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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Upcoming Artist Grants and Opportunities
- Check out this helpful list of upcoming grants. List put together by Mass Cultural Council.
Ben and Jerry's Foundation
- The foundation invites applications to its National Grassroots Organizing Program (NGO), which offers two-year, unrestricted, general operating support grants of up to $30,000 per year—with an average grant size of $20,000 per year—to small, constituent-led grassroots organizations across the United States and its territories. While the foundation’s broad goals are to further social and environmental justice, its primary purpose is to support the local leadership and grassroots organizing activities of our grant partners rather than any specific issues the organizations are addressing.
- Applications are rolling. Learn more and apply here!
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!
Age Strong Commission
- Through the Age Strong Rolling Grants, Mayor Michelle Wu and the City of Boston’s Age Strong Commission seek to fund projects that are small in scale to support organizations serving Boston’s older adults. The Age Strong Rolling Grants are designed to ensure that financial barriers do not stand in the way of an organization’s ability to meet the needs of older adult programs throughout the year.
- 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!
Adobe Creative Residency Community Fund
- You do not need to submit a project proposal with your application. If selected, you will receive US$10,000 from the Adobe Creative Residency Community Fund.
- Deadline is rolling. Learn more and apply here!
The Brooks and Joan Fortune Family Foundation
- BJFF primarily provides funds to support education, art, and outreach programs and projects. In general, the foundation desires to support specific activities that result in a defined outcome rather than general operating funds or fundraising campaigns. Funding requests between $1,000 and $10,000 will receive greater consideration.
- Deadline is rolling. Learn more and apply here!
Mattina R. Proctor Foundation
- The Mattina R. Proctor Foundation provides support to nonprofit organizations primarily in Maine and Massachusetts. Grantmaking focuses on education, including educational opportunities in music, performance, and traditional trades and crafts; the arts, including organizations and initiatives that bring fine music, arts, and media to the people of Maine and Massachusetts, with a special focus on opera; healthcare initiatives; and environmental stewardship. Grants are typically made for a specific project in a single year. Grants up to $50,000.00.
- Applications are rolling. Learn more and apply here!
New Commonwealth Fund Immediate-Need Investments
- Currently accepting applications. Investments will not exceed $2,500 and decisions are made quarterly.
- Learn more and apply here!
The Puffin Foundation
- The Puffin Foundation provides grants to emerging artists and arts organizations often excluded from mainstream opportunities. Funding is currently focused on projects in the areas of fine arts, music, and photography. The Foundation prioritizes art that educates and engages the public on topical issues such as climate change, healthcare, social justice, and civil rights.
- Deadline to apply is November 21. Learn more and apply here!
New Music Creator Fund
- The Creator Fund offers grants to individual music creators working in any genre who need support to get to the next stage of their creative practice.
- Deadline to apply is November 21. Learn more and apply here!
New England States Touring (NEST) Grant
- NEST 1
  - Funds the public presentation and community engagement activities of a New England artist presented by a New England nonprofit organization based in a different New England state from the artist’s home state.
- NEST 2
  - Funds the public presentation and community engagement activities of a New England artist presented by two New England nonprofit organizations. A NEST 2 tour must include one presenting organization based inside of the artist’s home state and one other organization from outside of the artist’s home state.
- Deadline to apply is December 1. Learn more and apply here!
The Venturous Theater Fund
- The Venturous Theater Fund aims to make venturous, challenging theater possible for companies and audiences alike. The Fund supports small and medium-sized nonprofit theaters in the U.S. that produce bold new plays driven by the unique voice and vision of the playwright. Grants cover extraordinary production costs for works that are ambitious in scale, experimental in form, or provocative in subject. Eligible theaters have annual budgets under $5 million and are either nonprofit organizations or fiscally sponsored by one. Grants up to $35,000.00.
- Deadline to apply is December 1. Learn more and apply here!
The Shubert Foundation
- The Shubert Foundation supports the ongoing vitality of live performing arts across the U.S., prioritizing nonprofit professional theater and also funding dance organizations. Its primary focus is on providing general operating support, but it also funds arts-related organizations, leading drama departments, and new theatrical works. Grants range from $15,000 - $371,000.
- Deadline for Dance, Arts-Related, and Shubert Scholars is December 4 for Theater. Learn more and apply here!
The Wyeth Foundation for American Art
- The Wyeth Foundation for American Art provides financial support to encourage the study, appreciation, and recognition of excellence in all aspects of historic American art. The Foundation does not support grant applications exclusively focused on art of the last three decades or living artists.
