Organized by areas identified in the Create, Connect, and Catalyze Framework
CREATE
- How Can You Close the School Year? Six Ideas That Work for In-Person, Hybrid, and Remote Students, Facing History and Ourselves
- Why the slow, mindful craft of pottery is booming worldwide, BBC
- Meet The Linda Lindas, The Young Punk Band Whose Song About Racism Rocked the Internet, BuzzFeed
- In Vivid Pastels, Adrian Armstrong Explores the Complexity of Blackness: Armstrong’s layered portraits prompt a consideration of race that is not tethered to skin shades, Hyperallergic
- Hannah Höch on How to Be an Artist, ART SY
- Webinars and workshops series for artists, Mass Cultural Council in partnership with MASS MoCA’s Assets for Artists.
CONNECT
- Leader Interview: Celina Miranda, Recipient of the Lewis Prize. Hear from the Executive Director of the Hyde Square Task Force, Creative Generation
- Eliot Schoolyard Concert Series (Jun 6-Sept 26), Eliot School of Fine & Applied Arts, Jamaica Plain
- An Art Installation Along the Mystic River Streams Sounds Straight into Your Ears, The ARTery, WBUR
- The Me You Can’t See explores mental health and emotional well-being with stories from people around the world
- How We Grieve: Meghan O’Rourke on the Messiness of Mourning and Learning to Live with Loss, Brain Pickings
- Boston Area Network of Teaching Artists offers connection and resource sharing
CATALYZE
- 2021 Definition of Systems Change, The Lewis Prize
- “Getting Equitable Access to Arts Education: Understanding the American Rescue Plan Act” hear about Biden administration’s American Rescue Plan Act, Grantmakers in the Arts
- Quick Study: May 25, 2021. Affirming the value of research and data in the arts, National Endowment for the Arts
- Boston Pride Calendar and Express Your Pride encourages everyone to show their Pride by decorating their houses, apartments, windows, doors, porches, yards, cars, and neighborhoods. Send photos or videos or tag @Boston.Pride in your Instagram stories with hashtag #ExpressYourPride and/or #ExpresarTuOrgullo
Funding
- Senate approves Mass Cultural Council’s $20M spending request. Please thank your state Senator today using MASSCreative’s advocacy alert.
- BPS Summer 2021 Employment opportunities
- Now and There, The Accelerator Cohort Four is accepting Greater Boston Artist applications. Deadline: June 4
- Calls for Art and Artists: NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest is open for submissions. WBUR, Deadline: June 7
- Collective Futures Fund supports visual artists and artist-run activity in the Greater Boston area through grants between $2,000 and $6,000. Deadline: June 15
- 2021 Summer Learning Opportunities announced by the Baker-Polito Administration. Deadline: June 18
- Transformative Public Art: The Joy Agenda! Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture and the Boston Art Commission. Deadline: June 2, 15 and 30
- Bow Seat grants Educator Innovation Awards of $750. Nomination Deadline: July 1
- Grants for Arts Projects is the National Endowment for the Arts’ principal grants program for organizations based in the United States. Deadline: July 8
- 2022 Accelerator Awards applications, The Lewis Prize for Music. Accelerator Awards are open to CYD music organizations seeking to influence youth-serving systems so all young people have access to learning, creating, and performing experiences that reflect their culture and identity. Deadline: July 16
- The 2021 Rural Placemaking Innovation Challenge from the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture is a federal funding opportunity that can support creative placemaking initiatives for rural and remote communities. Deadline: July 26
- See more artist opportunities on ArtSake
