Opportunities for the Field

Opportunities for the Field

December 29, 2022

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, Covid recovery resources and more.

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Featured Opportunities

Save the Date!

The New Jersey State Council on the Arts, in partnership with Forecast Public Art, is pleased to invite artists, organizations, local and regional arts councils, arts and entertainment districts, arts administrators, and units of government in New Jersey to participate in Making It Public - a free, 5-week virtual workshop series offered every Thursday in March 2023.

Learn more about workshops for artists interested in exploring and expanding their public art making practice here.

Learn more about workshops for administrators interested in strengthening local capacity to support, create, and promote public art here.

Heritage Fellowship Application Now Open!

To honor and preserve our State's highly diverse cultural heritage, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts will award New Jersey Heritage Fellowships to master folk and traditional artists.

Technical Assistance Webinar: January 3, 2023

Notice of Intent to Nominate Deadline: January 5, 2023

Register for Our Virtual Public Listening Sessions!

We want to hear from you! The New Jersey State Council on the Arts is in the midst of a formal strategic planning process, in which every area of our work is being evaluated. Please join us for one of four Virtual Public Listening Sessions: January 18, 19, 24, 25, 2023.

Access Thursdays 2022-2023

Access Thursdays are an opportunity for colleagues to get together for peer-to-peer learning around specific issues related to cultural access. Individuals with knowledge and experience in a specific area will be invited to join in the discussion, and representatives from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and New Jersey Theatre Alliance’s Cultural Access Network Project committee will also participate in the discussions.

January 5: Customer Service: Creating a Welcoming Environment

February 2: Invisible/Non-apparent Disabilities

March 2: Creating a Sensory Experience for Those Who are Blind/Low Vision

April 6: Accessibility in Outdoor Environments

May 4: Prioritizing Accessibility in Small Arts Organizations

Performing Arts Discovery Program

The PAD program promotes US performing artists to international programmers, festival directors, and venue managers.

Deadline: January 6, 2023

Literature Fellowships for Translation Projects

Through fellowships to published translators, the National Endowment for the Arts supports projects for the translation of specific works of prose, poetry, or drama from other languages into English.

Deadline: January 12, 2023

Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants

One-time grants for artists practicing in the visual arts, choreography, and film/video/electronic/digital arts who have a dire financial emergency due

to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Deadline: January 13, 2023

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Gallery Aferro Sustainable Arts Fellowship Newark

Call for Parent Artists or Writers of Color

Deadline: January 14, 2023

Folger Shakespeare Library - Artistic Research Fellowships

Artists whose work would benefit from significant primary research can apply for either a virtual fellowship or a short-term residential fellowship, both of which come with a $4,000 monthly stipend.

Deadline: January 15, 2023

Creative Forces Community Engagement Grants

Support for Community-based Arts Programming for Military-Connected Individuals Nationwide

Deadline: January 19, 2023

Visiting Artist of Color Residency

Through this program, Art Students League of Denver hosts a visiting artist who identifies as Black, Indigenous, and/or a person of color for a six-to-nine month-long residency offering access to dedicated studio space at ASLD, and the opportunity to lead workshops, lectures, and community engagement programs, culminates with a solo exhibition of work created throughout the residency.

Deadline: January 20, 2023

Healing Voices: Caregiving Stories on Stage

Call for New Jersey Professional and Family Caregivers to Submit Prose, Poetry, and Theatrical Pieces

Deadline: January 31, 2023

Families First Discovery Pass Program

With a new season kicking off at venues across the state, it's a great time to grow your audience. Joining the Families First Discovery Pass program helps ensure that New Jersey's arts and history experiences are accessible to everyone.

Registration is rolling, but materials and websites are updated according to a series of deadlines. For participation, sign up by January 31 or May 1, 2023.

The Excellence in Theatre Education Award 2023

The Tony Awards® and Carnegie Mellon University are looking for the dedicated teachers who create the next generation of theatre artists. Submissions are open.

Deadline: January 31, 2023

Advancing Indigenous Performance: Native Launchpad Application 2023

Call for U.S.-based Indigenous Performing Artists

Native Launchpad helps create opportunity and sustainability for individual Native artists through financial support, professional development opportunities, strategic promotions, and networking.

