MASSCreative Survey: Help MASSCreative create their creative sector legislative agenda for the 2025-2026 legislative session by taking their survey. Due by December 2, 2024
Of Note: TransCultural Exchange’s 2025 International Conference on Opportunities in the Arts: Avenues for Daring will take place March 7-9, 2025 at The Foundry, Cambridge, MA. Scholarship Applications are due December 5. Learn more.
Call for Public Art The Johnson City Public Art Committee is seeking pieces of leasable outdoor sculpture to be installed for two years in Founders Park and several other sites in Johnson City, TN. The exhibition is open to all professional artists, preferably professional sculptors, who are at least 18 years of age and reside in the United States. Learn more.
Deadline: December 6, 2024 by 4:00 p.m. (Eastern Time)
Call for Exhibition Proposals for Winter 2025 Gallery 263 in Cambridge, MA, invites artists and curators to pitch an exhibition for winter 2025 and bring your vision to life. Organize and present a well-curated exhibition of contemporary art from start to finish, with guidance and support from Gallery 263 staff. Open to New England artists of all media types and career levels. Learn more.
Deadline: December 8, 2024
Call for Poetry The city of Boston’s Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture (MOAC) is accepting submissions for “In The Life and Time Of,” an anthology curated by Boston’s Poet Laureate, Porsha Olayiwola. Learn more.
Deadline: December 15, 2024 at 11:59 p.m.
Boston City Hall Plaza Engagement Grant To honor the communal grief that the arts and culture sector is facing and respond to those most impacted by space inequity, the Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture (MOAC) will provide grants for programs and events to be held at City Hall Plaza. Through the City Hall Plaza Engagement Grant, MOAC aims to highlight programming that uplifts Boston’s diverse communities, responds to the current arts and culture climate, and restores the use of City Hall Plaza as a core space for people within the arts and culture sector. Learn more and apply.
Deadline: January 9, 2025
Call to Artists Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture (MOAC) is accepting applications for Un-monument Year 2. They are commissioning temporary monuments and supporting a projection mapping workshop so artists can imagine ways of commemorating the people, places, and events that are important to our communities. Learn more.
Deadline: January 13, 2025, at 5 p.m.
Creative Forces Community Engagement Grants The Creative Forces Community Engagement Grants are available to nonprofit organizations and state/local/tribal government entities that have at least three-years experience in presenting/producing arts-based projects and/or programming for military communities. Learn more.
Deadline: January 15, 2024
New England Nonfiction Filmmakers Through the Moving Image Fund (MIF), LEF supports the work of New England-based filmmakers across all phases of a project’s production. In November, LEF opened up its Letter of Inquiry (LOI) submission forms for feature-length (40+ minute) nonfiction projects in Production and Post-production to award grants of $15,000 and $25,000, respectively. To be eligible for Post-production funding, the project must have already been supported by LEF at a previous stage. Learn more.
Deadline: Friday, January 17 at 11:59pm ET
2025 Mount Auburn Cemetery Artist-in-Residence Applications are currently being accepted for the 2025 Mount Auburn Cemetery Artist-in-Residence program. In 2014, Mount Auburn became the first cemetery in the United States to establish an artist residency program. Each year, the chosen artists are charged with creating an original, site-specific work inspired by an in-depth experience at the Cemetery that conveys a fresh and innovative perspective of Mount Auburn. Take a look at our 2024 artists to get an idea for the range of projects. The selected artists will be notified by March 1, 2025. Learn more.
Deadline: February 1, 2025
Open Call for Public Art The MA Veterans Home Memorial is now accepting applications. If you are an artist, designer, student, and/or professional, the MA Veterans Home at Holyoke & DCAMM invite you to submit proposals for an outdoor public art memorial at the new Veterans Home located in Holyoke, MA. The deadline for RFP questions is December 16, 5:00PM EST The deadline for RFP submission is February 03, 5:00PM EST. Learn more.
Extended Deadline: February 3, 2025
Of Note: The New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) CreativeGround is NEFA’s primary tool for network and knowledge building across the New England creative economy. A unique combination of database and directory, the user-generated and maintained profiles on CreativeGround provide a real-time picture of the broad spectrum of creative people and places at work in the six New England states and the important connections between them. The platform allows the people of the creative community to share who they are, what they do, and what they contribute, advocating with their own voices for engagement, support, and investment. Learn more and create your free, online profile listing in CreativeGround.
Image credit: Educated dogs, c1875, print, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.
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