Opportunities for the Field | |
The JourneyWomxn Fund: Caregivers Program Retreats |
$500 micro-grants to attend retreats in safe, rural settings without cost. Retreats are open to mid and late-career BIPOC womxn (49 yrs. and older), Newark residents who are Caregivers of elder-family, special needs school-age children, or through employment, and bridging lives as artists.
Deadline: June 30, 2022
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American Rescue Plan Grants - Somerset County |
The Somerset County Cultural & Heritage Commission is calling for applications for six grants of $25,000 each for use in 2023, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts as part of the American Rescue Plan.
Request for Application Deadline: June 30, 2022
Deadline: July 12, 2022
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Call for Artists
Theme: Artful Healing
Deadline: July 6, 2022
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Grant Funding with Foundation Directory |
Did you know that you can research grant funding for free through the New Jersey State Library using the Foundation Directory database? In this webinar, explore recent changes to the Foundation Directory, discuss how to access the database, find funders for your organization, and more.
Date: July 7, 2022
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Risk Communication Art Grant Program |
Funding opportunity for the 2022 Community-Based Art Grant Program to bring attention to and start a conversation around climate impacts in our coastal areas through art installations.
Deadline: July 8, 2022
Learn More
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Cultural Equity Learning Community 2.0 |
CELC is an asynchronous, intersectional anti-racism course focused on cultural equity and creative justice.
Summer Cohort Deadline: July 13, 2022
Fall Cohort Deadline: August 31, 2022
Learn More
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New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship |
The 2023 NJ State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship guidelines and application are now available. Categories offered for the 2023 Fellowships are: Choreography, Crafts, Music Composition, Photography, Poetry, Playwriting/Screenwriting, and Sculpture.
Deadline: July 14, 2022
Learn More
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ArtPride New Jersey COVID-19 Impact Webinar |
Tune in for updated and valuable information regarding how New Jersey’s
arts community is facing the challenges related to recovery from the
COVID-19 pandemic.
Event Date: July 14, 2022
Learn More
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Google’s Image Equity Fellowship |
Support for early-career, image-based creators of color.
Deadline: July 17, 2022
Learn More
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Teaching Artists of the Mid-Atlantic (TAMA) Professional Learning Session |
Participants will hear how TAMA can provide networking and support for the region’s teaching artists, how TAMA advocates for teaching artists, and how TAMA strives to bring together artists of various backgrounds and experiences in concert with partner agencies, educational institutions, organizations, and communities.
Date: July 18, 2022
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American Rescue Plan Grants - Middlesex County |
The Arts Institute of Middlesex County is now accepting grant applications for the National Endowment for the Arts American Rescue Plan Grant.
Deadline: July 18, 2022
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BIPOC Surviving Predominantly White Institutions Series |
July 18: Naming Our Realities: Systems and Structures
July 25: Strategize and Disrupt: We Have a Right to Be Here
August 1: Beyond Survival to Self-care: Leaving Environments
August 8: Support in Action: Movement Towards Liberation
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New Jersey Arts & Culture Renewal Fund: Phase 4 |
The NJACRF was established in 2020 to ensure the survival, strength, and sustainability of New Jersey’s arts, cultural, and historical sector during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The Fund offers fast, flexible, equitable funding focused on nonprofit organizations whose primary mission is either arts and culture, arts education, or history, and whose budgets are $5 million or less.
Deadline: July 19, 2022
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Roxey Ballet Company’s River Dance Festival |
Call for Choreographers and Dance Companies
Deadline: July 25, 2022
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Prang's Art Teacher of the Year |
Nominations for Prang's Art Teacher of the Year can be made by anyone for an art teacher they feel has made a noteworthy impact on the lives of their students. Winners receive a year’s supply of art products for their art room!
Deadline: July 31, 2022
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Public Art Opportunity: Rowan University Wilson Hall Dance Program Expansion |
Call for Expressions of Interest
Deadline: August 8, 2022
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2022 Mid-Atlantic Teaching Artists Virtual Retreat |
The 2022 Mid-Atlantic Teaching Artists Virtual Retreat brings together arts education professionals from across the Mid-Atlantic region to build and strengthen a regional network of highly qualified teaching artists.