Deadline: February 1, 2023

Exhibition: Natural Elements

Call for Artists to Submit Two-dimensional Work About Nature to Accompany Music Performances at Multiple Venues in Sewell, NJ.

Deadline: February 3, 2023

Grants for Arts Projects

National Endowment for the Arts’ largest grants program for organizations, providing comprehensive and expansive funding opportunities for communities.

Grants.gov Deadline: February 9, 2023

Applicant Portal Deadline: February 21, 2023

2023 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award

$1,000 award recognizing a poetry collection translated from any language into English and published in the previous calendar year.

Deadline: February 15, 2023

ArtsCONNECT

ArtsCONNECT supports touring projects collaboratively developed by presenters working together in the mid-Atlantic region. The tours include performances as well as complementary engagement activities designed to create greater understanding or connections between artists, audiences, and communities.

Projects in Development Listing Deadline: February 16, 2023

Application Deadline: March 2, 2023

Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowships

$50,000 awards given to honor poets of literary merit and enable them to undertake meaningful, impactful, and innovative projects that engage their fellow residents, including youth, with poetry, helping to address issues important to their communities, as well as create new work.

Deadline: February 17, 2023

New Jersey Symphony Edward T. Cone Composition Institute

Call for Scores

Deadline: February 24, 2023

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: March 1, 2023

Challenge America

Support for small organizations for projects in all artistic disciplines that extend the reach of the arts to groups/communities with rich and dynamic artistic and cultural contributions to share that are underserved.

Guidelines Webinar: March 1, 2023

Grants.gov Deadline: April 27, 2023

Applicant Portal Deadline: May 16, 2023

Applications now open for the Artists in Education (AIE) Residency Grant Program!

An AIE grant places professional teaching artists in your classroom for a long-term residency - customized for any grade level or arts discipline - and provides professional development for your administration and staff, a culminating event to engage the school and its community, and a reflection day for students to reflect on their achievements.

Deadline: March 3, 2023

Virtual Assistance Workshops and Office Hours schedule here.

Apply to be a 2023 Music Teacher of Excellence!

The Music Teachers of Excellence award supports educators who demonstrate exemplary teaching and student learning, and are committed to making a positive impact on their school and community while raising awareness for the broader cause of music education.

Deadline: March 3, 2023

Creative Writing Fellowships: Prose

The National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowships program offers $25,000 grants in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) and poetry to published creative writers that enable the recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement.

Deadline: March 8, 2023

Mid Atlantic Tours

Mid Atlantic Tours brings the best of the performing arts to communities across the mid-Atlantic region. Presenters select from a curated roster of artists that changes annually but maintains a programmatic commitment to a diversity of performance genres, regional artist representation, and engaging with communities underserved by the arts.

Deadline: March 23, 2023

The Emerging Playwrights Fund

Support for the creation of original dramatic work. Audible is dedicated to commissioning, developing, and producing work that reflects the diversity of our members and our world. To accomplish this, Audible is committed to granting at least 50% of emerging playwright commissions to artists of color and women.

Submissions will re-open in January 2023.

Ocean County Cultural and Heritage Commission Arts Grants

The New Jersey State Council on the Arts provides support to the arts through its Local Arts Program. Matching grants are available to fund and promote the arts at the community level. Ocean County's block grant is primarily re-granted to local groups and projects and is administered by the Commission staff. The Commission makes guidelines and applications available to the public for the State Arts Council's grant programs to organizations.

Chorus: Folk Alliance International’s Free Online Community

A new virtual space for the folk music community.

dPlan|ArtsReady

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.

Opportunities for Artists

Save the Date!

The New Jersey State Council on the Arts, in partnership with Forecast Public Art, is pleased to invite artists, organizations, local and regional arts councils, arts and entertainment districts, arts administrators, and units of government in New Jersey to participate in Making It Public - a free, 5-week virtual workshop series offered every Thursday in March 2023.

Learn more about workshops for artists interested in exploring and expanding their public art making practice here.

Learn more about workshops for administrators interested in strengthening local capacity to support, create, and promote public art here.

