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Jobs
What: Woodworker
Who: Stand and Build is a complete design and build studio.
Where: Queens, NY
How much: $28-33/hr
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What: Exhibition & Operations Manager
Who: Space ZeroOne is a new initiative of the Hanwha Foundation of Culture, extending the foundation’s longstanding commitment to cultural exchange and artistic experimentation into the heart of New York’s art world.
Where: New York, NY
How much: $60-70k
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What: Program Assistant
Who: Getty Foundation advances art historical scholarships, conserves works of art and architecture, increases access to museum and archival collections, and helps train the next generation of arts professionals.
Where: Los Angeles, CA
How much: $62,540-79,732
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What: Video Editor
Who: Strother School of Radical Attention is a non-profit dedicated to Attention Activism.
Where: Brooklyn, NY
How much: $24-28/hr
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What: Watershed Advocacy Manager; Grant Writer (Contract, Temp); Strategic Communications Consultant (Contract, Temp)
Who: Guardians of Flushing Bay is a coalition of human-powered boaters, park users, and local residents advocating for a healthy and equitably accessible Flushing Waterways.
Where: New York, NY
How much: $71,500-78k; $25k project fee; $25k project fee
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What: Marketing Coordinator
Who: MVVA’s team believes in the rejuvenating power of landscape.
Where: Brooklyn, NY
How much: $70-85k
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What: Communications Intern (Temp)
Who: The Bridge Project is the first multi-state direct cash program for moms and babies in the United States, working to ensure every baby has a fair start in life.
Where: New York, NY
How much: $20/hr (up to 30 hrs/wk)
What: Spatial Designer
Who: Pink Sparrow designs, fabricates, and deploys activations nationwide.
Where: New York, NY or Los Angeles, CA
How much: $85-95k
What: Audience Editor
Who: Freedom of the Press Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting and defending journalism in the 21st century.
Where: Remote
How much: $100-110k
What: Sr. Editor, Local & Engagement
Who: The Marshall Project is a nonprofit news organization dedicated to covering the U.S. criminal justice system.
Where: Remote
How much: $150-165k
What: Program Director, Democracy & Civic Life
Who: Henry Luce Foundation’s mission is to transform the world by boosting access to knowledge and forward-thinking ideas.
Where: New York, NY
How much: $200-230k
What: Editorial Content Producer
Who: Poetry Foundation transforms lives through the power of words.
Where: Chicago, IL
How much: $90-100k
What: Web Accessibility Specialist
Who: The Frick Collection is New York’s home for art from the Renaissance to the late nineteenth century.
Where: New York, NY
How much: $70-80k
What: Content Manager
Who: Scale Justice is a leading nonprofit access to justice innovator with a 25-year history of impact.
Where: New York, NY
How much: $80-90k
What: Project Manager; Curatorial Assistant
Who: MoMA’s Ambasz Institute promotes the exploration and study of creative approaches to design at all scales of the built environment.
Where: New York, NY
How much: $85-90k; $74,858
What: Sr. Digital Director
Who: National Domestic Workers Alliance works to win respect, recognition, and labor rights and protections for the nearly 2.5 million nannies, housecleaners, and homecare workers who do the essential work of caring for our loved ones and our homes.
Where: Remote
How much: $122-144k
What: i-team Civic Designer
Who: Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation drives innovation in local government by marrying cutting-edge practice with world-class research.
Where: Lansing, MI
How much: $62,900-110,100
What: Communications Specialist
Who: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a research and development lab.
Where: Los Angeles, CA
How much: $80,496-102,648
What: Studio Manager
Who: Brook Landscape is a design-build firm specializing in refined urban outdoor spaces.
Where: Brooklyn, NY
How much: $70-80k
What: Exhibition Designer
Who: Harvard Art Museums promote exploratory thinking about art.
Where: Cambridge, MA
How much: $68,100-111,500
What: Curator
Who: Iowa Women’s Archives holds more than 1,200 manuscript collections that chronicle the lives and work of Iowa women, their families, and their communities.
Where: Iowa City, IA
How much: $65-120k
What: Assembly Associate
Who: APPARATUS is a designer and manufacturer of a distinctive catalog of high-end, high-touch lighting, furniture and objects.
Where: Brooklyn, NY
How much: $22/hr
What: Director of Public History
Who: Green-Wood Cemetery is a living cemetery that brings people closer to the world as it is and was.
Where: Brooklyn, NY
How much: $90k
What: Sr. Coordinator, Exhibitions
Who: New York Public Library is a free provider of education and information for the people of New York and beyond.
Where: New York, NY
How much: $65-72k
What: Sr. Manager, Digital Editorial & Web Content
Who: The Whitney houses the foremost collection of American art from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Where: New York, NY
How much: $90-100k
What: Associate Editor
Who: The Baffler is America’s leading voice of incisive and unconventional left-wing political criticism, cultural analysis, short stories, poems, and art.