Event Dates: August Dates: August 9 and 10, 2022
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New Jersey Cultural Trust Grant |
The New Jersey Cultural Trust provides grants to support institutional and financial stabilization of arts, history, and humanities organizations in NJ.
Qualification Application Deadline: July 20, 2022
Grant Application Deadline: August 30, 2022
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Opportunities for Artists
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Public Art Opportunity: Rowan University Chamberlain Student Center |
Call for Expressions of Interest
Priority applicants: Individuals who self-identify as women and BIPOC artists, both of which are currently underrepresented in the University’s current public art collection.
Deadline: June 30, 2022
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The DTL program aims to advance dance education in public and private elementary schools, offering dance companies, ensembles, and teaching artists professional development, mentorship, and funding.
Application Deadline: June 30, 2022
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Call for Art for Hospital Exhibitions
Submission Deadline: June 30, 2022
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The JourneyWomxn Fund: Caregivers Program Retreats |
$500 micro-grants to attend retreats in safe, rural settings without cost. Retreats are open to mid and late-career BIPOC womxn (49 yrs. and older), Newark residents who are Caregivers of elder-family, special needs school-age children, or through employment, and bridging lives as artists.
Deadline: June 30, 2022
Learn More
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Newark International Film Festival
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Call for Entries
Deadline: July 1, 2022
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Applications are now open for exhibition booths and more.
Deadline: July 5, 2022
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Aferro Studios Residency Summer 2022 |
Dedicated studio spaces for artists and writers in the heart of Newark’s downtown district.
Deadline: July 6, 2022
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Call for Artists
Theme: Artful Healing
Deadline: July 6, 2022
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The Sack Business Alliance Summer Busking Program |
Call for Performers, Performance Artists, Musicians, and More
Deadline: July 8, 2022
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Call for Mosaic Art
Deadline: July 8, 2022
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Fall 2022 New Jersey Film Festival |
Call for Filmmakers
Super Late Deadline: July 10, 2022
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Public Art Opportunity: Burlington Mural Arts Project |
Call for Artists
Project will begin on July 11, 2022.
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Cultural Equity Learning Community 2.0 |
CELC is an asynchronous, intersectional anti-racism course focused on cultural equity and creative justice.
Summer Cohort Deadline: July 13, 2022
Fall Cohort Deadline: August 31, 2022
Learn More
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New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship |
The 2023 NJ State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship guidelines and application are now available. Categories offered for the 2023 Fellowships are: Choreography, Crafts, Music Composition, Photography, Poetry, Playwriting/Screenwriting, and Sculpture.
Deadline: July 14, 2022
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2022 Mercer County Senior Art Show |
Call for Artists
Deadline: July 15, 2022
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Call for Artists
Deadline: July 15, 2022
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Google’s Image Equity Fellowship |
Support for early-career, image-based creators of color.
Deadline: July 17, 2022
Learn More
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Teaching Artists of the Mid-Atlantic (TAMA) Professional Learning Session |
Participants will hear how TAMA can provide networking and support for the region’s teaching artists, how TAMA advocates for teaching artists, and how TAMA strives to bring together artists of various backgrounds and experiences in concert with partner agencies, educational institutions, organizations, and communities.
Date: July 18, 2022
Learn More
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BIPOC Surviving Predominantly White Institutions Series |
July 18: Naming Our Realities: Systems and Structures
July 25: Strategize and Disrupt: We Have a Right to Be Here
August 1: Beyond Survival to Self-care: Leaving Environments
August 8: Support in Action: Movement Towards Liberation
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Move: Dance in Art Exhibition |
Call for Objects
Deadline: July 22, 2022
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Inspired by George Inness: Life and Landscape |
Call for Artists
Deadline: July 24, 2022
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Public Art Opportunity: New York Red Bulls/Newark Arts Soccer Mural |
Request for Proposals
Deadline: July 25, 2022
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Roxey Ballet Company’s River Dance Festival |
Call for Choreographers and Dance Companies
Deadline: July 25, 2022
Learn More
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Rediscovering Community: An Artist Response |
The Angelica and Russ Berrie Center for Performing and Visual Arts seeks musicians, theater artists, dancers, filmmakers, and other performing artists
to present new works-in-progress based on how the arts are helping us to rediscover and come together as a community.
