Public Art for Spatial Justice
Deadline
December 2, 2025
28 days left
Application Fee
FREE
Rewards
Multiple Rewards
Interest
High
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About This Opportunity
At NEFA, we believe in the arts as a powerful tool for positive change and that public art has the power to shift public culture and change the future.
The freedoms to create, access, express, and share arts and cultures are human rights that are essential to more equitable and vibrant public spaces, but these freedoms aren't equitably afforded to all. Public Art for Spatial Justice aims to support public artmaking that helps us see, feel, experience and imagine more just futures for our public spaces and public culture.
**How It Works**
Massachusetts-based artist(s) and Massachusetts-based organizations working with artist(s), are welcome to apply for a project grant. Projects must take place in Massachusetts and creatively cultivate expressions or embodiments of spatial justice through public artmaking. All artistic disciplines are welcome to apply.
What You'll Get
Types: FUNDING
Public Art for Spatial Justice grants range from $15,000-$30,000, for up to two-year grant period beginning March 2026 through February 2028.
Application Requirements
- ARTIST_STATEMENT
- ARTWORK_PORTFOLIO
- PROJECT_DESCRIPTION
- CV
- APPLICATION_FORMS
- COST_ESTIMATION
- PRODUCTION_SCHEDULE_TIMETABLE
Eligibility
Geographic Requirements
Massachusetts, MA, US
Other Requirements
**Lead Applicant must be based in Massachusetts.** Lead applicant may a be… * **Massachusetts-based Artist(s)**. Individual artist applicants must be 18+ years old. Artistic collaborations may be a group of artists informally working together for this particular project, or an artist collective that regularly works together on projects. * **Community-based organization in Massachusetts**, working in collaboration with a particular artist(s) Recognizing the intersectionality of identities, we acknowledge that artists may also identify as cultural practitioners, activists, and community-rooted collaborators, and may be self/community-taught, institutionally trained, or a combination of both. All are welcome to apply. **Proposed public art projects must:** * Be located in Massachusetts. * Engage the public realm and/or be available to the general public to happen upon. * Cultivate expressions of and/or embodiments of spatial justice through public artmaking. Projects of all artistic disciplines –visual, performative, rooted in ritual, etc.-- are eligible. **Not eligible** * Lead applicants based outside of Massachusetts. * Proposed projects based outside of Massachusetts. * Current PASJ grantee (lead applicant) who has not completed their respective grantee report. * **Past PASJ Grantees are not eligible to apply to PASJ again for a full calendar year** from completing their grantee report (e.g., If you submit a PASJ grantee report on June 1, 2025, that is approved, you are not eligible to submit a new application for PASJ till June 1, 2026, or after).
New England Foundation for the Arts
Boston, US
Verified Organization
Active since 2020
Ready to take the next step?
Don't miss out on this opportunity. Applications close on December 2, 2025.