Succeed2gether’s Montclair Literary Festival

Call for New, Published Books of Adult Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and More

Deadline: December 31, 2022

Juried Art Exhibition: Nails in the Wall Gallery

Call for Art on the Theme of “Emerging”

Deadline: January 1, 2023

Morven Moves: Call for New Jersey Choreographers

Morven Museum & Garden, located in the heart of Princeton, NJ is seeking a diverse range of New Jersey-based choreographers and companies to present dance works in an inaugural informal outdoor performance in the museum's garden. In line with Morven’s mission of preserving and celebrating authentic stories, Morven Moves will do so through movement. BIPOC, AAPI, and LGBTQIA+ artists are strongly encouraged to apply.

Deadline: January 2, 2023

Heritage Fellowship Application Now Open!

To honor and preserve our State's highly diverse cultural heritage, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts will award New Jersey Heritage Fellowships to master folk and traditional artists.

Technical Assistance Webinar: January 3, 2023

Notice of Intent to Nominate Deadline: January 5, 2023

Access Thursdays 2022-2023

Access Thursdays are an opportunity for colleagues to get together for peer-to-peer learning around specific issues related to cultural access. Individuals with knowledge and experience in a specific area will be invited to join in the discussion, and representatives from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and New Jersey Theatre Alliance’s Cultural Access Network Project committee will also participate in the discussions.

January 5: Customer Service: Creating a Welcoming Environment

February 2: Invisible/Non-apparent Disabilities

March 2: Creating a Sensory Experience for Those Who are Blind/Low Vision

April 6: Accessibility in Outdoor Environments

May 4: Prioritizing Accessibility in Small Arts Organizations

Performing Arts Discovery Program

The PAD program promotes US performing artists to international programmers, festival directors, and venue managers.

Deadline: January 6, 2023

Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency 2023-24

Open to Artists and Writers

Deadline: January 10, 2023

New Jersey International Film Festival Summer 2023

Call for Entries

Deadline: January 11, 2023

Super Late Deadline: March 12, 2023

Literature Fellowships for Translation Projects

Through fellowships to published translators, the National Endowment for the Arts supports projects for the translation of specific works of prose, poetry, or drama from other languages into English.

Deadline: January 12, 2023

Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants

One-time grants for artists practicing in the visual arts, choreography, and film/video/electronic/digital arts who have a dire financial emergency due

to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Deadline: January 13, 2023

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Gallery Aferro Sustainable Arts Fellowship Newark

Call for Parent Artists or Writers of Color

Deadline: January 14, 2023

Sculpture Space Residency

Two month residency for sculptors in Utica, New York.

Deadline: January 15, 2023

Register for Our Virtual Public Listening Sessions!

We want to hear from you! The New Jersey State Council on the Arts is in the midst of a formal strategic planning process, in which every area of our work is being evaluated. Please join us for one of four Virtual Public Listening Sessions: January 18, 19, 24, 25, 2023.

Visiting Artist of Color Residency

Through this program, Art Students League of Denver hosts a visiting artist who identifies as Black, Indigenous, and/or a person of color for a six-to-nine month-long residency offering access to dedicated studio space at ASLD, and the opportunity to lead workshops, lectures, and community engagement programs, culminates with a solo exhibition of work created throughout the residency.

Deadline: January 20, 2023

Public Art Opportunity: Charlotte Area Transit System

The City of Charlotte, NC is continuing to expand transportation options in the region, and the Charlotte Area Transit System is seeking a professional artist or artist team to incorporate art into the South End Station.

Deadline: January 20, 2023

Exhibition: As Above | So Below

Call for Artwork Related to the Cosmos

Deadline: January 22, 2023

American Music Abroad

In cooperation with the U.S. Department of State, American Voices arranges a series of in-person and virtual exchange programs that include concerts, live-streamed concerts, collaborative performances with local traditional musicians, lecture demonstrations, workshops, and jam sessions. The programs focus on younger and underserved audiences, with little or no access to American music, in over 140 countries around the world.

All American musical genres are welcome to apply.

Deadline: January 24, 2023

Pinelands Juried Photographic Exhibition

Call for Photography

Deadline: January 30, 2023

Healing Voices: Caregiving Stories on Stage

Call for New Jersey Professional and Family Caregivers to Submit Prose, Poetry, and Theatrical Pieces

Deadline: January 31, 2023

Juried Exhibition: Claybash 2023

Call for All Forms of Ceramic Art

Deadline: February 1, 2023

Advancing Indigenous Performance: Native Launchpad Application 2023

Call for U.S.-based Indigenous Performing Artists

Native Launchpad helps create opportunity and sustainability for individual Native artists through financial support, professional development opportunities, strategic promotions, and networking.

