ARTIST RESOURCES | dunamis-boston

The Resource Roundup is a compilation of opportunities, jobs, grants, workshops, and more for artists in the Greater Boston Area. If you would like to submit something to this list, email emalecki@dunamisboston.org with a description and web link for your listing.

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NEFA Jobs and Opportunities Board
- Check out this helpful list of upcoming jobs and opportunities!
Mosesian Center for the Arts
- Marketing & Sales Manager: Full-time | $68,000–$72,000 annually. This role leads MCA’s marketing, audience development, communications, and sales efforts, helping us grow audiences, strengthen visibility, and connect our artistic programming with the community. Learn more and apply here!
- Company Administrator: Part-time, 26 hours/week | $24–$28/hour. This role supports the day-to-day administrative, financial, HR, and operational systems that keep MCA running smoothly and provides essential organizational support across departments. Learn more and apply here!

Upcoming Artist Grants and Opportunities
- Check out this helpful list of upcoming grants. List put together by Mass Cultural Council.
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants
- Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. To meet artists’ last-minute needs in a timely manner, FCA’s Emergency Grants panel meets monthly to review requests.Each month FCA receives an average of 95 Emergency Grant applications and makes approximately 12-18 grants. Grants range in amount from $500 to $3,000, and the average grant is now $1,900.
- Applications are rolling. Learn more and apply here!
Emergency Relief Grants
- CERF+ offers $3,000 Emergency Relief Grants to craft artists who experienced a recent and substantially disruptive emergency or disaster.
- Deadline is rolling. Learn more here!
The Awesome Foundation
- The Awesome Foundation is a global community advancing the interest of awesome in the universe, $1000 at a time.
- Deadline is rolling, learn more and apply here!
2026 Artadia Boston Awards
- The Artadia Awards provide financial support, exposure and recognition to artists. Three unrestricted $15,000 grants will be awarded, allowing artists to use the funds in any way they choose.
- Deadline to apply is September 15. Learn more and apply here!
New England Dance Fund
- Through the New England Dance Fund, NEFA will award grants between $1,500 and $2,500 directly to choreographers who identify and articulate an important opportunity that will significantly impact aspects of their dance making or advance their role within the regional New England dance landscape.
- Deadline to apply is September 28. Learn more and apply here!
Local Cultural Council Program
- The largest grassroots cultural funding network in the nation, the Local Cultural Council (LCC) Program enriches the cultural life of all cities and towns in Massachusetts. Led by municipally appointed volunteers, LCCs award $6.6 million every year, supporting 7,400 cultural programs that include everything from field trips to lectures, festivals, and dance performances. Contact your LCC to apply for a grant.
- Deadline to apply is October 15. Learn more and apply here!
Grants for Creative Individuals
- Grants for Creative Individuals are unrestricted grants of $5,000 to Massachusetts artists, culture bearers, and creative practitioners to equitably advance creative expression throughout our diverse communities.
- Deadline to apply is October 27. Learn more and apply here!

