Opportunities for the Field | | |
August 28, 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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| | ArtsPay New Jersey 2025 Surveys are Now Open! | |
ArtsPay New Jersey is a compensation survey and pay equity project for the NJ arts community.
The Individual Arts Worker Survey is completed by all people who identify as arts administrators or artists in NJ, including full-time, part-time, and contract/freelance workers. The survey includes self-reported compensation data as well as free text responses related to their perceptions and opinions about arts compensation.
The Organizational Survey is completed by a designated person on behalf of an arts organization. They give compensation information for all job titles at the organization. All non-profit organizations in NJ for which the arts are the primary focus of their mission should complete this survey.
Please complete your survey by September 19, 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.
Dates: October 14 - 16, 2025
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Call for Artists, Artist Collectives, Nonprofit Organizations, and Businesses
Registration Deadline: September 5, 2025
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| | | Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants | |
The Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants 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. NEW: Previous recipients of a Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants may apply again, after five years have elapsed from their first grant award date.
Deadline: September 9, 2025
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| | | 2025 Arts & Community Health Request for Proposals | |
The Horizon Foundation for New Jersey is looking for new and innovative programming that focuses on the powerful role the arts can play in improving health. Arts organizations are invited to submit a grant application that will advance the following areas of focus:
- Directly encourages healthy behaviors - physical and/or mental health
- Promotes greater dialogue on health - specifically the priority areas of obesity, behavioral health, or social determinants of health
- Educates, connects to, or raises awareness of available health services
- Makes health information more clear, memorable, and relevant
Deadline: September 9, 2025
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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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| | | 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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| | | 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 | | Calling All Artists from the Greater Trenton Community! | |
120 East State is calling for uplifting songs from residents of Trenton and Greater Trenton - Ewing, Hamilton, and Lawrence Townships.
Deadline: September 1, 2025
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| | | Open Call for Proposals for Teaching Artists Professional Development Workshops | |
The Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation is seeking proposals for workshops that offer teaching artists practical, tangible teaching tools (including lesson plans, activities, frameworks, and resources) to bring into the creative classroom. Compensation is $550 for 90-120 minute workshops taught either in-person in Philadelphia or virtually over Zoom.
Deadline: September 1, 2025
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| | | Roam. Create. Send. | A Dual-Site Exhibition Celebrating the Words of Walt Whitman | |
Call for Postcard Art
New Jersey artists are encouraged to submit original artwork for a juried exhibition of 4x6-inch postcard art inspired by American poet Walt Whitman. Selected art will be exhibited at Trinity Community Arts Center in Northport, NY, and the Walt Whitman Birthplace Museum on Long Island.
Deadline: September 1, 2025
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| | | AI for Artists: An Update from the Copyright Office | |
Join Miriam Lord, Associate Register of Copyrights and Director of Public Information and Education at the U.S. Copyright Office, to learn about AI, copyright registration, and available resources. This event is presented by Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, in collaboration with CultureWorks.
Event Date: September 3, 2025
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| | | Fall 2025 Stockton Performing Arts Center Pop Up | |
South Jersey Cultural Alliance, in collaboration with the Stockton PAC, invites local artists to apply for the opportunity to showcase and sell their work at the upcoming Stockton PAC Pop-Up series.
Deadline: September 5, 2025
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Call for Artists, Artist Collectives, Nonprofit Organizations, and Businesses
Registration Deadline: September 5, 2025
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| | | So You Want to Work in the Film Industry? | |
Join Newark Arts for a powerful evening of truth-telling, strategy, and connection for aspiring and working creatives in the film industry. Whether you're behind the camera, in the writer's room, or dreaming of the director’s chair, this intimate panel and networking event will unpack the real-world challenges and possibilities of building a film career from the ground up. Hear directly from actors, producers, writers, and industry insiders who have carved their own paths. From navigating barriers to building lasting relationships in the industry, this evening is about opening doors and passing the mic.
Event Date: September 6, 2025
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| | | Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants | |
The Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants 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. NEW: Previous recipients of a Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants may apply again, after five years have elapsed from their first grant award date.
Deadline: September 9, 2025
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| | | Cover Art Contest: Aspen Institute’s Leadership Seminars | |
The Aspen Institute’s Leadership Seminars department is proud to announce the 2025 Cover Art Contest, “The Canvas of Leadership.” Individuals aged 18 and older, residing in the U.S., are invited to creatively explore and visually represent the powerful, human-centered themes that define the seminars. This contest celebrates the power of visual art to provoke thought, deepen inquiry, and ground us in shared humanity. Whether through painting, photography, mixed media, or graphic design, this cover art contest welcomes works that address one or more of the following themes: Leading forward, Humanistic leadership, Fortify and undeceive ourselves, Intentional dialogue.
Deadline: September 9, 2025, 11:59 PM, Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time
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| | | Princeton Arts Fellowship | |
Princeton Arts Fellowships will be 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, poets, novelists, playwrights, designers, directors and performance artists—this list is not meant to be exhaustive—who would find it beneficial to spend two years teaching and working in an artistically vibrant university community.
Deadline: September 9, 2025
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The Hodder Fellowship will be given to artists and writers of exceptional promise to pursue independent projects at Princeton University during the academic year. Potential Hodder Fellows are composers, choreographers, performance artists, visual artists, writers, translators, or other kinds of artists or humanists who have “much more than ordinary intellectual and literary gifts”; they are selected more “for promise than for performance.” Given the strength of the applicant pool, most successful Fellows have published a first book or have similar achievements in their own fields; the Hodder is designed to provide Fellows with the “studious leisure” to undertake significant new work.