- Deadline to apply is December 12. Learn more and apply here!
Cultural Facilities Fund
- Grants to support the acquisition, design, repair, rehabilitation, renovation, expansion, or construction of nonprofit cultural facilities. Nonprofit cultural organizations, municipalities, and colleges or universities that own or lease cultural facilities are eligible to apply. Grants range from $7,000 to $200,000. Managed in partnership with MassDevelopment.
- Deadline to apply is December 19. Learn more and apply here!
The Brooks and Joan Fortune Foundation
- Provides funds to support education, art, and outreach programs and projects. In general, the foundation desires to support specific activities that result in a defined outcome rather than general operating funds or fundraising campaigns.
- Applications due December 31, 2025. Learn more here!
Wyeth Foundation for American Art
- The Wyeth Foundation for American Art reviews funding proposals from nonprofit institutions to support research, conservation, and exhibition programming in American art. Grants from the Foundation typically support innovative exhibitions that explore new research about American art; innovative and important museum catalogues and books; and conservation and restoration of American masterpieces. Grant are typically $5,000 to $25,000.
- Deadline to apply is January 26. Learn more and apply here!
YouthReach
- Grants to Creative Youth Development programs that integrate substantive and ongoing arts, humanities, and science opportunities into a collaborative community response.
- Opens February 5, 2026. Deadline to apply is April 2, 2026.

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!
Mass Open Studios Fall 2025
- Check out these open studios in Massachusetts this August through December!
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!
Cubamor from Front Porch Arts Collective and Teatro Chelsea
- Set against the vibrant backdrop of Havana, Cubamor is a contemporary story of two couples who fall in love across the American and Cuban political, historical, and social divide. Guided and sometimes challenged by the island’s spiritual forces, they navigate questions of identity, connection, and belonging through the rhythms of Cuba itself. With an energetic blend of traditional Cuban music and hip hop, this staged reading of Cubamor invites audiences to experience the pulse of a culture where passion, history, and the power of love collide.
- Performances run November 12-14 for just $10. Learn more and get tickets here!
A Revelation of Character - New play about Boston's female abolitionists
- The play dramatizes the fraught relationship between abolitionists Lydia Maria Child and Maria Weston Chapman. Playwright Patrick Gabridge drew from original letters in the Boston Public Library's Anti-Slavery Collection, many of which were conserved and digitized with funding from the Associates of the Boston Public Library.
- Event runs November 12-15. Learn more and register here!
Color Flows Closing Block Party
- A block party to send off Color Flows on Winter Street with a celebration of the art, culture, and community that made it all possible. Don’t miss your last chance to experience Winter Street transformed by music, activations, and more.
- Event is November 15. Learn more here!
"Ways of My Ancestors" Opening Reception
- Please join us for an opening reception of Ways of My Ancestors - Imagery: Lighting the Path to Awareness with spoken words by the artist and other members of the Native American community at the west end between historic Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market. Light refreshments will be provided.
- Event is November 19. Learn more and register here!
Yabás—Divine Forces of Nature
- Brazilian master dancer Isaura Oliveira leads Yabás—Divine Natural Forces, a bold, immersive experimental dance and ritual performance, featuring Power of Skirts and guest artists at Dorchester’s historic Strand Theater.
- Event is November 22. Learn more and get tickets here!
Mari Osanai Performance @ the Barn
- Mari Osanai was born 1956 and lives in Aomori, Japan. She trained in Classical Ballet, Modern dance, Jazz dance, Aomori traditional folk dance Tsugaru Teodori, Taichi Noguchi, Taiso and studied under Mr. Hironobu Oikawa. Her unique movements and original style are realized through interweaving these diverse techniques. She has taught and performed in Canada, U.S.A, Greece, Germany, Mexico, and Japan.
- Event is December 7. 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 compiled by Jeffrey Lyons Filiault at NEFA of upcoming jobs and opportunities!
Dunamis Emerging Artist Fellowship
- Are you searching for a creative community? Passionate about creating art? Unsure how to navigate the creative industry? Need clarity in discovering artistic identity/perspective? The Emerging Artist Fellowship (EAF) might be for you! Dunamis is excited to launch it's EAF program in the Spring of 2026. Our EAF program provides professional development training for emerging artists of color. Over the course of a year, you will have access to workshops, masterclasses, social events and one-on-one coaching to help develop your artistic lens and kickstart your career as a creative entrepreneur.
- Deadline to apply is November 14. Learn more and apply here!
