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Job & Volunteer Opportunities
2/4/2025
Museum Guides (Seasonal Workers)
The State of Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) is seeking Museum Guides (Seasonal Workers) to be stationed at one or more of the four museums operated by the DECD: Eric Sloane Museum (Kent), Old New-Gate Prison & Copper Mine (East Granby), Prudence Crandall Museum (Canterbury), and the Henry Whitfield State Museum (Guilford).
The Museum Guides will report to the staff person in charge of the site. This position allows for a minimum of 16 hours/week to a maximum of 40 hours/week and requires weekend work. Individual work schedules will be determined by the site supervisor. Some holiday work will be required. Training will begin in late April, and the open season will run from May through November.
1/21/2025
Grants Officer II
Reporting to the Deputy Director of Grants and Programs as part of the Grants Department, the Grants Officer II plays a pivotal role in community engagement and the development and implementation of a new community-based, grantmaking and capacity-building program focused on organizations serving constituents from underserved and marginalized communities such as Black, Latino/a/e, Indigenous and Native American, Asian/Asian-American, Pacific Islander, and other communities across the Greater Hartford region. For full details and to apply please visit https://cthumanities.bamboohr.com/careers/28
Calls for Artists & Auditions
Guilford Art Center Seeks Artists for Gallery Exhibition “Dear Mother,”
April 4, 2025
Guilford Art Center is actively seeking artists to submit work for an upcoming national juried gallery exhibition called Dear Mother,. This exhibit aims to present artworks which honor our relationship to the natural world through a variety of mediums and practices. This exhibition will explore and embrace our most ancient connections through one of our most human behaviors – artmaking.
GAC is seeking to display artworks incorporating natural elements or depicting natural scenes. It is up to the participating artist how loosely or literally to interpret this.
Adult artists are invited to submit two pieces via email to aseneco@guilfordartcenter.org by April 4, 2025. Works will be juried by our in-house exhibitions team and artists will be notified about selected works by Monday, April 14, 2025. The exhibit will be on display from May 2 – June 1, 2025.
Outdoor Summer Arts Festival on the Essex Green
February - June 7, 2025
Arts Center Killingworth and Spectrum Gallery announce a Call for Representational and Abstract Painters, Sculptors, Illustrators, Photographers, Original Printmakers, Fabric Artists, Glass and Wood Artisans, Jewelry
Designers and Crafters for the 2025 Essex Town Green Outdoor Summer Arts Festival. Open to visual artists working in oil, acrylic, watercolor, photography, pencil and charcoal, paper, mixed media, fabric, glass, wood,
stone and clay.
Dates, Times, Location Sat, June 14 (10-5pm); Sun, June 15 (11-5pm) Essex Town Green, 12 Main Street, Essex CT
Outdoor Summer Arts Festival registration deadline is Wednesday, June 4, 2025. Space on the green is limited, so register as early as possible to reserve space and to be included in Festival pr materials and email announcements.
Submission Process
Materials Needed
Participation Fee
To ensure a variety of work at the Festival, there is a maximum of 40 Exhibitors, limited by medium. Email jpegs and a short bio to barbara@spectrumartgallery.org
THREE DIGITAL IMAGES OF ARTWORK (HIGH RESOLUTION JPEGS, 300dpi, 1-2MBs) Must
Include Title, Materials used and Size for each jpeg. In the subject line of the email please note: Submissions for Summer Arts Festival
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY. Maximum 300 words. Needs to be written in the 3rd person. Describe artistic style, awards, education, participation in art shows, and other noteworthy information. Word Document only. DO NOT send bios as images (i.e. JPEGs) or as PDFs. Full resumes or CVs are NOT accepted and will be returned to artists for resubmission.
Nature Up Close
February - May 2, 2025
We are moving into the joys of Summer and as a result looking closely at our gardens, emerging insects, flowers and trees. Gallery would like closeup images that engage us in these discoveries.
Receives: May 4-8 from 1:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Opens: Friday, May 16 — Reception 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Saturday, May 17 Open House 1:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Sunday, May 18 Open House 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Closes: Sunday, July 6
Good Morning/Good Night
February - March 7, 2025
Spectrum Art Gallery is looking for scenes (with or without people) that feature early morning light as it gives birth to the day, the darkness of night and the hidden and beautiful lights of the darkest evenings. The same scene both at night and in the morning is also welcome.
