New: Resources for Federal Workers Fed Up? Make a Difference with Team Massachusetts. Whether you’re a federal worker who wants to continue in public service or explore a career change, make a difference in Massachusetts, because your skills matter here. Learn more. Additional employment opportunities can also be found on the Mass Cultural Council’s HireCulture.
Deadline Approaching: Folklife Grants for Communities of Color Walking Together: Investing in Folklife in Communities of Color supports folklife and traditional arts rooted in communities by investing in artists/practitioners and the community organizations that care for them. The program awards $15,000 grants for traditional artists/practitioners and $50,000 grants for community organizations. Grant funds have limited restrictions and do not have to be used for a specific project. They may be used to grow your work and help you support your community’s traditions into the future. Applicants may include: Traditional artists, practitioners, and keepers of traditional knowledge rooted in communities of color, community organizations and collectives that support folklife in communities of color, including non-profits, local and Tribal governments, businesses, and more. Learn more.
Deadline: March 19, 2025
Pittsfield Artist in Residence Program This new program offers an exciting opportunity for an artist to gain creative space and exposure while engaging with t he local arts community. The program not only provides a free 6-month studio space starting in April 2025, but also includes a culminating group exhibition in October 2025, giving the resident artist a platform to showcase their work alongside the other artists at the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts. Questions, email cultural.development@cityofpittsfield.org. Learn more.
Deadline: March 19, 2025
Free Professional Development Online Workshops: Practice Best Practice workshops series teaches artists, businesses, and non-profits best practices and ways to work with the others to foster professional and financial success and taxed. Learn more.
Call to Artists Old Sturbridge Village in Sturbridge, MA is excited to host CowParade, the world’s largest public art event and has been hosted in more than 100 cities worldwide. Whether you’re a painter, sculptor, craftsperson, or simply an incredibly creative individual (or team), we welcome artists of all levels to apply—from acclaimed professionals to enthusiastic amateurs. A panel of renowned judges from New England will select standout designs to become part of this celebrated tradition that has traveled the globe. This event directly supports Old Sturbridge Village, the largest outdoor living history museum in the Northeast. Old Sturbridge Village is inviting artists to submit an application to unleash their creativity and transform a life-size cow sculpture into a unique work of art. Learn more.
Deadline: March 30, 2025
Free, Online, Professional Development Stream Now: Artist Lab on Promotional Writing for Professional Artists. Watch a recording of a live Creative Capital Artist Lab with Robin Cembalest, now available to stream. Watch now.
Creative Capital Award The Creative Capital Award provides unrestricted project grants of up to $50,000 to individual artists to create new work. For the 2026 Creative Capital Open Call, Creative Capital invites professional artists to propose experimental, original, bold new works in Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Film, and Literature from March 3–April 3, 2025. Multidisciplinary, technology, and/or socially engaged projects are welcome in all disciplinary categories. Learn more.
Deadline: March 31, 2025
Career Skills For Artists, Free Workshops Are you an artist looking for help managing your finances? Or looking for guidance on how to work with cultural institutions? Or curious about working in arts management? Cambridge Arts and the city’s Community Development Department are offering three free on-line workshops in March and April 2025 to help emerging artists develop their career skills. We are offering this opportunity to practitioners in every form of creative expression, however, there is limited availability. We encourage local artists and practitioners from historically disempowered and oppressed communities (women, people of color, veterans, individuals who are disabled, and members of the LGBTQ+ community) to register. Workshops will be offered by Dunamis, a Boston nonprofit focused on providing professional development training for emerging artists of color. Workshops will be offered virtually. Accommodations for accessibility can be made available upon request (such as closed captions, interpretation, etc.). Learn more and register.
The Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Grant Grants are offered to American painters aged 45 or older who demonstrate financial need. The primary emphasis is to promote public awareness and a commitment to American art, as well as encouraging interest in painters who lack adequate recognition. Learn more.
Deadline: April 1, 2025
Ceramic Artist Residency The Artist in Residence Program through the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard, offers dedicated artists the opportunity to involve themselves in research and growth, pushing their art in new directions in a dynamic, urban studio connected to the Harvard community. There is no fee to apply. Learn more.