Where: New York, NY
How much: $65-72,500
What: Associate, Technology; Assistant Director, Technology Delivery
Who: Partners for Public Good is a nonprofit dedicated to helping state and local governments harness core operational functions to drive public impact.
Where: Remote (US)
How much: $102,800; $138,780
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Classifieds
✷ Urbanism Study Trip to Mexico City with Urban Design Forum ✷ Join UDF October 5-9 to learn from Mexico City’s approaches to mobility, housing, and the public realm. Participants will meet with government agencies, visit design and development firms, talk with community leaders, and visit projects across the city.
✷ Piedmont Craftsmen's 63rd Annual Fair | Deadline: 5/15 ✷ Piedmont Craftsmen invites creative voices making handmade work to apply for Guild Membership. Piedmont Craftsmen accepts fine craft work in the following media: book arts, clay, fiber, glass, jewelry, leather, metal, mixed media, paper, photography, printmaking, and wood.
✷ Branding that holds up to the work behind it ✷ TART partners with nonprofits & mission-driven orgs to build brand identities + websites that bring the same care to how you show up as you bring to the work itself. 🍋 tartnyc.com
✷ NYC Fall Herbalism Immersion ✷ Curious about plants? Love to learn new skills and make friends? Join Herban Cura in New York City for an introductory 4-session Fall Herbalism Immersion designed to inspire and enliven. Starts the weekend of Sunday September 6th.
✷ Behind on music? Lost on who's touring? Group chats hyping songs you don't know? ✷ Subscribe to Play On, your cheat sheet for music, culture, and what's actually worth a listen. Every issue covers the week's biggest music news, new releases, and who's on tour. Curated, never coded.
✷ Creative Reset: Giving Yourself Permission ✷ A no-pressure experience by StartupTools4Artists online for creatives who feel stuck or scattered. Reconnect to what you want, taking one clear step forward. Thurs. June 4th, 1, 2, 5pm ET. Questions: [email protected].
Calls
New Funding: Working Assumptions Project Grants | Deadline: 6/1
Working Assumptions awards six unrestricted Project Grants of $10,000 to support photography and photo-based art projects that explore the everyday give-and-take of family, caregiving, and interdependence.
New Call for Pitches: Lux Magazine Call for Pitches—COLLEGE | Deadline: 5/15
Lux magazine is looking for pitches for our upcoming themed issue, COLLEGE. We want reporting on conservative campus crackdowns, the influence of mega-donors, student organizing, and more. We want personal essays with a strong thesis, on-theme reviews, deep cuts on education from the feminist archive. Send ideas to [email protected] with the subject line "College.”
New FloCo Painting Residency—Summer 2026 | Deadline: 5/24
We are inviting proposals for our inaugural painting residency built around five large canvases. Resident will receive a membership to our shared Brooklyn work space for the length of the residency (June–August), continued use of our space as a selling gallery, and a stipend of $500.
New Call for Submissions: 7ajr School for Creative Research/Resistance | Deadline: 6/15
This collaborative workshop brings together artists, students, and community members using audio, video, and storytelling to explore memory, identity, and history, with a focus on Palestinian experiences and global solidarity.
New Residency: Residenza Lago Scuro | Deadline: 6/7
This self-directed Interdisciplinary residency offers creatives the chance to explore their practice, exchange ideas, and make work while living on, and learning about, a beautiful regenerative farm in Northern Italy. The Fall 2026 cohort is cost-free, not including travel fees. Application fee: $30.
New Call for Volunteers: Black Forest Nature Library | Deadline: 5/11
Black Forest, an artist-led initiative founded at MIT that is breathing new life into Black communities by planting 40k trees for Black lives and archiving Black nature, is seeking volunteers to help build a modular library for books and plants at the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair in New York.
Call for Applications: $50,000 Prize Open to Immigrants Working in Culinary Arts | Deadline: 5/4
Call for Applications: Curatorial Program for Research's Hello New York Program | Deadline: 5/4
Call for Applications: Carnegie Young Leaders Open Call | Deadline: 5/4
Call for Submissions: Roost Arts Hudson Valley Exhibition | Deadline: 5/10
Residency: Michigan Central Art and Newlab Detroit Creative Residency | Deadline: 5/10
Residency: Quinn Emanuel Los Angeles Artist in Residence | Deadline: 5/14
Residency: Dieu Donné Workspace Residency Program | Deadline: 5/15
Residency: Women's Studio Workshop Residencies | Deadline: 5/15, 5/30
Funding: Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation 2026 Grant for Writing on Sculpture | Deadline: 5/31
Residency: 2026-27 BRIClab Residencies | Deadline: 6/5
Call for Submissions: CriticalProductive Journal | Deadline: 6/10
Funding: Franklin Furnace XENO PRIZE for Artists’ Books | Deadline: 7/4
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