Call for Session Proposals: Lowell Artists Thrive Summit Submit proposals for sessions that engage artists, cultural workers, educators, organizers, and creatives in exploring how access to creative spaces—physical, virtual, and conceptual—shapes creative opportunity, belonging, and community resilience. In particular, they welcome sessions addressing strategies to preserve or develop permanent and affordable creative spaces in the face of gentrification, ensuring that artists remain integral to the neighborhoods they help enliven. Sessions should offer practical frameworks, real-life examples, tools, and/or interactive engagement that empower participants to act locally and sustainably. Presenters accepted will receive a $200 honorarium per presenter. Learn more.
Deadline: November 21, 2025 at 11:59 PM ET
Professional Development for Boston Area Artists The Arts Action Consortium is an initiative led by six Boston-based cultural organizations in collaboration with the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture that offers events, resources, and programming to strengthen and sustain Boston’s creative workforce. Upcoming workshops include: Gallery Representation, November 19 from 6 – 7:30 p.m; Resource Mapping for Individual Artists, December 3 from 6 – 8 p.m. Learn more.
Native Artist Professional Development Training First People’s Fund, in collaboration with Turtle Island Community Capital and Rhode Island School of Design, is offering a Two-Day Native Artist Professional Development Training. November 21-22, 2025, Providence, Rhode Island. The two-day trainings is designed to give artists real-world tools and detailed resources to navigate the arts industry and become successful entrepreneurs. The training is intended for emerging and seasoned artists alike. Learn more.
Call for Muralist The Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy is holding the first-ever national Open Call for its iconic Dewey Square Mural. Five finalists will be awarded $5,000 to develop and submit full mural proposals, and the selected artist or artist team will receive a $25,000 commission along with a $50,000 production budget. Learn more.
Deadline: November 22, 2025
Call to Artists The Open Door Gallery is accepting entries for their annual open call for art, Repeat After Me. The exhibit will run March 4 – May 15, 2026 at Open Door Gallery at the Worcester Art Museum (ODG@WAM). Selected artists will receive a $250 stipend. Who can apply: Artists with disabilities who live in Massachusetts ages 18+. This includes anyone who self-identifies as disabled/having a disability. You do not need to share your disability with them to submit. Please note: The exhibit curators will give priority to artists who have not exhibited in ODG@WAM in the last year. Learn more.
Deadline Approaching: November 23, 2025
Drawing Exhibition As part of an ongoing commitment to promote drawing practices in the visual arts, the University of North Carolina Asheville (UNC Asheville) invites artists to submit entries to a Juried International Exhibition of contemporary drawing. UNC Asheville seeks to examine drawing as it is practiced and defined by today’s artists. Such an exhibition will demonstrate the continued significance of drawing through conventional and innovative methods. Accepted work will be exhibited in UNC Asheville’s S. Tucker Cooke Gallery from January 16, 2026, through February 13, 2026. Learn more.
Deadline: November 30, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. (Mountain Time Zone)
Beard and Weil Galleries Artist Residency Open call for artist-in-residence at Wheaton College, Norton, MA. One month residency (January 16-February 14, 2026) includes studio space, $1,400 honorarium, and materials budget. the residency supports the artistic development of professional artists while advancing creative and artistic excellence within the Wheaton community. Free to apply. Learn more.
Deadline: November 30, 2025 at midnight
Public Art for Spatial Justice Grants Public Art for Spatial Justice supports public art that creatively expresses and embodies a more just version of what’s possible in public. Massachusetts-based artist(s) and Massachusetts-based organizations working with artist(s), are welcome to apply for a project grant. Projects must take place in Massachusetts and creatively cultivate expressions or embodiments of spatial justice through public artmaking. All artistic disciplines are welcome to apply. Public Art for Spatial Justice grants range from $15,000-$30,000, for up to two-year grant period beginning March 2026 through February 2028. Learn more.
Deadline: December 2, 2025
Cross-Sector Resource: Massachusetts Health Connector Webinar As part of their Artivist Town Hall webinar series, MASSCreative is hosting the Massachusetts Health Connector for a session about Open Enrollment on Wednesday, December 3, from 12:30-1:30pm. Open Enrollment is the time of year when individuals and families in need of health insurance can freely sign up for or change their plan, if you plan to or already receive health insurance coverage through the Massachusetts Health Connector. The Massachusetts Health Connector is the Commonwealth’s health insurance Marketplace, offering plans for Massachusetts individuals, families, and small businesses. This year’s Open Enrollment period runs from November 1, 2025 through January 23, 2026. More information, including registration, is available online.
