: The Japan Society Open Positions
Arts Consulting Group's list of employment opportunities

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.
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.