Today is Election Day. Vote! You can find your polling place online if you don’t know the location. Polling places are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. for all state primaries and elections in Massachusetts. Cities and towns are allowed to open their polling places as early as 5:45 a.m. Polling hours will vary by community for municipal elections. If you’re in line when the polls close, you will still be able to vote. Check with your local election office for voting hours for local elections.
Photographers Scholarship The John Chervinsky Emerging Photographer Scholarship seeks to recognize, encourage and reward photographers with the potential to create a body of work and sustain solo exhibitions. Awarded annually, the Scholarship provides recipients with a monetary award of $3,000, exhibition of their work at the Griffin Museum of Photography, and a volume from John’s personal library of photography books. The Scholarship seeks to provide a watershed moment in the professional lives of emerging photographers, providing them with the support and encouragement necessary to develop, articulate and grow their own vision for photography. Learn more.
Deadline: November 6, 2026
Boston Area Poets The City of Boston is calling for poets for the Living Poets Project. Through this initiative, poets facilitate readings, workshops, collaborative writing, conversations, and other interactive literary experiences in Boston schools, sharing their work and creative practice while creating opportunities for students to engage with poetry and explore their own voices.
Virtual office hours: Monday, November 9, 2026 at 5 p.m. and Monday, November 30, 2026 at 5 p.m. Learn more.
Deadline: December 7, 2026 at 5 p.m.
Free Workshop for Western MA Artists The ArtsHub of Western MA is hosting a free workshop, Be the Artist People Find, on Saturday, November 7, from 1 to 3 PM at Holyoke Media, 1 Court Avenue, Holyoke. Space is limited. The workshop covers how people find artists on Google, Maps, and AI tools like ChatGPT, and how your ArtsHub profile supports your website and social accounts. They will help artists build or refresh their profiles live. Bring a laptop, a short bio, and your best images. Artists at every stage and arts organizations are welcome. Residents of South Hadley and Holyoke get priority for spots, but wherever you live in Western MA, you’re welcome to register. Learn more.
Deadline: Register by Thursday, November 5, 2026
New England Dramatist Guild Panel Discussion Artificial Intelligence and Writing for the Theater: Help or Horror? The impact of Artificial Intelligence on playwrights and the theater will be explored through a free panel discussion on the impact of AI on playwrights and theater. This discussion will take place on Monday, November 9, 2026 at Emerson College’s 1880 Room, located at 186 Tremont Street, Boston. There will be a networking reception from 6-7 pm, with the panel from 7-8:30. Learn more and register.
Emerging Artist Fellowship Dunamis’s Emerging Artist Fellowship is offering Professional development training for emerging artists of color. Learn more.
Deadline: November 10, 2026
Boston Artist Residency Program Boston’s artist-in-residence program, AiR Boston is currently accepting applications. This innovative artist residency will bring artists into city government to explore the complex challenges facing Boston through new forms of creative practice, research, and experimentation. They are looking for three artists to complete year-long residencies with our colleagues at: the Boston Public Health Commission, The City of Boston Archives, and The Mayor’s Housing Innovation Lab. Each artist will work in partnership with their City of Boston partner and a community-based organization of their choosing to develop projects. These might take the form of a gathering, process, experiment, prototype, performance, publication, civic tool, or something we haven’t imagined yet. Virtual Q&A Session: November 10, 2026 at 6 p.m. Learn more.
Deadline: January 4, 2027 at 2 p.m.
Call to Artists The Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, CT, is currently accepting applications for the 2027 MIXMASTER Juried Show. The exhibit seeks to discover and recognize the talents of the Mattatuck Museum’s artist members working in New England and the Tri-State region. MIXMASTER provides an opportunity for established and emerging artists alike to debut their most recent work. Artists 18 years and older from New England and the Tri-State area are invited to visit. Learn more.
Deadline: November 13, 2026
Calls for Proposals Studio 170 programs at Goethe-Institut Boston are open and accepting applications. Since 2019, Studio 170 offers artists of all ages and disciplines from New England a chance to use the institute’s beautiful public space as a laboratory for ideas during a two-week residency period, which includes a stipend of $1000 and $1000 for materials. Learn more. To promote cross-cultural exchange the Goethe-Institut furthermore offers a travel stipend for New England based artists who are planning an artist residency or a collaborative project in Germany. Learn more.
Deadline: Both programs are open until November 22, 2026
Call to Artists The Bristol Art Museum is currently accepting entries for their collage art exhibition, Torn Boundaries. This exhibit invites artists to explore the boundaries that define, separate, connect, and sometimes divide us. Boundaries can be physical or psychological, personal or cultural, geographic or political, historical or imagined. They can define the edge of a body, a place, an image, an identity, or shape our understanding of where one thing ends and another begins. Learn more.
Deadline: November 29, 2026
Outer Cape Grant Applications are currently being accepted for the Urvashi Vaid Changemakers Fund, a grant to fund programs or projects that activate communities on Outer Cape Cod (Provincetown – Orleans) around shared challenges and that creatively build relationships across differences. Named after and based on the activism of Urvashi Vaid, the Changemakers Fund will support programs and projects with a foundation in intersectionality; projects that initiate community conversation, collaboration, or change are welcome. Individuals, nonprofits, and small businesses are encouraged to apply. Maximum grant amount is $10,000. Applications for grants up to $500 are accepted year-round. Applications for grants $501 – $10,000. Learn more.
Deadline: December 1, 2026
Technical Assistance Mass Cultural Council is not only the largest public funder for arts and culture in Massachusetts: we serve as stewards, advocates, partners, and catalysts. Working with a variety of cultural organizations, creative businesses, community leaders, and individual artists, our staff has developed numerous toolkits and resources to champion the sector’s collective needs and to expand cross-sector opportunities. Learn more.
Cross Sector Resource The Joan Mitchell Foundation, through the Creating a Living Legacy (CALL) initiative, made available legacy and estate planning guides that provide artists and their supporters with professional guidance and practical tools for their legacy planning journeys. Learn more.
Image credit: Portrait of John Adams by John Singleton Copley, 1783, oil on canvas, portrait painting, 93.7 in × 58 in. From the collection of the Harvard Art Museums, Boston. Adams is shown at full-length, pointing towards a map and a globe, both displaying the newly created United States.
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