Deadline: July 28, 2022
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VH Award for Emerging Asian Media Artists |
The five finalists for this award by Hyundai Motor Group will each receive $25,000 production grants and participate in an online residency program with Eyebeam. The Grand Prix recipient will be awarded an additional $25,000.
Deadline: July 28, 2022
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Public Art Opportunities in the Central Avenue Special Improvement District of Jersey City |
Call for Proposals
Deadline: July 29, 2022
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Kindness: Unexpected, Unusual, Unfailing |
Call for Art
Deadline: July 30, 2022
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Call for Emerging Jewelry Designers
Deadline: August 1, 2022
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Entertainment Community Fund |
Budgeting Nuts and Bolts Workshops Designed for Creative Professionals
This workshop is two hours and is held monthly on the first Tuesday of each month (except July), and some Wednesdays.
Open to everyone in entertainment.
Next Workshop: August 2, 2022
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Public Art Opportunity: Rowan University Wilson Hall Dance Program Expansion |
Call for Expressions of Interest
Deadline: August 8, 2022
Learn More
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2022 Mid-Atlantic Teaching Artists Virtual Retreat |
The 2022 Mid-Atlantic Teaching Artists Virtual Retreat brings together arts education professionals from across the Mid-Atlantic region to build and strengthen a regional network of highly qualified teaching artists.
Event Dates: August Dates: August 9 and 10, 2022
Learn More
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Thomas Edison Film Festival |
Call for Filmmakers
Early Bird Deadline: August 15, 2022
Final Deadline: October 15, 2022
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Public Art Opportunities in Maryland: Frostburg State University and Towson University |
Call for RFQs
Deadline: August 15, 2022
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Call for New Jersey Composers and Performers to Apply for Commissions and Project Support |
Composers may be in any stage of their careers, and composers with non-standard career paths are particularly encouraged to apply.
Next Deadline: September 1, 2022
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Call for Artists
Deadline: September 2, 2022
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Nancy Ori Photography Workshops |
September 28 - October 8, 2022: England Lake District and Beyond
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Fellowships for Artists and Writers |
The American Antiquarian Society offers visiting fellowships for historical research by creative and performing artists, writers, filmmakers, journalists, and others whose goals are to produce imaginative, non-formulaic works dealing with pre-twentieth-century American history and culture.
Deadline: October 5, 2022
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6th Annual Heroin and Opioid Art Exhibition |
Call for Artists
Deadline: October 6, 2022
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Call for Women Figurative Realist Painters
10 finalists will be featured in a group exhibition. The Grand Prize Winner receives $50,000 and a solo exhibition, the first runner up gets $10,000.
Deadline: October 7, 2022
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26th Annual Sphinx Competition |
Call for Black and Latinx Classical String Players
Application Deadline: October 20, 2022
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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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The Hopper Prize is a grant-making institution and digital archiving platform offering a series of individual artist grants on a bi-annual basis.
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Eyebeam Center for the Future of Journalism |
Artists and artist-journalist teams can apply for grants to support topical work. Grants range from $500 - $5,000 per project.
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Parent Artist Advocacy League for Performing Arts and Media (PAAL)
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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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The Russell J. Efros Foundation Sprout Fund |
Direct Funds for Visual and Performing Artists
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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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Keep Jersey Arts Alive is a digital public value campaign that highlights the importance of the arts in New Jersey, and why the industry's survival is critical to the state's overall recovery. The Keep Jersey Arts Alive website offers videos and state- and county-wide impact data to illustrate how the arts affect every corner of the state. Check it out to learn what you can do to Keep Jersey Arts Alive!
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Opportunities for Arts Organizations
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Governor Murphy Signs Executive Order Enabling State Certification of Businesses as LGBTQ+-Owned |
Certification, which will be free of charge, would expand access to public and private contracting opportunities and enable businesses to proudly identify as LGBTQ+-owned in their advertising.
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Upgraded emergency preparedness and response tool for the arts and cultural heritage sectors. Organizations can request a free year of access.
Learn More
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Levitt AMP [Your City] Grant Awards |
The Levitt AMP [Your City] Grant Awards is a multi-year matching grant program dedicated to strengthening the social fabric of America through the power of free, live music.
