Opportunities for the Field | |
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July 25, 2024
We compile opportunities for artists and arts organizations that are available in
New Jersey, or benefit those working in the arts in New Jersey. You'll find professional development workshops, grant announcements, calls for artists, resources, and more. Check out all three categories: Featured Opportunities, Opportunities for Artists, and Opportunities for Organizations.
While we do not share Job Opportunities, we do recommend the following resources for those looking for work in the arts field: ArtPride NJ Job Bank, NJ Theatre Alliance, Dance NJ, NJ Motion Picture & Television Commission, and Arts Admin Jobs.
Sign up to receive Opportunities via email, read the Submission Guidelines or
submit an opportunity for consideration.
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Join us for our Annual Meeting! | |
The New Jersey State Council on the Arts will convene its 2024 Annual Meeting on Tuesday, July 30th at 10 AM. The meeting will include committee reports and voting on grants for Fiscal Year 2025.
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Activation, Revitalization, and Transformation (A.R.T.) Program - Phase 2 | |
Phase II of the A.R.T. program, is aimed at mitigating the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic by supporting the development and recovery of New Jersey’s commercial corridors and invigorating community focused arts and cultural organizations. The program will provide grants to projects located in thirty-one commercial corridor municipalities.
Next Information Session: July 30, 2024
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Rauschenberg Dancer Emergency Grants | |
This program provides one-time grants of up to $3,000 to professional dancers in need, who are in dire financial emergency. You must demonstrate an urgent and critical need for emergency support in your application, and live in the U.S., the District of Columbia, a Tribal Nation, or a U.S. Territory.
Deadline: July 30, 2024
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Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants | |
This program provides one-time grants of up to $5,000 for recent unexpected medical, dental, and mental health emergencies to artists in financial need who are creating in the visual arts, film/video/electronic/digital arts, and choreography. Only generative artists are eligible—artists creating their own, independent work, with recent and ongoing opportunities for the public to experience that work.
Information Session: July 30, 2024
Deadline: August 13, 2024
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CavanKerry Press Now Accepting Submissions for Poetry Collections, Nonfiction Essay Collections, and Memoir | |
Selected titles will be published by CavanKerry Press and receive national distribution. Queer, trans, and BIPOC writers are encouraged to apply. CavanKerry is also especially engaged with work from people living with physical and/or mental illness and disability.
Deadline: July 31, 2024
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Creating Change 2024: Disrupt, Engage, Imagine | |
Call for proposals for breakout sessions focused on: well-being, organizational transformation, implementing equitable policies and practices, equitable artistic processes, interrupting microaggressions, disrupting oppressive systems, authentic community collaborations, and political/civic engagement in the arts. Presenters receive complimentary summit registration and a $150 honorarium.
Deadline: July 31, 2024
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Do you have a personal story about flooding in Burlington County? Submit writing, recordings, or pictures to New Jersey artist Jin Jung's Rancocas Project, an art event happening this October at Perkins Center for the Arts.
Deadline: July 31, 2024
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Creative Space Accelerator 2024 | |
Call for Newark-based Organizations
Applicants may apply for technical assistance for a specific Creative Space Project that they plan to undertake. Selected applicants will be invited to participate in a six-month curriculum of group trainings and one-on-one consultation led by Artspace, a Minneapolis-based organization that provides guidance and support for creative space projects around the country.
Deadline: August 1, 2024
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Guidelines and Application Instructions for NEA Our Town Grant Program Available Now! | |
Our Town is the NEA’s creative placemaking grants program. Through project-based funding, the program supports activities that integrate arts, culture, and design into local efforts that strengthen communities over the long term.
Part 1 Deadline: August 1, 2024
Part 2 Deadline: August 15, 2024
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New Jersey Devils Artist Open Call: Hockey Is For Everyone | |
Call for Local Artists
In collaboration with the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and Newark Arts, the New Jersey Devils are having an open call for local artists to submit their portfolios to be considered for the opportunity to design game elements for one of the five Hockey Is For Everyone games for the 2024-25 season. These games include Latin & Hispanic Heritage, Pride, Black History Celebration, API Heritage, and Women's Empowerment.
Deadline: August 2, 2024
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Call for Playwrights and Dramaturgs
Deadline: August 15, 2024
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Dance/USA Fellowships to Artists | |
This program supports dance and movement based artists from across the U.S. and its territories who work at the intersection of social and embodied practices. Now in its third iteration, the DFA program remains one of the few regranting programs available to independent U.S. dance artists with an unrestricted financial award. Fellowship awards of $31,000 will be given to at least 25 individual artists to be used at their own discretion.
