• Home
  • About
  • Mass Cultural Council Support for Artists
  • Contact

Massachusetts Cultural Council

ArtSake - New work & the creative process

  • Artist Opportunities
  • Creative Space Classifieds
  • Artist Voices
  • Useful Links
You are here: Home / archival image / Funding Available for Performing Artists

Funding Available for Performing Artists

August 25, 2010 Leave a Comment

If you’re a performing artist, you can get yourself listed (for free) as a New England States Touring (NEST) artist. Why bother? Because New England presenters can apply for funds through the NEST Program to offset the cost of your performing fees.  Learn more on becoming a NEST artist.

The next deadline for presenters to apply for NEST grants is September 1. These grants are given to nonprofit organizations in New England to support performances by select NEST artists (this could be you). NEST artists must meet the NEST artist requirements on MatchBook.org. So if you’re thing is chamber music, or contemporary dance, or opera, spoken word, puppet theater, storytelling, well you get the picture, go ahead and get yourself listed on MatchBook.org.

View presenter’s application information to apply for a NEST grant.

Image credit: Photograph from the National Archives. WPA Federal Theater Project in New York:Dance Theater:”Young Tramps”, ca. 1935. ARC Identifier 195733. Item from Collection FDR-PHOCO: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Public Domain Photographs, 1882 – 1962.

Share this:

  • Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
  • Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn
  • Share on X (Opens in new window) X
  • Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest
  • Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit
  • Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp
  • More
  • Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
  • Share on Telegram (Opens in new window) Telegram
  • Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr
  • Print (Opens in new window) Print

Like this:

Like Loading...

Filed Under: archival image, funding Tagged With: MatchBook.org, nefa, NEST

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
Join our Artist News email list

Mass Cultural Council Gallery

View more than 3,000 works by Mass Cultural Council’s Artist Fellows & Finalists online

Categories

  • accessibility (40)
  • advocacy (85)
  • archival image (406)
  • art + science (21)
  • artist to artist (104)
  • artist voices (422)
  • arts business (137)
  • arts education (6)
  • arts law (14)
  • business of art (10)
  • call to artists (891)
  • ceramics (37)
  • communities (4)
  • conceptual art (16)
  • covid-19 (25)
  • crafts (145)
  • creative individuals (11)
  • creative space (48)
  • cross-sector resource (29)
  • crowdfunding (21)
  • cyber art (35)
  • dance (145)
  • digital art (1)
  • DIY (15)
  • documentary (5)
  • drawing (171)
  • emerging (9)
  • environmental art (89)
  • fellows notes (210)
  • fellowships (96)
  • fiber (5)
  • fiction (34)
  • film/video (261)
  • from the archives (6)
  • funding (312)
  • glass (1)
  • guest blogger (26)
  • honors (41)
  • installation art (153)
  • international (1)
  • interview (103)
  • literature (382)
  • live-work space (1)
  • metalwork (4)
  • mixed media (91)
  • music (162)
  • nano-interview (88)
  • nonfiction (23)
  • open studios (43)
  • opera (4)
  • our events (44)
  • our exhibitions (56)
  • painting (259)
  • paper (7)
  • performance art (24)
  • philanthropy (6)
  • photography (218)
  • playwriting (23)
  • poetry (65)
  • professional development (152)
  • public art (112)
  • reading (7)
  • recent posts (971)
  • residencies (225)
  • screenwriting (20)
  • sculpture (162)
  • skills building (81)
  • storytelling (1)
  • studio views (63)
  • teaching artists (1)
  • technology (2)
  • textile (8)
  • theater (185)
  • three stages (17)
  • tips (100)
  • traditional arts (54)
  • trends (123)
  • video (15)
  • visual arts (78)

Homepage banner artwork: Detail of "folding a season" (2016, acrylic on board, 27x24 in) by Ilana Manolson (Mass Cultural Council Painting Fellow ’08, ’18).

Copyright © 2026 · Mass Cultural Council

privacy policy · terms & conditions of use · access policy

%d