Deadline: June 30, 2022
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The DTL program aims to advance dance education in public and private elementary schools, offering dance companies, ensembles, and teaching artists professional development, mentorship, and funding to host dance residencies with a school partner of their own selection.
Application Deadline: June 30, 2022
Learn More
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Applications are now open for exhibition booths and more.
Deadline: July 5, 2022
Learn More
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Grant Funding with Foundation Directory |
Did you know that you can research grant funding for free through the New Jersey State Library using the Foundation Directory database? In this webinar, explore recent changes to the Foundation Directory, discuss how to access the database, find funders for your organization, and more.
Date: July 7, 2022
Learn More
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Grants for Arts Projects is the NEA's principal grants program for organizations based in the United States. Through project-based funding, the program supports public engagement with, and access to, various forms of art across the nation, the creation of art, learning in the arts at all stages of life, and the integration of the arts into the fabric of community life.
Second Round Deadlines: July 7 and 19, 2022
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Risk Communication Art Grant Program |
Funding opportunity for the 2022 Community-Based Art Grant Program to bring attention to and start a conversation around climate impacts in our coastal areas through art installations.
Deadline: July 8, 2022
Learn More
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Cultural Equity Learning Community 2.0 |
CELC is an asynchronous, intersectional anti-racism course focused on cultural equity and creative justice.
Summer Cohort Deadline: July 13, 2022
Fall Cohort Deadline: August 31, 2022
Learn More
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ArtPride New Jersey COVID-19 Impact Webinar |
Tune in for updated and valuable information regarding how New Jersey’s
arts community is facing the challenges related to recovery from the
COVID-19 pandemic.
Event Date: July 14, 2022
Learn More
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Teaching Artists of the Mid-Atlantic (TAMA) Professional Learning Session |
Participants will hear how TAMA can provide networking and support for the region’s teaching artists, how TAMA advocates for teaching artists, and how TAMA strives to bring together artists of various backgrounds and experiences in concert with partner agencies, educational institutions, organizations, and communities.
Date: July 18, 2022
Learn More
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BIPOC Surviving Predominantly White Institutions Series |
July 18: Naming Our Realities: Systems and Structures
July 25: Strategize and Disrupt: We Have a Right to Be Here
August 1: Beyond Survival to Self-care: Leaving Environments
August 8: Support in Action: Movement Towards Liberation
Learn More
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New Jersey Cultural Trust Grant |
The New Jersey Cultural Trust provides grants to support institutional and financial stabilization of arts, history, and humanities organizations in NJ.
Qualification Application Deadline: July 20, 2022
Grant Application Deadline: August 30, 2022
Learn More
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2022 Summer Youth Camps Grants |
Summer Youth Camp Programs licensed through the Department of Children and Families, Office of Licensing, that have a Department of Health Certificate of Approval to operate a Summer Youth Camp during the summer 2022 season may apply for the Summer Youth Camp Grant. Priority will be given to facilities and programs that have not received any American Rescue Plan Stabilization Grant funding.
Deadline: August 5, 2022
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Free Opportunities for New Jersey Libraries! |
The New Jersey State Council on the Arts is seeking 25 libraries to host free arts classes for the older adult population in August 2022. These mini-residencies will be led by trained teaching artists and senior service professionals in courses such as: theatre, sculpture, dance, and the visual arts. Part of the Creative Aging Program, a partnership with National Assembly of State Arts Agencies and E. A. Michelson Philanthropy.
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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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SCORE Business Learning Center |
The SCORE Business Learning Center provides aspiring and existing small business owners in-depth online learning paths for deep dives into critical business topics.
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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Free Emergency Preparedness Webinars Focused on the Needs of Performing Arts Organizations |
Upcoming Webinars
The Art of Mass Gatherings
The Arts of Modified Gatherings
The Arts Organizations at a Crossroads Toolkit
Business Continuity for Performing Arts Organizations
Learn More
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Keep Jersey Arts Alive is a digital public value campaign that highlights the importance of the arts in New Jersey, and why the industry's survival is critical to the state's overall recovery. The Keep Jersey Arts Alive website offers videos and state- and county-wide impact data to illustrate how the arts affect every corner of the state. Check it out to learn what you can do to Keep Jersey Arts Alive!
