Of Note: The Americans for the Arts is mapping the future of arts and culture — and they need your voice to do it. The 2026 National Arts Policy Survey takes two minutes (really!) and directly shapes the federal policy agenda for our field. Five questions covering NEA funding, arts education, creative workforce support, and more. The data makes the case. Your story makes it matter.
Call for Performers FIFA Fan Festival is kicking off on June 12th at City Hall Plaza. They are looking for local entertainers, performers, and creators to help bring the heart of the Commonwealth to life. Learn more.
Deadline Approaching: May 8, 2026
Call for Art The Mount Washington Observatory, in partnership with the Appalachian Mountain Club and Hubbard Brook Research Foundation, seeks an artist to partner with for the second edition of The White Mountains Almanac. Learn more.
Deadline: May 12, 2026
Artist Residency The Women’s Studio Workshop is accepting applications for its Studio Workspace Residency, open to all women and trans, intersex, nonbinary, and genderfluid people, in Rosendale, NY. Learn more.
Deadline: May 15, 2026
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Craft Artists The Fitchburg Art Museum’s annual Regional Exhibition of Art & Craft (June 20, 2026 – September 13, 2026) is one of the longest-running juried exhibitions in New England. This tradition at the Fitchburg Art Museum spotlights the artists and crafters of our region by providing a museum environment for their work and connecting them with fellow creators, patrons, and art enthusiasts. The First Prize winner will have a solo exhibition alongside The 91st Regional Exhibition of Art & Craft in 2027. Fee: $10 Student (someone currently enrolled in high school, college, or an arts program), $20 Current FAM member, $40 Renewing and non-FAM member. Learn more.
Deadline: May 15, 2026
Choreographers Jacob’s Pillow is accepting applications for its Curriculum in Motion Institute for choreographers in Becket, MA. Each year, they welcome a new cohort of teaching artists, choreographers, and arts educators from diverse dance backgrounds who want to strengthen their choreographic voice with a community focus. Learn more.
Deadline: May 18, 2026
Center for Craft – 2026 Craft Archive Fellowship Four $5,000 awards will be offered to fellows conducting research on underrepresented craft histories. The fellowship will culminate with a featured article on Hyperallergic and a virtual program hosted by the Center for Craft. Learn more.
Deadline: May 20, 2026.
Call to Artists Gallery A2 invites artists to submit a portfolio, a body of work–three or more objects–a collection of pieces holding a concept or idea. We are looking for emerging, early, and mid-career creative practitioners whose submission reads as a unified vessel of work. Vessel seeks 10-15 artists each showing a vessel collection. Learn more.
Deadline: May 24, 2026
Call for Artists Request for Qualifications is a national call for a Public Art commission for the University of Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay Campus Ocean Robotics Laboratory. The budget for artwork is $140,000. This RFQ is the first step in the public art selection process. Note: Do not submit a specific proposal. You will submit your qualifications (examples of previous work and resume). After a review of qualifications, the selection committee will invite the finalists to visit the campus. Finalists will then propose a site-specific artwork for the Ocean Robotics Laboratory. Learn more.
Deadline: May 26, 2026
Virtual Art Residency This program invites creative explorations of terrestrial ecosystems, whether through caring for forests, combating desertification, restoring degraded land, or responding to urgent biodiversity loss. Artists are encouraged to engage with these themes from cultural, scientific, ancestral or community-rooted perspectives, contributing to a global conversation about how we can safeguard and regenerate the landscapes that sustain life. Learn more.
Deadline: May 31, 2026
Grant for Writing About Sculpture Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation will award one $20,000 grant to a writer who demonstrates a serious commitment to writing about sculpture, through fresh thinking on the history, aesthetics, purposes, imagination and/or situation of sculpture. Learn more.
Deadline: May 31, 2026
Craft Artists The Oak Spring Garden Foundation is accepting applications for their Fellowship for Distinction in Fine Crafts and Design. The fellowship will be awarded to an early-career craftsperson or designer whose work meaningfully engages with the natural world. It includes a $10,000 grant and a two- to five-week stay at OSGF in Northern Virginia. Learn more.
Deadline: May 31, 2026 |
Research Scholarship Applications are currently being accepted for the Provincetown Art Association and Museum’s Robert Motherwell & Renate Ponsold Fellowship, a one-year, low-residency program that supports scholars conducting original research on the visual art and artists of Outer Cape Cod. Learn more.
Deadline: June 1, 2026
Call to Artists Larkin Gallery in Harwich Port on Cape Cod invites artists to participate in their open call juried exhibit, Unity. Selections will be based on artistic and creative quality, interpretation of the theme and space allotment. There is no fee to enter. The challenge that we present with Unity is for the artist to take the idea of harmony, oneness, solidarity, belonging, togetherness, and connectedness and interpret it and express it in any way that suits your demeanor; literally, figuratively, symbolically, emotionally, designwise or abstractly. All media considered. Show dates: June 28-July 26, 2026. No fee. Learn more.
Deadline: June 1, 2026
Call for Site-Specific Sculpture Call for sculpture, site-responsive installation, and performance unfolding across the historic Allen C. Haskell Public Gardens in New Bedford, MA — a hidden gem of winding stone paths, rare plant specimens, and lush landscape design. Curated around themes of rest, play, and gathering, the exhibition opens with an evening of performances. Presented by SSH with The Trustees of Reservations. Sponsored by Massachusetts Cultural Council and New Bedford Cultural Council. Exhibition: August 8–September 19, 2026 | Opening Night Performances & Activations: August 8, 2026. No application fee. Learn more.
Deadline: June 3, 2026
New England Filmmakers New England filmmakers are encouraged to apply to the LEF New England Flaherty Film Seminar Fellowship. The Flaherty Film Seminar takes place this year on October 8-11, 2026 in Marlboro, Vermont, near the Flaherty Farm where the seminar was first started by Robert and Frances Flaherty over 70 years ago. The seminar is a great opportunity for film artists to connect with programmers, scholars, and other filmmakers from around the globe. The LEF Fellowships provide funding for three New England-based documentary filmmakers to attend the Seminar in person. Learn more.
Deadline: June 9, 2026
Poets Entries for the Academy of American Poets – James Laughlin Award are currently being accepted. The winning poet receives $5,000, an all-expenses-paid weeklong residency in Miami Beach, and distribution of their book to approximately 1,000 Academy of American Poets members. Learn more.
Deadline: June 15, 2026
Fiction Prize Entries are currently being accepted for the 2026 NEW AMERICAN Fiction Prize. $1,500 and book publication. Deadline: June 15. Minimum length: 100 pages (no maximum). Final judge: Shirley Jackson Award winner Keith Rosson, author of Coffin Moon and The Devil by Name. Reading fee: $25. Online submissions only. Learn more.
Deadline: June 15, 2026
Jamaica Plain Porchfest Performers Performer signups are now open for the JP Porchfest (Saturday, August 16, 2025, from roughly 12-6 pm. Rain Date: Sunday, August 17, 2025). Performer Sign-ups open May 19. 2026. Learn more.
Deadline: June 30, 2026
Image credit: Cornelius Johnson, winner of the gold medal at the 1936 Olympics, in a high jump, digital file from original negative film. From the collection of the Library of Congress.
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