Photographers The Griffin Museum of Photography is accepting entries for their Winter Solstice Members Exhibition. The show runs from December 5, 2025 – January 4, 2026. Members are welcome to submit one physical print for display at the Main Gallery of the Griffin Museum. Learn more
Deadline: December 1, 2025
Professional Development for Artists Assets for Artists is offers free, online workshops for artists: “Resource Mapping for Individual Artists” with Ana Tinajero. 6-8 p.m., Dec. 3, 2025; “Intro to Taxes for Artists” with Amy Smith. 6-8 p.m., Dec. 8, 2025.
Call to Artists Mosesian Arts invites artists to submit work inspired by the landscape for the exhibition, Contemporary Landscape From Observational to Symbolic. Landscape in art is a broad theme that spans from depictions of the natural world, the urban and industrial landscapes to the landscape as a symbolic representation. Mosesian Arts is seeking work where the landscape takes center stage. The work can be focused on the natural world as perceived by the artist or can be more interpretive and nonliteral. Artists working in all media are encouraged to submit. Learn more.
Deadline: December 8, 2025
Call for Artists Art Fluent invites artists to submit artwork to their online exhibit, In the Pink. Over $1,200 in cash prizes. All accepted pieces will be displayed in their online gallery. Learn more.
Deadline: December 12, 2025, at midnight (MST)
Professional Development Applications Are Open For North Berkshire & Worcester County Capacity-Building Cohorts. The Capacity-Building Program provides individualized, artist-centered professional development to help artists strengthen their creative practice, pursue values-driven careers, build mutually-supportive networks and find resources to achieve long term sustainability and self-determination. Over the course of six months, Capacity-Building Program artists attend a series of scheduled cohort gatherings and workshops aimed at simultaneously building professional skills and a creative community, and receive $2,000 in unrestricted funds. Learn more for North Berkshire artists and for Worcester County artists.
Deadline: December 15, 2025
Thoma Foundation – Art of the Spanish Americas: Individual Awards Art historians, curators, scholars, and advanced graduate students can apply for funding to support projects, research, and travel that will further the field of art of the Spanish Americas. International applicants, particularly those from Latin America, are strongly encouraged to apply. Learn more.
Deadlines: December 15, 2025 & January 15, 2026 |
Printmaking Residency Fellowship Zea Mays Printmaking in Florence, MA, is offering a subsidized fellowship for a 2-week residency in our printmaking studio to one practicing printmaker or a pair of 2 collaborative printmakers. Applicants are strongly encouraged to demonstrate a commitment to Zea Mays Printmaking’s mission to research, practice and share safer and non-toxic printmaking processes. 2026 Residency Fellowship Dates: May 25-June 7, 2026. Learn more.
Deadline: December 31, 2025
Funding for Film, Video Directors, Producers Filmmakers New England-based directors and producers seeking production and post-production funds for feature-length (40+ min) nonfiction film and video projects are encouraged to apply for LEF’s next grant. The Moving Image Fund’s Production and Post-production grants have a two-part application process. Filmmakers interested in applying for project support must first submit a brief Letter of Inquiry (LOI). Learn more.
Deadline: January 16, 2026
Creative Employment in Massachusetts Mass Cultural Council is proud to offer Hire Culture, a FREE, searchable database of cultural employment opportunities throughout Massachusetts. Employment positions include administrative, production, volunteer, and intern opportunities. Learn more.
Summer Ceramics Residency In Arkansas, Eureka Springs School of the Arts seeks ceramics artists for a seven-week Spring/Summer 2026 residency, May 30–July 18. Up to two residents receive $500 honorarium, on-campus lodging, and 24/7 studio and kiln access—an immersive opportunity to create, refine, and explore your practice. Learn more.
Deadline: February 18, 2025
Image credit: Works Progress Administration (WPA) Art, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Art and Artifacts Division, The New York Public Library. “Girl with Blue Hair” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1935 – 1943.
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