Deadline: August 15, 2024
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New Jersey Arts and Culture Renewal Fund | |
The New Jersey Arts and Culture Renewal Fund provides financial support to stabilize and build resilience among New Jersey-based smaller nonprofit arts and culture organizations. Phase 9 funding is specifically for organizations whose primary mission is Arts or Arts Education.
Deadline: August 21, 2024
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The Art of Craftsmanship Exhibition | |
The theme for this exhibition is derived from the age old debate of art versus craft. All crafts media are welcome to apply.
Deadline: August 23, 2024
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Exhibition Opportunity: The Art of New Jersey 2025 at Newark Liberty International Airport’s Terminal A | |
Call for New Jersey Artists
Deadline: August 26, 2024
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The Asbury Park Film Challenge | |
Call for Filmmakers
Challenge opens August 5, 2024!
Deadline: August 26, 2024
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Cape May County Arts and History Grant Program | |
Call for Organizations, Units of Government, and Educational Agencies
Deadline: September 6, 2024
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Princeton Arts Fellowship | |
Princeton Arts Fellowships are awarded to artists whose achievements have been recognized as demonstrating extraordinary promise in any area of artistic practice and teaching. Applicants should be early career visual artists, filmmakers, composers, conductors, musicians, choreographers, poets, novelists, playwrights, designers, directors and performance artists who would find it beneficial to spend time teaching and working in an artistically vibrant university community.
Deadline: September 10, 2024
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Potential Hodder Fellows are composers, choreographers, performance artists, visual artists, writers, translators, or other kinds of artists or humanists. A $92,000 stipend is provided for this 10-month appointment as a Visiting Fellow. Fellows are eligible for benefits during the length of the fellowship and have access to research funds.
Deadline: September 10, 2024
Learn More
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Request for Proposals: Arts and Community Health | |
Call for Arts Organizations
The Horizon Foundation for New Jersey is seeking proposals for innovative and effective programming at the intersection of arts and health.
Deadline: September 13, 2024
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1-on-1 Consultation for Immigrant Artists | |
NYFA 1-on-1 Consultations for Immigrant Artists offers individualized career-centered conversations for creatives of all disciplines. During these free 40-minute online consultation sessions with arts industry experts, you can seek advice on specific topics or general resources and opportunities to help you navigate building your arts career in the U.S.
Learn More
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Become an RevolutionNJ Partner Organization! | |
New Jersey's rich arts community has a unique opportunity to engage their audiences with a once-in-a-generation initiative. RevolutionNJ is New Jersey's official commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, happening in 2026.
Watch a recorded informational workshop here.
Already in the know? Become a Proud Partner today by submitting an application here.
If you have any questions about this initiative or the application, please reach out to Marc Lorenc: marc.lorenc@sos.nj.gov
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Handwork: Celebrating American Craft 2026 | |
This national Semiquincentennial initiative will showcase the importance of the handmade, both throughout our history and in contemporary life. Handwork 2026 is a yearlong collaboration among organizations, educators, and makers to celebrate the diversity of the crafts that define America, bringing compelling stories and underrepresented art and artists into the spotlight.
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Arts on Prescription: A Field Guide for US Communities | |
From the Massachusetts Cultural Council – A Guide for Communities to Develop Programs that Integrate Arts, Culture, and Nature Resources into Local Health and Social Care Systems
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This newly launched dPlan|ArtsReady tool guides you through the steps of creating elements of your performing arts organization’s emergency plan. Organizations can request a free year of access.
Learn More
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Opportunities for Artists | |
Rauschenberg Dancer Emergency Grants | |
This program provides one-time grants of up to $3,000 to professional dancers in need, who are in dire financial emergency. You must demonstrate an urgent and critical need for emergency support in your application, and live in the U.S., the District of Columbia, a Tribal Nation, or a U.S. Territory.
Deadline: July 30, 2024
Learn More
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Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants | |
This program provides one-time grants of up to $5,000 for recent unexpected medical, dental, and mental health emergencies to artists in financial need who are creating in the visual arts, film/video/electronic/digital arts, and choreography. Only generative artists are eligible—artists creating their own, independent work, with recent and ongoing opportunities for the public to experience that work.