Publicize Your Event!
- Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism hosts a statewide calendar and invites cultural organizations to contribute their events. Browse events and/or submit your own here!
Wanna Go See Event Database
- 556 shows at 160 venues across Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont this week. Updated every Monday. Check it out here!
Mass MoCA Ongoing Programming
- Looking for a trip out of the city and a chance to experience some incredible art and live performances? Check out Mass MoCA's upcoming programming here!
Concerts in the Common
- Taking place on Wednesdays, each month at the Brighton Farmers Market. This summer's lineup includes two acts every night and features big brass bands, folk, soca dancers, Latin jazz and acapella!
- Performances take place between June 17-October 21. Learn more here!
Uncommon Corner Weekly Free Performances
- - Check out the full schedule of Uncommon Corner performances, which feature weekly programming for audiences of all ages!
  - Check out the full schedule here
If you can see me, hold me close by Megha Nair
- If you can see me, hold me close is a body of work focused on redefining divinity and reclaiming identity through a self-built spiritual realm. The pieces conceptualize a visual, personal mythology where reality is blurred with imagined and protective dreamscapes, evoking ancient artifacts from an ancestral plane while giving physical form to surreal worlds. The exhibition grew from trauma and resilience to create a safe space for reimagining ideas of sacrality. Made as a ritualistic practice, the works act as tools for the reclamation of self and the transformation of narratives.
- Exhibit will be up at the Mutlicultural Arts Center from August 31-October 9. Learn more here!
Tríptico
- This seasoned and stirring acoustic trio, hailing from Argentina, Puerto Rico, and Costa Rica, bring their long careers and rich, diverse musical backgrounds to this afternoon of gorgeous covers and originals. Performing contemporary Latin jazz standards, and originals by Emmy- and Grammy-winning film and television composer Ragazzi, the trio skillfully and beautifully navigates a moving range of emotions, moods, and styles.
- Event is September 12. Learn more and get tickets here!
Richard Peña Trio
- Guitarist, composer, and educator Richard Peña is a rising force in Latin jazz, blending Afro-Caribbean traditions with modern jazz innovation. Named Youth Jazz Ambassador by the Humacao Friends of Jazz Association, Peña has performed internationally as a bandleader and alongside Grammy-winning artists such as Horacio “El Negro” Hernández, Dafnis Prieto, Henry Cole, Richie Flores, Charlie Sepúlveda, Carlos Vives, and Victor Manuelle.
- Event is September 12. Learn more and get tickets here!
Abilities Dance Boston presents: Restaging of Firebird Part 2
- This ballet has been written and choreographed by Founder/Executive and Artistic DIrector Ellice Patterson with a completely original score by Music & Operations Director Andrew Choe. The core theme includes the central question "Once the Firebird is liberated from the Prince, what if the Firebird saves herself and not everyone else?" From there comes an avalanche of questions across universes. This performance includes animation by Will Machado, aerial silks by Ellice Patterson, and more.
- Event is September 18. Learn more and get tickets here!
Queer Joy Festival
- The Queer Joy Festival is an annual pride event in Ipswich, MA catered to a variety of ages (including families with little ones) that centers queer joy and community. Bringing in queer artists from Boston and beyond, the event will feature dance classes, healing modalities, and art vendors. See festival programming below:
  - Saturday, September 19
    - Queer Joy Market - 10am-3:30pm
    - Open Craft @ Salt - 12:30pm-3:30pm
    - Musical Theatre Jazz - 11:30am-12:15pm
    - Queer Joy Bungee - 12:30-1:15pm
    - “My shirts all shrunk!” Headlining Performance by Eliza Malecki- 4pm
  - Sunday, September 20
    - Family Dance: Pride Edition - 9am-9:30am
    - Yoga for Queers & Friends with Lyons Heart Yoga - 10-10:45am
    - Drawn to Life with Jeremy Frias - 11am-12pm
    - Queer Joy Performance - 2-3pm
    - Community Sound Healing with Kristen Miller - 4-5pm
  - Learn more and get tickets here!
Rent's Due!: A Fundraiser Showcase
- Local cult classic and urban legend XAVIERA. (musician, artist, writer, curator) is collaborating with long-time supporter Cultural Equity Incubator to host Rent’s Due! A Fundraiser Showcase featuring fellow creatives who wish to keep creating in and giving back to the city of Boston we call home.
- Event is September 20. Learn more and get tickets here!
Esta Isla Screening Tour Boston
- Join us at the newly-inaugurated Jazz Urbane in Roxbury for an evening of cinema exploring identity, territory, and memory. This screening is part of BoriCorridor's community-based tour connecting Puerto Rican cultural organizers across the United States. Directors Lorraine Jones Molina and Cristian Carretero will join for a Q&A following the film.
- Event is September 24. Learn more and get tickets here!
Cabin In The Sky
- Cabin in the Sky is a three-day outdoor Afrofuturist activation by artist Ifé Franklin in Franklin Park. The ancestral Slave/Freedom Cabin becomes a mothership, a vessel carrying the souls of our ancestors toward freedom. Through an Ancestor Procession, a Hush Harbor, projection, soundscape, ring shout, and community ritual, we gather across past, present, and future. Dressed in white, we walk into the realm of the ancestors. Look up.
- Event is September 25-27. Learn more and RSVP here!
le temps - a new play salon reading
- TC2 Theatre presents a salon reading of le temps a new comedy by Angele Maraj - followed by a post-show Q&A.
- Event is October 11. Learn more and RSVP here!
The Sitayana (Or “How to Make an Exit”) presented by CHUANG Stage
- Drawing from one of the greatest epics ever told, acclaimed playwright Lavina Jadhwani (1983–2025) boldly reimagines the Ramayana through the eyes of Sita—the princess, the queen, the wife, the mother, and this time, the author of her own story. Part Sanskrit epic, part coming-of-age story, and ultimately a break-up play, The Sitayana is a vibrant, witty exploration of love, duty, liberation, and the courage to know when—and how—to make an exit. With movement devised by the ensemble, the production holds that Sita was never one woman: she is all of us.
- Event runs October 14-31. Learn more and get tickets here!