Receives: March 9-13 from 1:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Opens: Friday, March 21 — Reception 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Saturday, March 22 Open House 1:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Sunday, March 23 Open House 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Closes: Saturday, May 3
2/6/25
Ivoryton Playhouse Announces Young Performer Auditions!
2/15/2025
Ivoryton Playhouse is excited to announce a casting call for young performers to be featured in the children’s chorus of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat! Performers 8 – 15 years old are invited to audition on February 15th, 2025.
Auditions will occur from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM at the Ivoryton Playhouse Administrative Offices:
22 Main Street, Centerbrook, CT 06409.
Interested performers can sign up using the link below.
Performers should bring a headshot and resume and prepare a brief selection of a pop/rock song (16 – 32 bars). Short movement auditions .be scheduled during the last 15 minutes of each hour block. More information about these auditions and the 2025 season is available at ivorytonplayhouse.org.
Rehearsal for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat will occur from June 10th to June 25th; previews begin June 26th, and opening night is June 27th. The show closes on July 27th. There will be seven performances each week, and all participants must be available for at least three performances a week. The performance schedule is:
Wednesdays – 2 pm
Thursdays – 2 pm and 7:30 pm
Fridays – 7:30 pm
Saturdays – 2 pm and 7:30 pm
Sundays – 2 pm
*Note: there is no performance on Friday, July 4th.
Don’t miss your chance to be part of the magic at Ivoryton Playhouse. We look forward to seeing you at the auditions!
2/4/2025
Call for Actors for New Plays Festival
Saturday, February 15, 2025
Oddfellows Playhouse will be hosting a New Plays Festival on Saturday, February 15, and actors (teens, college students and adults) are needed.
Five young playwrights have been working with nationally produced playwright Darcy Parker Bruce this winter, developing new work for the stage. Darcy Parker Bruce has an MFA in Playwriting from Smith College, and their plays have been produced across the country as well as in Australia, Germany and Ireland. They have received many awards and fellowships, and several of their plays have been published by Broadway Play Publishing.
The five playwrights are X Hoover, Bella Pramanik and Zaryana Maldonado, all of Middletown; Sawyer Hollant of Portland; and Bayley Sklodosky of East Hampton. At the New Plays Festival we will need approximately 20 actors to take on the roles in these freshly written productions. Each play will be directed by a locally-based professional theater director and performed in a script-in-hand format at 7 pm, followed by a talkback with the writers, directors and cast.
Acting opportunities are available for teens, college students, and adult actors. The New Plays Festival is a one day commitment for performers, and should be a fun and fast-paced day of creativity. There is no cost to participate and dinner will be provided. The Festival is on Saturday, February 15 (snow date February 16). Rehearsals will be held from 1pm to 5 pm. Dinner will be served at 5 pm, and the Public Performance will take place at 7 pm. The event is FREE.
To be a performer in the New Plays Festival, please contact info@oddfellows.org or call (860) 347-6143.
1/16/2025
Shoreline Arts Alliance's Future Choices
March 28 - April 11, 2025 & April 16 - April 27
Future Choices Annual Art Competition & Exhibition for students in grades 9 -12, who live or attend school in one of SAA's 24 designated towns - all of Middlesex County, Lyme, Old Lyme, East Lyme, Salem, Madison, Guilford, North Branford, Branford, and East Haven - are encouraged to submit artwork by the March 17, 2025 deadline in the following categories: Ceramics, Drawing, Mixed Media, Painting, Pastels, Photography, Prints, Sculpture, and Video.
* Work is reviewed by a panel of professional artists
* Accepted work is exhibited in a professional gallery space
* Artists’ Reception, hosted by Shoreline Arts Alliance, for students, family members, and teachers
Art submission dates: March 17 -19, 2025, 2:30-5:00 PM
Submission Fee: $7 per piece. Maximum of three pieces per student per category. A payment link is provided in the application form, or a check can be brought in on the day of submission.
Please view the full submission instructions on our website https://www.shorelinearts.org/future-choices-submissions
12/17/24
Art in Public Spaces Program
Deadline: February 25, 2025
The Connecticut Office of the Arts (COA) is seeking submissions of art by Connecticut artists for a new building addition on the campus of Central Connecticut State University (CCSU) in New Britain. The focus is to purchase existing art that's appropriate for interior hallways and seating areas in a busy campus building. We anticipate between 5 and 15 new works of art may be acquired within the budget and by roughly 5 to 10 artists.