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Military Families Visit Museums for Free this Summer as part of Blue Star Museum Actively serving military members and their families can visit participating museums nationwide for free this summer as part of Blue Star Museums. The program continues through Labor Day, Monday, September 1, 2025. Participating museums can be found in all 50 states, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and Guam. They include history, art, and children’s museums; historical sites; botanical gardens; zoos; aquariums; and more. Learn more.
Musicians Wanted for Cambridge Porchfest Cambridgeport will be hosting a portion of Cambridge’s first ever Porchfest on Saturday, July 19, 2025, and they’re looking for performers, hosts and volunteers. Porchfest is a free, walkable, musical, community DIY event: Cambridgeport residents host talented local performers on their porches (or patios, or backyards, or whatever), and attendees enjoy the music and the neighborhood. The Cambridgeport Neighborhood Association has received a grant from the Cambridge Arts Council to lead this pilot, inaugural fest. Additional 2025 Cambridge Porchfest performances will take place around Central Square along Massachusetts Avenue on Sunday, July 20, via a partnership with the Central Square Business Improvement District and local businesses in the Central Square Cultural District. Read Performer FAQs. Sign up to perform.
Deadline: July 6, at 11:59 p.m.
CyberFrames Open Call Calling both local and non-local Digital Artists, New Media Artists, Animators, Filmmakers, Video Artists, Interdisciplinary Artists, etc. to submit Games/Gaming themed work. Beginning July 2025, Boston Cyberarts Gallery will be launching its first iteration of CyberFrames, an Open Call, to activate the front windows of the gallery. The general theme for this call is Games/Gaming, which can be addressed through a variety of approaches, such as aesthetics or process. Artists are invited to submit experimental film, animation, video art, performance documentation, game documentation, functioning game URLs, etc. for consideration. Both horizontally and vertically oriented works will be considered. Submissions accepted now through the month of July 2025. Initial round of notifications of acceptance will be made by July 10th, while submissions that come in on and beyond July 10th will be decided on a weekly basis. Accepted work will be displayed beginning July 14th – August 15th in the gallery’s front windows. Please contact info@bostoncyberarts.org with any questions. Learn more.
Cambridge Arts Open Studios Cambridge Arts Open Studios is a city-wide event on Sept. 20 and 21, 2025, that celebrates the creativity that is Cambridge. It showcases paintings, prints, clothing, ceramics and other creations made by local artists, who invite visitors into their studios or into group exhibitions in Common Venues throughout the city. Artists who live, attend school, or work in Cambridge are encouraged to participate. You must be 18 to take part. Each participating artist must register and pay the entry fee. If more than one artist is exhibiting in the same space each artist must register independently. Learn more.
Deadline: July 7, 2025
Call For Art FIGMENT welcomes works in every imaginable medium including sculpture, installation, performance, music, workshops, games, experiences, site-specific pieces, social experiments, and anything else you can dream of. They invite any project that inspires visitors to participate and interact with art. Questions, contact boston@figmentproject.org. Learn more.
Deadline: Extended through July 10, 2025
Call for Muralist The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts has announced a call for a mural for the Eleanor Slater Hospital, Regan Building, Cranston, Rhode Island. Budget: $65,000. The exterior Call solicits a courtyard mural for the ground-floor north wall (13 feet high x 76 feet wide). A figurative, realistic design that references the natural world; creates a sense of space; or is calming, peaceful, and soothing is desired. The work should avoid the use of bright colors, abstraction or geometrics. The final mural should utilize the Polytab or “parachute cloth” method. Learn more.
Deadline: July 11, 2025
Call to Artists The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts has announced a call for artists for multiple interior works for the Regan Building, Eleanor Slater Hospital, Cranston, Rhode Island. Budget: $160,000. Learn more.
Deadline: July 11, 2025
Small Works Project Massachusetts-based visual artists working in drawing, painting, collage, photography, fiber, and other two-dimensional media are invited to apply for the Gallery 263 Small Works Project. This project presents original, quality artwork in flat file drawers in the gallery and on our website. Artists will be selected by the staff and board of Gallery 263 based on the quality of their work and commitment to their practice. With the guidance of Gallery 263 staff, visitors will be able to carefully browse and handle works from the flat files. Participating artists will be able to display works in their flat file drawer, with the ability to add or remove work as they like during this time. Works will be stacked in each drawer. Artists are encouraged to replace sold pieces with new work. The drawers, which are located at the back of the gallery, are open for viewing during gallery hours or by appointment. We invite artists of all career levels to submit. Learn more and apply.
Deadline: July 13, 2025
First Peoples Fund Artist in Business Leadership Fellowship is a yearlong program that helps independent Native artists pursue art as a way to build a business to support themselves and their families. The program provides them with network-building, professional development guidance and funding towards business needs. The ABL Fellowship offers $10,000 in grant funding towards a proposed project that supports the artist or culture bearer’s work in their community. Applications are open to artists at all stages of their career. Learn more.
Deadline: July 16, 2025 at 6pm MT
Free Professional Development for Artists Creative Capital Artist Lab is a new online professional development curriculum designed to help artists build thriving practices at any career stage and in any discipline. Free for individual use, courses are created by art professionals, industry experts, and fellow artists who share vital concepts, skills, and tools to help grow artists’ careers—including courses on crafting artist statements, grant proposals, managing multiple income streams, and more.
Of Note: Harvard Art Museums offers free admission to all visitors every day! Learn more.
Image credit: American 19th Century, Liberty, painting, c. 1800/1820, oil on canvas, 29 7/8 x 20 1/16 inches, from the collection of the National Gallery of Art.
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