Upcoming Artist Opportunities
- Check out this helpful list of calls for artists. List put together by Mass Cultural Council.
A4A Space Finder
- This resource points Massachusetts artists toward various resources that can help them secure affordable rental housing or homebuying opportunities, and affordable workspace. Check it out here!
Card to Culture
- Card to Culture provides EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare cardholders free or steeply discounted admission to a variety of arts, humanities, and science organizations across the Commonwealth.
- Learn more and register here!
NEFA Jobs and Opportunities Board
- Check out this helpful list of upcoming jobs and opportunities!
The Broad Institute Artist in Residence
- The program allows revolutionary scientists and forward-thinking artists to work, communicate, and learn together to benefit both science and art, spurring the creative thinking that drives innovation. The Broad Institute has hosted a variety of artists since the inception of the artist-in-residence program in 2006.
- Deadline to apply is October 1. Learn more and apply here!
Creative Entrepreneur Fellowship
- The Creative Entrepreneur Fellowship (CEF) is designed to accelerate the careers and practice of a diverse group of artists and creative solopreneurs. CEF is a customized professional development experience for 8-10 individuals who are selected through a competitive application process. The program kicks off in December 2026 and runs through June 2027.
- Deadline to apply is October 13. Learn more and apply here!

Assets for Artists Free Workshops
- Check out A4A’s upcoming free professional development workshops here!
- For workshops in Spanish click here! Talleres en español aquí!
Register for Classes as the Eliot School
- Sign up for classic classes like Turkish Paper Marbling, Monotype Printing, Spoon Carving, and more!
- Register for classes here!
Free Workshops with the Arts Action Consortium
- Spiritual Wellness As Artistic Foundation: October 20. Dunamis. Register here!
- Education as Program Design: November 10. Dunamis. Register here!
- Project Planning for Dancers: September 25. Midday Movement. Register Here!
- An Introduction to Cooperatives in the Arts: September 30-October 1. Assets for Artists. Register Here!
- BCC Grant Review Sessions: October 1-8. Register Here!
- Essentials of Digital Marketing: October 9. Assets for Artists. Register Here!
- Project Management: October 15-22. Assets for Artists. Register Here!
- Spiritual Wellness As Artistic Foundation: October 20. Dunamis. Register Here!
- Radiant Thriving: Bold Writing for Boundless Artists: October 27-28. Assets for Artists. Register Here!

Creative Labor: A Boston Cultural Policy Summit
- Creative labor — the work of artists and cultural workers — is real labor, deserving of fair pay, stable conditions, and the same dignity and protections as work in any other sector. In collaboration with Arts Activate Boston, we aim to inform an equitable cultural labor policy for Boston and to make the case for creative labor as civic infrastructure.
- Event is September 18. Learn more and RSVP here!
Basic Needs Resources
- You cannot make art unless your basic needs are met. Check out the new basic needs resource list on the AAC website for information related to food access, legal help, housing, and medical/wellness needs.
- Click here for the basic needs resource guide!
Arts & Culture Accessibility Hub
- The Arts & Culture Accessibility Hub is your new go-to resource for transforming access intentions into meaningful action. This is a free, easy-to use platform that provides you with the information, tools, training, and resources to strengthen your organization’s accessibility and build deeper connections with your community.
- Check out the Accessibility Hub here!
Know Your Rights
- Whether you’re a U.S. citizen, a green card holder, a student on a visa, or undocumented, you have legal rights. The Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition website is full of useful resources. Check out this fact sheet to review your rights!
Support Operation Olive Branch Mutual Aid
- Operation Olive Branch is a grassroots effort to amplify and support oppressed and occupied peoples on the quest to Collective Liberation in Palestine, Congo, Sudan, and beyond.
- Click here to access their spreadsheet of calls to action, mutual aid requests, and more.

Dunamis is thrilled to partner with The Boston Compass to collaboratively highlight the amazing things happening in arts and culture in the Boston Area. Enjoy this free events calendar curated by Boston Compass!

Rolling Applications

Queer Joy Market - 10am-3:30pm

Open Craft @ Salt - 12:30pm-3:30pm

Musical Theatre Jazz - 11:30am-12:15pm

Queer Joy Bungee - 12:30-1:15pm

“My shirts all shrunk!” Headlining Performance by Eliza Malecki- 4pm

Family Dance: Pride Edition - 9am-9:30am

Yoga for Queers & Friends with Lyons Heart Yoga - 10-10:45am

Drawn to Life with Jeremy Frias - 11am-12pm

Queer Joy Performance - 2-3pm

Community Sound Healing with Kristen Miller - 4-5pm

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