Of Note: Elevating Online Sales. In this 2-part webinar led by Han Cao and Ayumi Horie, artists will dig deeply into strategies to best market and engage their audiences with an eye toward direct online sales. The workshop will focus on multiple tools and methods of engagement, including: photography, the website, the email list, and social media. Open and free to artists across Massachusetts. Hosted by Assets for Artists in partnership with Mass Cultural Council. Learn more and register.
June 10, 2021
Call to Artists Originally inspired by the En Plein Air door installation on NYC’s High Line, Go Out Doors – Medford expands on a summer 2020 installation celebrating the opening of The West Concord section of the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail. Ten door designs will be selected by the Medford Arts Council no later than June 18, 2021. Artists whose designs are selected will each receive a stipend of $500 per door and will be widely promoted in regional arts, tourism, and news media. Learn more.
Webinars with Arts Administrators Arts Administration Association New England is holding a series of “Sip and Chat” webinars with arts administrators from the region. The next discussion is June 10, 2021, 4 PM, featuring Andrew Recinos, President & CEO at Tessitura Network; Tom O’Connor, President at Tom O’Connor Consulting Group; and Daren Bascome, Managing Director at Proverb Agency.
Greater Boston Visual Artists The Collective Futures Fund is currently accepting applications. The fund supports visual artists and artist-run activity in the Greater Boston area through grants between $2,000 and $6,000. Learn more.
Deadline: June 15, 2021 at 11:59 p.m.
Musicians The Emerald Necklace Conservancy seeks musicians to perform during Summer on the Emerald Necklace, a series of events in Boston and Brookline parks in July and August. Summer on the Emerald Necklace is a series of concerts, fitness classes, movie nights, tours and other events in the parks, now in its 14th year. They are planning a concert series featuring small acoustic or lightly amplified performances on weeknights in July and August in four Emerald Necklace locations. The goal of these concerts is to ease back in to in-person events while having the small concerts attract a smaller but engaged audience. Learn more.
Deadline: June 15, 2021
Sculptors Boston Sculptors Galley is accepting applications for Associate Artists. Associate Artists are granted an annual group show with other Associate Artists (approximately 12-15 artists), in their 2,000 square foot gallery space. Associate Artists benefit from having their work featured for sale in their online store. Associate Artists enjoy ongoing website and social media presence with the gallery. As Associates are free from Full Member duties and responsibilities, this opportunity is an opportunity for artists living outside the Greater Boston area. Learn more.
Deadline: June 15, 2021
Filmmakers The Doc Lab Open Call is currently accepting applications. This is an 18-month fellowship program that supports filmmakers in the US from racially and ethnically underrepresented communities working on their first or second feature-length documentary film. Firelight Media provides filmmakers with customized mentorship from prominent leaders in the documentary world, as well as funding, professional development workshops, and networking opportunities. Learn more.
Deadline: June 15, 2021
Cambridge Artists, Writers Orbis Editions is accepting proposals from Cambridge-based artists and writers for the Cantabrigia Award to make publications in 2021. The inaugural Cantabrigia Award will provide two writers or artists the resources to publish and distribute their work with a $1,000 stipend, resources like in-house editing, design, and printing, geared towards the production of a publication. Learn more.
Deadline: June 15, 2021
Artist In Residence Columbia Law School invites an artist to create at least one work that will be displayed at the school, as part of their artist-in-residency program. The selected artist will receive a grant of $15,000 and an allowance of up to $5,000 for art materials. Preference will be given to those who are in the early to middle stages of their careers. Learn more.
Deadline: June 15, 2021
Massachusetts Stories The Expand Massachusetts Stories initiative from Mass Humanities offers up to $20,000 for projects that collect, interpret and/or share narratives about the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with an emphasis on the voices and experiences that have gone unrecognized, or have been excluded from public conversation. Possible projects include documentary films/digital media projects, oral histories, exhibitions, and more. Learn more.
Letters of Inquiry Deadline: June 22, 2021
Of Note: Navigating Housing & Studio Spaces for Artists: Know Your Rights and Resources (Part 2), a free webinar on June 23, 2021. This workshop micro-series is led by Ngoc-Tran Vu, a 1.5-generation Vietnamese American interdisciplinary and transnational artist whose socially engaged work draws from her experience as a community organizer, educator, and healer. Additional insight provided by guest specialists in each field. Learn more and register.
Jazz Artists Residency Grant Applications are currently being accepted for a new residency grant for jazz artists; the definition of residency is quite broad, and awards range from $5k-$40k. Learn more.
Deadline: July 1, 2021
Call to Artists Arlington Community Education is accepting submissions of artwork for their cover art contest. Three winning artists will receive $250 and exposure to an audience of more than 50,000 in exchange for use of their artwork. All mediums are welcome. Open to artists high-school-aged and up. Learn more.
Deadline: July 1, 2021
Visual Artists The Artist’s Resource Trust (A.R.T.) Fund, a fund of Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, provides grants to support the creative work of mid-career visual artists. Grants are available in painting, sculpture, printmaking or mixed media to artists with financial need in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire and Rhode Island, as well as Columbia and northeast Dutchess counties in New York. Nonprofit organizations wishing to show, commission or purchase work by mature artists living in New England may also apply. Grants range up to $10,000. Learn more.
Deadline: August 15, 2021
Call to Artists Gallery 263 invites artists to submit work for “Objectivity” that engages and subverts the still life genre, breathing new life into an old (time-tested) tradition. Objectivity is juried by Josephine Halvorson. Open to residents of New England or those who have lived in New England within the last five years. Any 2D, 3D, and time-based work will be considered. Learn more.
Deadline: August 20, 2021
Of Note: Creative Capital’s Guide to Creating and Maintaining Email Newsletters for Artists
Image credit: Photograph of artist Alma Thomas’s painting tools. From the Smithsonian archives. Photo by Susana Raab/Anacostia Community Museum/Smithsonian Institution.
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