Eliot School 2027 Artist in Residence
- The Eliot School is seeking a Greater Boston-based artist to be our 2027 Artist in Residence. Through a spring workshop series and summer intensive, the selected artist will collaborate with passionate youth in our Teen Bridge Program to create public art with thoughtful community engagement at its core.
- Deadline to apply is November 16. Learn more and apply here!
North Berkshire & Worcester County Capacity-Building Cohorts
- The A4A Capacity-Building Program provides individualized, artist-centered professional development to help artists strengthen their creative practice, pursue values-driven careers, build mutually-supportive networks and find resources to achieve long term sustainability and self-determination. Over the course of six months, Capacity-Building Program artists attend a series of scheduled cohort gatherings and workshops aimed at simultaneously building professional skills and a creative community, and receive $2,000 in unrestricted funds.
- Deadline to apply is December 15. 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!
Arts Action Consortium Upcoming Workshops
- Dunamis: Interdependence: Community Care as Burnout Response. November 18. Learn more and register here!
- A&BC Gallery Representation. November 19. Learn more and register here!
- A4A Resource Mapping for Individual Artists. December 3. Learn more and register here!
- A4A Intro to Taxes for Artists. December 8. Learn more and register here!
ANIKAYA’s Birds Intensive
- ANIKAYA Birds Intensives take participants on an embodied journey through the story of the Conference of the Birds, a poem by 12th century Persian poet Farid uddin Attar which is ever relevant. This immersive program offers a unique blend of embodied research and cross-cultural community building, anchored in places offer us unique insights into the history of human movement, and that, in conjunction with the poem, provokes important conversations about our constructions of identity, community, history and the present moment.
- Dance and Culture Immersion in Cotonou, Benin: Rolling admissions, deadline to apply is April 1 2026
Artist Statements For Every Occasion
- Join Lennon Hernandez Wolcott, Artist and Arts Administrator, for a conversation that will support a greater sense of confidence to explore and represent your own ideas, understand your audience, and find just the right words to express your ideas.
- Workshop is December 4. Learn more and register here!
Noguchi Taiso - Butoh Workshop with Mari Osanai
- Mari Osanai’s workshops focus on Noguchi Taiso combined with the influences of her early training in Tai Chi, Western dance methods, traditional folk dance in Aomori, Japan (her birthplace), and the connection between one’s thoughts and sensation of weight. Exercises in the workshop train the body to embrace its weight and heighten its sensitivity to move from its most relaxed and receptive state.
- Workshop os December 5-7. Learn more and register here!

City of Boston Funding Equity and Impact Survey
- The Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture is partnering with Keen Independent to conduct an equity and impact study of the City’s grant programs dedicated to the arts.
- Take the survey here!
Tracking Federal Actions Impacting the Nonprofit Sector
- Check out the latest updates here.
Basic Needs Resources
- You cannot make art unless your basic needs are met. As programs like SNAP and Medicaid are facing cuts during this federal government shutdown, we want to make sure all artists have access to vital resources. 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!
December Artivist Town Hall
- MASSCreative’s Artivist Town Hall is a webinar series that connects artists and creatives with resources, training, and expert insights to support you in your creative practices and activism. We are welcoming partners from the Massachusetts Health Connector to discuss open enrollment and answer your questions so you can get insured. Open enrollment began on November 1, 2025 and goes through January 23, 2026.
- Event is December 3. Learn more and register here!
Help Spread Warmth This Winter
- Sew Many Mittens is a community service project to create 350 pairs of mittens for our unhoused neighbors across Greater Boston. To make it happen, the Eliot School need volunteers to help at the event on January 10, as well as donations of gently used or new 100% wool clothing or blankets (holes are fine) by December 5.
- Learn more here!
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!
Make a Plan to Vote in Your Preliminary Election!
- Municipal preliminary elections in Massachusetts are coming up fast! Local elections have a direct influence over what's happening in your community: decisions about school districts, zoning, local taxes, and more are all made by your local elected officials. Despite the outsized impact of municipal elections, an average of only 15%-27% of eligible voters participate in local elections. Local elections are sometimes decided by a single vote and your participation matters. Make sure you know when your municipal preliminary election date is and check that your voter registration is up to date.
- Click here to find your upcoming election information!
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.
Call, email, and send letters to elected officials
- Mad about the state of our country? Same. There is strength in numbers, call, state the issues that are important to you, and make your voice heard.
  - Click here for a helpful resource to help contact your legislators.

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!

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