Opportunities for the Field | | |
September 25, 2025
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.
Please note: Some opportunities may require fees to submit or participate. Be sure to read calls thoroughly to decide if it is a good fit for you.
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| | Public Art Opportunity: Painted Mural at the Newark Liberty Airport Station Access | |
Call for Expressions of Interest
Artists must be a New Jersey resident living and/or based out of Newark, NJ. Artists from the local community of Newark’s South Ward are highly encouraged to submit artwork.
Deadline: September 28, 2025
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| | | Public Art Opportunity: Digital Design for Glass Tiles at the Newark Liberty Airport Station Access | |
Call for Artists
Artists must be a New Jersey resident living and/or based out of Newark, NJ. Artists from the local community of Newark’s South Ward are highly encouraged to submit artwork.
Deadline: September 28, 2025
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| | | New Jersey Theatre Alliance Career Accelerator | |
This program will support three New Jersey-based emerging theatre professionals from underrepresented communities.
Deadline: October 1, 2025
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| | | Join the Teaching Artist Community of Practice! | |
This quarterly, virtual series of meetings will serve as a platform for sharing experiences, discussing new opportunities, and connecting with each other.
Next Meeting: October 1, 2025.
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| | | Creating Healthy Communities: Arts in Public Health Convening | |
Presented by the University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Creating Healthy Communities will bring together more than 500 people from across the United States who are thinking, working, and innovating at the intersections of arts and culture, public health and community development.
Event Dates: October 14 - 16, 2025
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| | | Creating Change 2025: Meeting the Moment and Building Beyond | |
The Creating Change Summit is an annual in-person gathering of the New Jersey arts and culture community focused on learning, inspiration, and action as we move together toward a more just, equitable, accessible, and anti-racist arts sector.
Event Date: October 29, 2025
Registration Deadline: October 20, 2025
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| | | Virtual Workshop: Every NJ Artist Insured | |
Calling all New Jersey artists! Registration is now open for the first session of this year's The Business of Being an Artist Virtual Workshop Series: Every NJ Artist Insured. Led by Jim Bracchitta, Managing Director of Health Services for the Entertainment Community Fund, this webinar will give you clear, step-by-step guidance on what all of your insurance options are, and how to get the most affordable coverage to fit your needs in this changing landscape.
Event Date: October 30, 2025
Registration Deadline: October 23, 2025
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| | | 2025 New Jersey Creative Communities Conference: The Art of Community Well-being | |
A gathering of leaders, doers, thinkers, and artists throughout New Jersey exploring innovative ways to make places better for everyone through art and creative placemaking.
Event Date: November 6, 2025
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The mission of the Trenton Arts Fellowship, cosponsored by Mercer County Community College and Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts, is to support local Trenton artists by providing studio space on the MCCC Trenton campus, resources, programming opportunities, mentorship, and research funds, in order to assist the artists in creating impactful work that would engage with the Trenton community.
Deadline: November 14, 2025
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| | | Call for South Jersey Photographers | |
South Jersey Cultural Alliance is seeking photographers of all experience levels to capture the energy and spirit of arts and culture events across South Jersey during Fiscal Year 2026.
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Used by more than 175,000 artists and over 800 arts organizations, CaFÉ is the leading application management system for art calls. CaFÉ strives to make art opportunities available to all by offering arts organizations an affordable submission platform and artists an easy way to apply. Artist registration is FREE!
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| | | Opportunities for Artists | | Public Art Opportunity: Painted Mural at the Newark Liberty Airport Station Access | |
Call for Expressions of Interest
Artists must be a New Jersey resident living and/or based out of Newark, NJ. Artists from the local community of Newark’s South Ward are highly encouraged to submit artwork.
Deadline: September 28, 2025
Learn More
| | | Public Art Opportunity: Digital Design for Glass Tiles at the Newark Liberty Airport Station Access | |
Call for Artists
Artists must be a New Jersey resident living and/or based out of Newark, NJ. Artists from the local community of Newark’s South Ward are highly encouraged to submit artwork.