Information Session: July 30, 2024
Deadline: August 13, 2024
Learn More
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CavanKerry Press Now Accepting Submissions for Poetry Collections, Nonfiction Essay Collections, and Memoir | |
Selected titles will be published by CavanKerry Press and receive national distribution. Queer, trans, and BIPOC writers are encouraged to apply. CavanKerry is also especially engaged with work from people living with physical and/or mental illness and disability.
Deadline: July 31, 2024
Learn More
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Do you have a personal story about flooding in Burlington County? Submit writing, recordings, or pictures to New Jersey artist Jin Jung's Rancocas Project, an art event happening this October at Perkins Center for the Arts.
Deadline: July 31, 2024
Learn More
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Exhibition Opportunity: Peace/Conflict | |
Call for Artists
Deadline: August 1, 2024
Learn More
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New Jersey Devils Artist Open Call: Hockey Is For Everyone | |
Call for Local Artists
In collaboration with the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and Newark Arts, the New Jersey Devils are having an open call for local artists to submit their portfolios to be considered for the opportunity to design game elements for one of the five Hockey Is For Everyone games for the 2024-25 season. These games include Latin & Hispanic Heritage, Pride, Black History Celebration, API Heritage, and Women's Empowerment.
Deadline: August 2, 2024
Learn More
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New Jersey Film Festival (Spring 2025) | |
Call for Entries
Deadline: August 10, 2024
Learn More
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Call for Playwrights and Dramaturgs
Deadline: August 15, 2024
Learn More
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Dance/USA Fellowships to Artists | |
This program supports dance and movement based artists from across the U.S. and its territories who work at the intersection of social and embodied practices. Now in its third iteration, the DFA program remains one of the few regranting programs available to independent U.S. dance artists with an unrestricted financial award. Fellowship awards of $31,000 will be given to at least 25 individual artists to be used at their own discretion.
Deadline: August 15, 2024
Learn More
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Exhibition Opportunity: New Beginnings | |
Call for Artists
Deadline: August 23, 2024
Learn More
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The Art of Craftsmanship Exhibition | |
The theme for this exhibition is derived from the age old debate of art versus craft. All crafts media are welcome to apply.
Deadline: August 23, 2024
Learn More
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Exhibition Opportunity: The Art of New Jersey 2025 at Newark Liberty International Airport’s Terminal A | |
Call for New Jersey Artists
Deadline: August 26, 2024
Learn More
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The Asbury Park Film Challenge | |
Call for Filmmakers
Challenge opens August 5, 2024!
Deadline: August 26, 2024
Learn More
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Princeton Arts Fellowship | |
Princeton Arts Fellowships are awarded to artists whose achievements have been recognized as demonstrating extraordinary promise in any area of artistic practice and teaching. Applicants should be early career visual artists, filmmakers, composers, conductors, musicians, choreographers, poets, novelists, playwrights, designers, directors and performance artists who would find it beneficial to spend time teaching and working in an artistically vibrant university community.
Deadline: September 10, 2024
Learn More
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Potential Hodder Fellows are composers, choreographers, performance artists, visual artists, writers, translators, or other kinds of artists or humanists. A $92,000 stipend is provided for this 10-month appointment as a Visiting Fellow. Fellows are eligible for benefits during the length of the fellowship and have access to research funds.
Deadline: September 10, 2024
Learn More
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CraftForms 2024: Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Fine Craft | |
Call for Art
Deadline: September 10, 2024
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The 2024 Charles Sills Memorial Group Art Exhibit: Terra Incognita (An Unknown Land) | |
Call for Entries
Deadline: September 16, 2024
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Artist Residency at Mercer County Community College | |
Call for Artists
Deadline: September 16, 2024
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The Figure: Portraiture and Narrative | |
Call for Artists
Deadline: September 16, 2024
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Cultural Center Artist in Residency Program | |
Call for Writers, Visual Artists, Musicians, and Dancers
Deadlines: October 1, 2024
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1-on-1 Consultation for Immigrant Artists | |
NYFA 1-on-1 Consultations for Immigrant Artists offers individualized career-centered conversations for creatives of all disciplines. During these free 40-minute online consultation sessions with arts industry experts, you can seek advice on specific topics or general resources and opportunities to help you navigate building your arts career in the U.S.
Learn More
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Adobe Creative Residency Community Fund | |
Financial Support for Creators Directly Impacted by the 2022 Invasion of Ukraine
Applications Accepted and Evaluated on a Rolling Basis
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Reel Change is a five-year grants and mentorship program for composers of diverse backgrounds who have been marginalized in film composition.