Deadline: April 4, 2025
Call to Artists Art Fluent invites artists to submit artwork to our online exhibit, Baring it All. Artists have always been obsessed with the naked figure, and for good reason. It’s raw, real, and beautifully human. Whether it’s bold, vulnerable, awkward, or all of the above, nakedness forces us to stop and really see what’s underneath. Over $1,200 in cash prizes. All accepted pieces will be displayed in our online gallery at www.art-fluent.com. Learn more.
Deadline: April 4, 2025 at midnight MST
Call for Exhibition Proposals The Newton Free Library is currently accepting art applications for exhibits July – December 2025. As one of the busiest public library buildings in Massachusetts, our exhibit space is highly sought after, well-loved by library patrons, and prominently located on the first floor. We welcome applications from New England artists showing two-dimensional works that are compatible with the Walker Display system. We encourage artists from a variety of backgrounds and life experiences to apply. Learn more.
Deadline: April 11, 2025
Public Art Learning Fund The New England Foundation For the Arts (NEFA) Public Art Learning Fund provides grants of $500 to $3,000 to support professional development opportunities for New England artists to strengthen their public art practices. Through the Public Art Learning Fund, NEFA intends to foster the continued development of more equitable, inclusive, and vibrant public spaces and public life throughout New England. Learn more.
Application deadline: April 14, 2025
Lowell-Based Artists, Culture Bearers Assets for Artists invites applications from Lowell-based artists and culture bearers for our Cultural Strategy Cohort. This Cultural Strategy Cohort will support ten artists or culture bearers actively working in and around Lowell who seek more tools, strategies and community to deepen their work. Learn more.
Deadline: April 15, 2025
Call for Artists Reign, Rain, Rein, A National Juried Exhibition at the Attleboro Arts Museum in Attleboro, MA. Exhibition: June 14th–July 11th, 2025. Open to all mediums, sizes and interpretations from US-based artists. Artists could potentially represent a Reign of Terror, or heavy downpours, or a manner of restraint. You may portray “The Queen of Hearts,” or the end of a drought, or an equestrian move or tool. You could explore a period of power, or evolving climate issues, or an attempt to redirect. You might even devise a way to blend Reign, Rain, and Rein into one work of art. Six prizes of $100 each will be awarded. Learn more.
Deadline: April 18, 2025
Ceramic Artists Ceramic Botanica is a handmade ceramics showcase that blends nature and artistry, featuring functional pieces inspired by the delicate beauty of flowers. Each creation seamlessly integrates floral motifs with thoughtful design, bringing the elegance of nature into everyday life. Nationally recognized ceramic artist, Martha Grover, has invited 15 artists and will be jurying the remainder of the participating artists. This exhibition will be on view and for sale in the Handcrafted Shop at the Worcester Center for Crafts as well as listed in our online store at https://www.thehandcraftedshop.com/. There will be a $150 juror’s choice award, $100 student award and a $50 staff pick artist award. Awards will be announced at the start of the exhibition. Learn more.
Deadline: April 18, 2025
Boston Area Singers, Rappers, Poets, Dancers, Musicians, and Interdisciplinary Artists Applications are currently being accepted from artists who are interested in being featured in #HellaBlack Vol. 7, curated by Amanda Shea. This event will be hosted in the historic Cyclorama at Boston Center for the Arts. We are looking for artists from the Black, African, African American, Afro Caribbean and Afro Latine diaspora. The theme for this year is SHIFT: How does your art shift when your external and personal worlds are fracturing? In addition, think about what shift means to you in your artwork. Singers, rappers, poets, dancers, musicians, and interdisciplinary artists local to Boston or the Boston metro area can apply. Artists should be prepared to present a 10 minute performance-based set and able to attend rehearsals, tech rehearsal, and the show date. Learn more.
Deadline: April 20, 2025
Image credit: Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. Closeup view of musicians Joan Baez and Bob Dylan, August 28, 1963. Collection of the National Archives at College Park wikidata:Q38945047, Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S). U.S. Information Agency. Press and Publications Service. (ca. 1953 – ca. 1978).
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