Deadline: September 28, 2025
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Call for HIV+ and LGBTQ+ Art, Photography, Games, Interviews, Creative Writing, and More
Deadline: September 30, 2025
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| | | 10th Annual National Dance Week Event: A Celebration of Dance | |
Call for NJ Dance Companies, Studios, and Dance Groups
An electrifying showcase of various dance styles that celebrate the energy and spirit of the NJ arts community. This year, there is a specific need for Latin Dance, Ballet, Irish Step Dance, Ballroom, Stepping, Cheer Dance, Liturgical, Lyrical, Graham, Dunham, Krumping, and East/West Coast Swing Dance.
Event Date: October 10, 2025
Deadline: September 30, 2025
If you are a dancer, studio, performance group, you are welcome to submit a request to perform to María Daniel at idanceministry@gmail.com.
| | | The 2025 Charles Sills Memorial Group Art Exhibit: Seen and Unseen | |
Call for Monmouth County Artists
Deadline: September 30, 2025
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Now accepting applications for artist residencies for visual artists and writers.
Deadline: September 30, 2025
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| | | New Jersey Theatre Alliance Career Accelerator | |
This program will support three New Jersey-based emerging theatre professionals from underrepresented communities.
Deadline: October 1, 2025
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| | | Join the Teaching Artist Community of Practice! | |
This quarterly, virtual series of meetings will serve as a platform for sharing experiences, discussing new opportunities, and connecting with each other.
Next Meeting: October 1, 2025.
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The Rbhu Gives Back Grant offers $12,000 worth of free engineering services for any size artwork, which can include analysis, construction drawings, and permit documents, depending on the project's needs.
Application Deadline: October 1, 2025.
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| | | Murphy Writing of Stockton University 32nd Annual Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway | |
A supportive, participant-focused writers’ conference at Seaview Hotel, Galloway, NJ.
Event Date: January 16 - 19, 2026
Scholarship Application Deadline: October 1, 2025
Registration Deadline: January 12, 2026
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| | | Exhibition: A Ghostly Art Affair | |
Call for Artists
Deadline: October 1, 2025
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| | | Monmouth Museum Members Showcase | |
Call for Art
Deadline: October 5, 2025
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| | | Creating Healthy Communities: Arts in Public Health Convening | |
Presented by the University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine and New Jersey Performing Arts Center, the Creating Healthy Communities Convening will bring together more than 500 people from across the United States who are thinking, working, and innovating at the intersections of arts and culture, public health and community development.
Event Dates: October 14 - 16, 2025
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| | | Public Art Opportunity: Westbrook Music Building, University of Nebraska | |
Call for Existing 2D Artworks
Deadline: October 14, 2025
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| | | Creating Change 2025: Meeting the Moment and Building Beyond | |
The Creating Change Summit is an annual in-person gathering of the New Jersey arts and culture community focused on learning, inspiration, and action as we move together toward a more just, equitable, accessible, and anti-racist arts sector.
Event Date: October 29, 2025
Registration Deadline: October 20, 2025
Learn More
| | | Virtual Workshop: Every NJ Artist Insured | |
Calling all New Jersey artists! Registration is now open for the first session of this year's The Business of Being an Artist Virtual Workshop Series: Every NJ Artist Insured. Led by Jim Bracchitta, Managing Director of Health Services for the Entertainment Community Fund, this webinar will give you clear, step-by-step guidance on what all of your insurance options are, and how to get the most affordable coverage to fit your needs in this changing landscape.
Event Date: October 30, 2025
Registration Deadline: October 23, 2025
Learn More
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The mission of the Trenton Arts Fellowship, cosponsored by Mercer County Community College and Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts, is to support local Trenton artists by providing studio space on the MCCC Trenton campus, resources, programming opportunities, mentorship, and research funds, in order to assist the artists in creating impactful work that would engage with the Trenton community.
Deadline: November 14, 2025
Learn More
| | | DC Gallery and Studio Holiday Shop | |
Open Call for Artists and Vendors
Artist/Crafter Drop Off: November 30, 2025, 11 AM – 2 PM
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| | | 2026 Folk Alliance International Conference | |
Event Dates: January 21 - 25, 2026
Location: New Orleans, LA
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| | | Call for South Jersey Photographers | |
South Jersey Cultural Alliance is seeking photographers of all experience levels to capture the energy and spirit of arts and culture events across South Jersey during Fiscal Year 2026.
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| | | Art Reviews Published in Hardcover Book Editions | |
Selected artists are featured with detailed curatorial review essays in the catalogue, written by the curator. All forms of visual art are eligible. The publisher especially encourages alternative/experimental artists to apply.