Deadline: February 1, 2023

Exhibition: Natural Elements

Call for Artists to Submit Two-dimensional Work About Nature to Accompany Music Performances at Multiple Venues in Sewell, NJ.

Deadline: February 3, 2023

Exhibition: Quilts for Today and Tomorrow

Call for Quilters

Digital submission Deadline: February 8, 2023

Artwork Drop Off: February 11 , 2023

New Jersey Symphony Edward T. Cone Composition Institute

Call for Scores

Deadline: February 24, 2023

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: March 1, 2023

Jazz Road Tour Grants

Call for Jazz Artists

Jazz Road Tours supports small, three- to six-site tours at an array of venue types, often in rural communities and other areas traditionally underserved by the genre.

Deadlines: March 1 and June 1, 2023

Applications now open for the Artists in Education (AIE) Residency Grant Program!

An AIE grant places professional teaching artists in your classroom for a long-term residency - customized for any grade level or arts discipline - and provides professional development for your administration and staff, a culminating event to engage the school and its community, and a reflection day for students to reflect on their achievements.

Deadline: March 3, 2023

Virtual Assistance Workshops and Office Hours schedule here.

Creative Writing Fellowships: Prose

The National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowships program offers $25,000 grants in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) and poetry to published creative writers that enable the recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement.

Deadline: March 8, 2023

USArtists International

Call for Individual Performers and Ensembles of All Performing Arts Practices and Disciplines

USArtists International supports in-person and virtual performances by American artists at engagements at international festivals and global presenting arts marketplaces outside of the United States.

Next Deadline: March 29, 2023 (For projects taking place between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024.)

Awesome Foundation Micro-grants

Call for individuals, groups, and organizations to apply for $1,000 micro-grants for an “awesome” project.

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.

The Hopper Prize

The Hopper Prize is a grant-making institution and digital archiving platform offering a series of individual artist grants on a bi-annual basis.

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.

The Russell J. Efros Foundation Sprout Fund

Direct Funds for Visual and Performing Artists

U.S. General Services Administration Art in Architecture Program

Call for Artists to Join the National Artist Registry for Consideration for an Art in Architecture Commission to Create a Site-specific Artwork at a Federal Building

Opportunities for Arts Organizations

Save the Date!

The New Jersey State Council on the Arts, in partnership with Forecast Public Art, is pleased to invite artists, organizations, local and regional arts councils, arts and entertainment districts, arts administrators, and units of government in New Jersey to participate in Making It Public - a free, 5-week virtual workshop series offered every Thursday in March 2023.

Learn more about workshops for artists interested in exploring and expanding their public art making practice here.

Learn more about workshops for administrators interested in strengthening local capacity to support, create, and promote public art here.

Heritage Fellowship Application Now Open!

To honor and preserve our State's highly diverse cultural heritage, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts will award New Jersey Heritage Fellowships to master folk and traditional artists.

Technical Assistance Webinar: January 3, 2023

Notice of Intent to Nominate Deadline: January 5, 2023

Access Thursdays 2022-2023

Access Thursdays are an opportunity for colleagues to get together for peer-to-peer learning around specific issues related to cultural access. Individuals with knowledge and experience in a specific area will be invited to join in the discussion, and representatives from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and New Jersey Theatre Alliance’s Cultural Access Network Project committee will also participate in the discussions.

January 5: Customer Service: Creating a Welcoming Environment

February 2: Invisible/Non-apparent Disabilities

March 2: Creating a Sensory Experience for Those Who are Blind/Low Vision

April 6: Accessibility in Outdoor Environments

May 4: Prioritizing Accessibility in Small Arts Organizations

Register for Our Virtual Public Listening Sessions!

We want to hear from you! The New Jersey State Council on the Arts is in the midst of a formal strategic planning process, in which every area of our work is being evaluated. Please join us for one of four Virtual Public Listening Sessions: January 18, 19, 24, 25, 2023.