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COVID-19 Recovery Resources
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Upgraded emergency preparedness and response tool for the arts and cultural heritage sectors. Organizations can request a free year of access.
Learn More
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American Rescue Plan Grants - Somerset County |
The Somerset County Cultural & Heritage Commission is calling for applications for six grants of $25,000 each for use in 2023, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts as part of the American Rescue Plan.
Request for Application Deadline: June 30, 2022
Deadline: July 12, 2022
Learn More
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ArtPride New Jersey COVID-19 Impact Webinar |
Tune in for updated and valuable information regarding how New Jersey’s
arts community is facing the challenges related to recovery from the
COVID-19 pandemic.
Event Date: July 14, 2022
Learn More
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Americans for the Arts Action Fund's
Office Hours with Nina
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Based on popular demand, Nina Ozlu Tunceli, Chief Counsel of Government and Public Affairs at AFTA and Executive Director of the AFTA Action Fund, is extending her Zoom office hours through 2022. She will continue to help the arts community to navigate the complex web of federal funding opportunities, regulations, and deadlines related to current and upcoming COVID-19 economic federal aid programs.
Next Dates: July 15 and July 29, 2022
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American Rescue Plan Grants - Middlesex County |
The Arts Institute of Middlesex County is now accepting grant applications for the National Endowment for the Arts ARP Grant.
Deadline: July 18, 2022
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New Jersey Arts & Culture Renewal Fund: Phase 4 |
The NJACRF was established in 2020 to ensure the survival, strength, and sustainability of New Jersey’s arts, cultural, and historical sector during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The Fund offers fast, flexible, equitable funding focused on nonprofit organizations whose primary mission is either arts and culture, arts education, or history, and whose budgets are $5 million or less.
Deadline: July 19, 2022
Learn More
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Rediscovering Community: An Artist Response |
The Angelica and Russ Berrie Center for Performing and Visual Arts seeks musicians, theater artists, dancers, filmmakers, and other performing artists
to present new works-in-progress based on how the arts are helping us to rediscover and come together as a community.
Deadline: July 28, 2022
Learn More
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Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants |
One-time grants for artists who have a dire financial emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cycle 14 will open July 5, with a deadline of August 2, for emergencies occurring December 1, 2021 and after.
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Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants |
Financial Relief for Artists Impacted by COVID-19
Eligible Categories: Dance and Performance Art/Theater, Music/Sound, Poetry/Literature, and Visual Arts/Moving Image
Application Deadline: December 12, 2022
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Free Emergency Preparedness Webinars Focused on the Needs of Performing Arts Organizations |
Upcoming Webinars
The Art of Mass Gatherings
The Arts of Modified Gatherings
The Arts Organizations at a Crossroads Toolkit
Business Continuity for Performing Arts Organizations
Learn More
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Main Street Lenders Grant |
This pilot product, funded with $15 million from the NJEDA's Main Street Recovery Program, provides grants to eligible micro business lenders, which the lenders can use to create new loan micro business loan products or supplement existing micro business loan products. Lenders can also qualify for additional grant funding to provide technical assistance to micro businesses, to better prepare these businesses to qualify for loan products.
Learn More
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Leveler: Peer to Peer Wealth Distribution |
Leveler is a peer-to-peer wealth distribution platform that facilitates donations from people who have job security or funds to distribute to those people whose work status has been impacted by COVID-19.
Learn More
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New Jersey's COVID-19 Information Hub |
Call (General COVID-19 Questions): 211
Call (Medical COVID-19 Questions): 1-800-962-1253
Call (Vaccine Appointment Support): 1-855-568-0545
Text NJCOVID to 898-211 to receive alerts.
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Keep Jersey Arts Alive is a digital public value campaign that highlights the importance of the arts in New Jersey, and why the industry's survival is critical to the state's overall recovery. The Keep Jersey Arts Alive website offers videos and state- and county-wide impact data to illustrate how the arts affect every corner of the state. Check it out to learn what you can do to Keep Jersey Arts Alive!
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The New Jersey State Council on the Arts, created in 1966, is a division of the NJ Department of State. 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 receives direct appropriations from the State of New Jersey through a dedicated, renewable Hotel/Motel Occupancy fee, as well as competitive grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. To learn more about the Council, please visit www.artscouncil.nj.gov.
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