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| | | Creative Capital Artist Lab | |
Creative Capital Artist Lab is an online professional development curriculum designed to help artists working at any career stage, and in any discipline, build thriving practices. courses are created by art professionals, industry experts, and fellow artists who share vital concepts, skills, and tools to grow artists’ careers. Courses are delivered through Zoom lectures and discussions, long-form videos, and text-based learning formats. Artist Lab includes exercises, tips for best practices, and case studies that can be taken at participants’ own pace. Courses and videos are available in English and Spanish, with ASL interpretation.
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| | | The Entertainment Community Fund: Social Service Groups and Workshops | |
The Entertainment Community Fund understands that a life in the arts has its own unique set of challenges. Their free, online groups and workshops - facilitated by social workers - offer a safe and confidential setting where performing arts and entertainment professionals can share and learn, as well as provide and receive support.
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| | | Survey: Developing Equitable Artists’ Contracts | |
Yancey Consulting wants to hear from artists about which contract clauses have the most negative impact on current and future earnings, ownership rights, and protections.
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| | | Dance New Jersey’s Resource Directory | |
This online resource is designated to help connect, support, and elevate the vibrant dance artists across New Jersey. Whether you are a professional dancer, dance student, instructor, choreographer, or dance enthusiast, our unique directory will give you quick access to explore new services, opportunities, and partnerships within and beyond the state.
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| | | Calling all New Jersey-based LGBTQ+ artists! | |
Garden State Equality has several paid opportunities for artists across all mediums coming up in 2025! Join their database to be the first to know when they go live.
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| | | CERF+ Emergency Relief Grant | |
Support available for artists working in craft or materials-based folk/traditional disciplines who have experienced a recent, unforeseen, career-threatening emergency.
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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.
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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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Used by more than 175,000 artists and over 800 arts organizations, CaFÉ is the leading application management system for art calls. CaFÉ strives to make art opportunities available to all by offering arts organizations an affordable submission platform and artists an easy way to apply. Artist registration is FREE!
Learn More
| | | Opportunities for Arts Organizations | | Creating Healthy Communities: Arts in Public Health Convening | |
Presented by the University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine and New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Creating Healthy Communities will bring together more than 500 people from across the United States who are thinking, working, and innovating at the intersections of arts and culture, public health and community development.
Event Dates: October 14 - 16, 2025
Learn More
| | | Creating Change 2025: Meeting the Moment and Building Beyond | |
The Creating Change Summit is an annual in-person gathering of the New Jersey arts and culture community focused on learning, inspiration, and action as we move together toward a more just, equitable, accessible, and anti-racist arts sector.
Event Date: October 29, 2025
Registration Deadline: October 20, 2025
Learn More
| | | 2025 New Jersey Nonprofits Conference | |
Registration opens October 6, 2025.
Event Date: December 3, 2025
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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
| | | NJ Human Services Opens Fourth Round of Grant Funding to Create Inclusive, Healthy Communities | |
NJ Human Services announces that non-profits and county or municipal government agencies can now apply for the next round of funding in the Inclusive Healthy Communities Grant Program to help communities across NJ support the health and well-being of individuals with disabilities where they live, work, learn and play.
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| | | Arts Reach: The Association of Arts Management, Marketing and Development Professionals | |
Arts Reach supports leading arts professionals the Arts Reach website, conferences, magazine, webinars, and e-letters. The strategies and techniques presented via Arts Reach focus on successful revenue-generating techniques for arts practitioners and leaders.
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| | | Performing Arts Readiness | |
Free webinars on various topics related to emergency preparedness for performing arts organizations.
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| | | The New Jersey Department of the Treasury’s Grants Management Office is here to help you! | |
The goal of the Grants Management Office is to make grant opportunities and resources easily accessible for municipalities, counties, nonprofit organizations, and other interested stakeholders. With a mission to increase the amount of federal grant dollars New Jersey receives, GMO works to help build the capacity of its partners to successfully apply for and manage grant programs.
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| | | Succession Planning for Cultural Institutions | | | 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.
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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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Tools, Resources, and Training for Creating and Sustaining a Culture of Equity, Inclusion, and Justice through the Arts
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The 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.
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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. | | | | |