Free Emergency Preparedness Webinars Focused on the Needs of Performing Arts Organizations

The Performing Arts Readiness project offers free webinars, on-site training, and presentations at professional conferences on various topics related to emergency preparedness.

January 18, 2023: Risk Assessment for Performing Arts Organizations

January 19: Introduction to Emergency Preparedness for Performing Arts Organizations

January 24: Getting Started with the dPlan|ArtsReady Tool

Creative Forces Community Engagement Grants

Support for Community-based Arts Programming for Military-Connected Individuals Nationwide

Deadline: January 19, 2023

NEA Big Read

Arts Midwest is now accepting applications for the 2023-24 National Endowment for the Arts Big Read Program – a community engagement opportunity with grants of up to $20,000 for reading programs.

Application Deadline: January 25, 2023

Families First Discovery Pass Program

With a new season kicking off at venues across the state, it's a great time to grow your audience. Joining the Families First Discovery Pass program helps ensure that New Jersey's arts and history experiences are accessible to everyone.

Registration is rolling, but materials and websites are updated according to a series of deadlines. For participation, sign up by January 31 or May 1, 2023.

Apply to the Museum Assessment Program

Discover how getting your museum assessed can improve operations and create new roadmaps for the future, with five organizational assessment types available to choose from.

Deadline: February 1, 2023

Grants for Arts Projects

National Endowment for the Arts’ largest grants program for organizations, providing comprehensive and expansive funding opportunities for communities.

Grants.gov Deadline: February 9, 2023

Applicant Portal Deadline: February 21, 2023

ArtsCONNECT

ArtsCONNECT supports touring projects collaboratively developed by presenters working together in the mid-Atlantic region. The tours include performances as well as complementary engagement activities designed to create greater understanding or connections between artists, audiences, and communities.

Projects in Development Listing Deadline: February 16, 2023

Application Deadline: March 2, 2023

Challenge America

Support for small organizations for projects in all artistic disciplines that extend the reach of the arts to groups/communities with rich and dynamic artistic and cultural contributions to share that are underserved.

Guidelines Webinar: March 1, 2023

Grants.gov Deadline: April 27, 2023

Applicant Portal Deadline: May 16, 2023

Applications now open for the Artists in Education (AIE) Residency Grant Program!

An AIE grant places professional teaching artists in your classroom for a long-term residency - customized for any grade level or arts discipline - and provides professional development for your administration and staff, a culminating event to engage the school and its community, and a reflection day for students to reflect on their achievements.

Deadline: March 3, 2023

Virtual Assistance Workshops and Office Hours schedule here.

Mid Atlantic Tours

Mid Atlantic Tours brings the best of the performing arts to communities across the mid-Atlantic region. Presenters select from a curated roster of artists that changes annually but maintains a programmatic commitment to a diversity of performance genres, regional artist representation, and engaging with communities underserved by the arts.

Deadline: March 23, 2023

Ocean County Cultural and Heritage Commission Arts Grants

The New Jersey State Council on the Arts provides support to the arts through its Local Arts Program. Matching grants are available to fund and promote the arts at the community level. Ocean County's block grant is primarily re-granted to local groups and projects and is administered by the Commission staff. The Commission makes guidelines and applications available to the public for the State Arts Council's grant programs to organizations.

Art Equity

Tools, Resources, and Training for Creating and Sustaining a Culture of Equity, Inclusion, and Justice through the Arts

dPlan|ArtsReady

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.

Awesome Foundation Micro-grants

Call for individuals, groups, and organizations to apply for $1,000 micro-grants for an “awesome” project.

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.

COVID-19 Recovery Resources

Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants

One-time grants for artists practicing in the visual arts, choreography, and film/video/electronic/digital arts who have a dire financial emergency due

to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Deadline: January 13, 2023

Rauschenberg Foundation.jpg

Free Emergency Preparedness Webinars Focused on the Needs of Performing Arts Organizations

The Performing Arts Readiness project offers free webinars, on-site training, and presentations at professional conferences on various topics related to emergency preparedness.

January 18, 2023: Risk Assessment for Performing Arts Organizations

January 19: Introduction to Emergency Preparedness for Performing Arts Organizations

January 24: Getting Started with the dPlan|ArtsReady Tool

dPlan|ArtsReady

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.

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.

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.

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 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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