Rolling Deadline
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Parent Artist Advocacy League for Performing Arts and Media (PAAL) |
PAAL is a national network and solutions-generator for caregivers in the arts and media, offering childcare grants, emergency grants, and other resources.
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Awesome Foundation Micro-grants | |
Call for individuals, groups, and organizations to apply for $1,000 micro-grants for an “awesome” project.
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Call for Visual Art Exhibitors | |
Art groups or collective artists whether local, national, or international are encouraged to apply for exhibitions happening 2025-2030.
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Kemmerer Library Harding Township Art Gallery Wall | |
Opportunity for Artists to Exhibit Work for One Month
Rolling Deadline
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Guide to Finances for Artists | |
Establish solid financial practices with this free eGuide download and worksheets.
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Applications are open to join Eventbrite's Creator Collective, a global community of entrepreneurs and organizers passionate about live experiences. Collective members get exclusive access to our virtual meet-ups with experts, opportunities to speak at Eventbrite events, complimentary product upgrades, and access to Eventbrite's 24/7 online networking platform.
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Catalogue Publication and Online Exhibit | |
Up to six Best in Show artists will have their work published with a critical review in Aedra Fine Arts' Artist Feature Catalogue. These artists will have two works of art on display and links to their website and social media. Artists keep 100% sales of their work.
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A monthly series for artists to share their work, ideas, and coffee.
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Opportunities for Arts Organizations | |
Activation, Revitalization, and Transformation (A.R.T.) Program - Phase 2 | |
Phase II of the A.R.T. program, is aimed at mitigating the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic by supporting the development and recovery of New Jersey’s commercial corridors and invigorating community focused arts and cultural organizations. The program will provide grants to projects located in thirty-one commercial corridor municipalities.
Next Information Session: July 30, 2024
Learn More
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Creative Space Accelerator 2024 | |
Call for Newark-based Organizations
Applicants may apply for technical assistance for a specific Creative Space Project that they plan to undertake. Selected applicants will be invited to participate in a six-month curriculum of group trainings and one-on-one consultation led by Artspace, a Minneapolis-based organization that provides guidance and support for creative space projects around the country.
Deadline: August 1, 2024
Learn More
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Guidelines and Application Instructions for NEA Our Town Grant Program Available Now! | |
Our Town is the NEA’s creative placemaking grants program. Through project-based funding, the program supports activities that integrate arts, culture, and design into local efforts that strengthen communities over the long term.
Part 1 Deadline: August 1, 2024
Part 2 Deadline: August 15, 2024
Learn More
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New Jersey Arts and Culture Renewal Fund | |
The New Jersey Arts and Culture Renewal Fund provides financial support to stabilize and build resilience among New Jersey-based smaller nonprofit arts and culture organizations. Phase 9 funding is specifically for organizations whose primary mission is Arts or Arts Education.
Deadline: August 21, 2024
Learn More
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Cape May County Arts and History Grant Program | |
Call for Organizations, Units of Government, and Educational Agencies
Deadline: September 6, 2024
Learn More
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Request for Proposals: Arts and Community Health | |
Call for Arts Organizations
The Horizon Foundation for New Jersey is seeking proposals for innovative and effective programming at the intersection of arts and health.
Deadline: September 13, 2024
Learn More
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Learning and Engagement Funding from Art Bridges | |
The purpose of an Art Bridges Learning & Engagement Award is to support art museum transformation and the engagement of new and diverse audiences through innovative programming.
Learn More
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Awesome Foundation Micro-grants | |
Call for individuals, groups, and organizations to apply for $1,000 micro-grants for an “awesome” project.
Learn More
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Tools, Resources, and Training for Creating and Sustaining a Culture of Equity, Inclusion, and Justice through the Arts
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This newly launched dPlan|ArtsReady tool guides you through the steps of creating elements of your performing arts organization’s emergency plan. Organizations can request a free year of access.
Learn More
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The New Jersey State Council on the Arts, created in 1966, is a division of the NJ Department of State and a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts. The Council was established to encourage and foster public interest in the arts; enlarge public and private resources devoted to the arts; promote freedom of expression in the arts; and facilitate the inclusion of art in every public building in New Jersey. The Council believes the arts are central to every element we value most in a modern society including: human understanding; cultural and civic pride; strong communities; excellent schools; lifelong learning; creative expression; and economic opportunity. To learn more about the Council, please visit www.artscouncil.nj.gov. | | | | |