Deadline: September 9, 2025
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| | | Webinar: Making Life Better Through Creative Placemaking | |
Learn how to leverage the power of arts and artists to improve lives and enhance communities in this free webinar. Explore how artists can be leaders in their community’s revitalization.
Date: September 10, 2025
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Call for submissions in the following mediums: basketry, ceramics, fiber, furniture, glass, jewelry, leather, metal, mixed media, paper, wearable art,
and wood.
Deadline: September 10, 2025
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| | | Exhibition: Not Just Set in Stone | |
Call for Sculpture
Deadline: September 11, 2025
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A 12-week program for playwrights who are looking for dramaturgical support on a full-length play in progress, accountability, and an artistic community.
Registration Deadline: September 15, 2025
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| | | Film Fundamentals: A Tactical Approach to Screenwriting, Complete with Script Generation, Text Analysis, and Production Skills | |
A workshop series designed for playwrights looking to cross over into screenwriting.
Registration Deadline: September 15, 2025
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| | | Newark Artist Accelerator | 2025/2026 Project-Based Grant | |
The 2025 Newark Artist Accelerator is a project grant for Newark-based, multidisciplinary visual artists. This year’s fund is made possible by the generous support of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Regional Regranting Program. Project-based grants will be awarded in the amounts of $2,500, $5,000, and $7,500. Proposed projects must be artist-led and can include collaborative ventures, pop-up exhibitions, events, and interventions of an ephemeral nature that are radically accessible to public audiences.
Deadline: September 15, 2025
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| | | From Minutes to Movies Shortfest | |
From Minutes to Movies is a short film festival championing filmmakers and creators, where every short is just the beginning. The festival offers a platform, guidance, and opportunity to filmmakers and creators looking to cross over into longer formats. This year's edition of the From Minutes to Movies ShortFest invites filmmakers and creators to share bold, personal interpretations of the American Dream.
Deadline: September 16, 2025
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| | | Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center 2026 Creative Glass Fellowship | |
The Creative Glass Fellowship Program at WheatonArts awards fellowships to professional and emerging glass artists, both from the US and internationally. Artists are encouraged to use their fellowships to develop and refine their work while experimenting with both traditional and innovative glassmaking processes. Applicants must be proficient in the medium to be considered.
Deadline: September 19, 2025
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| | | Exhibition: Home Is Where The Heart Is | |
Call for Art
Deadline: September 19, 2025
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| | | Solo Exhibition Opportunity: Drawing Rooms Solo Project Space #3 | |
Drawing Rooms is looking for cohesive body of work or installation, on any theme or concept, of any size, in any media.
Deadline: September 19, 2025
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Call for Artists
Deadline: September 20, 2025
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| | | The Stamped Stories Project | |
Call for Entries
Monmouth Arts invites artists from New Jersey to submit applications for Stamped Stories, a series of postcards marking the Centennial Celebration of Red Bank’s Count Basie Center for the Arts, whose historic theater opened in 1926. New Jersey-based artists will be commissioned to create artwork representing each decade of the theater’s existence, from the 1920s to present day. The postcards will be printed and available monthly, as well as in a commemorative set.
Deadline: September 22, 2025
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| | | Public Art Opportunity: Riverview Wellness Village | |
Creative Philadelphia and the Capital Program Office have announced a competition to commission site-specific, permanent, public artworks to be installed at the Riverview Wellness Village in the Holmesburg section of Northeast Philadelphia. Funded through the city’s Percent for Art program, this public art commission is part of Mayor Parker’s new Wellness Ecosystem Initiative, which addresses a critical gap in Philadelphia’s wellness ecosystem by supporting individuals recovering from substance use disorder.
This permanent artwork will provide an opportunity for an artist or a team of artists to create multiple complimentary outdoor sculptures
Deadline: September 22, 2025
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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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| | | The 2025 Charles Sills Memorial Group Art Exhibit: Seen and Unseen | |
Call for Monmouth County Artists
Deadline: September 30, 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.
Dates: October 14 - 16, 2025
To apply for a low- or no-fee registration, made possible by support from the NJ State Council on the Arts and the Pabst Steinmetz Foundation, click here.
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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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| | | 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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| | | Curatorial Review Catalogue Publication | |
Artists who are selected for publication are featured with detailed curatorial review essays in the catalogue, written by the curator. Artist Feature Catalogue articles are published on the Titan Contemporary Publishing website, Substack page, and in linen wrap hardcover book editions.
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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!
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| | | Opportunities for Arts Organizations | | 2025 Arts & Community Health Request for Proposals | |
The Horizon Foundation for New Jersey is looking for new and innovative programming that focuses on the powerful role the arts can play in improving health. Arts organizations are invited to submit a grant application that will advance the following areas of focus:
- Directly encourages healthy behaviors - physical and/or mental health
- Promotes greater dialogue on health - specifically the priority areas of obesity, behavioral health, or social determinants of health
- Educates, connects to, or raises awareness of available health services
- Makes health information more clear, memorable, and relevant
Deadline: September 9, 2025
Learn More
| | | 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.
Dates: October 14 - 16, 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. | | | | |
