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Lead Production Assistant

artsforla on July 24, 2025

ABOUT BROADSTAGE
BroadStage is a contemporary performing arts presenter in Santa Monica that energizes audiences and community through bold performances and personal connection. A proud partner of Santa Monica College, BroadStage’s primary venue is the Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center, which includes three venues: The Eli & Edythe Broad Stage, a 535-seat venue combining the warmth of a small theater with the acoustics and staging of a grand hall, The Edye, an intimate black box space, and The Plaza an indoor/outdoor space perfect for live music, dancing, and community building.

BroadStage is part of the SMC tradition of community service, providing educational programs for high school and college students, artist workshops, and special events. After a 15-year anniversary in 2023, we’re expanding to meet a rapidly evolving set of needs for artists, audiences, and community. Under the leadership of Artistic & Executive Director Rob Bailis, BroadStage is broadening its impact through a new artistic vision and expanded venue footprint, celebrating our shared humanity and expanding the role the arts play in the vitality of our diverse community. We believe that through the arts we can design the future we wish to see, evolving our work for a new day, and shaping a world in which we can all proudly live. To learn more about BroadStage visit www.BroadStage.org.

POSITION SUMMARY
The Lead Production Assistant is a part-time position that works alongside a team of Production Assistants (PAs) in a leadership capacity. Our PAs serve as backstage support for artists and their teams, crew members, and staff. This role oversees all PA tasks and responsibilities are carried out each shift. The Lead PA ensures we provide a hospitable, safe, and clean environment for artists and crew members during rehearsals, technical load-ins, receptions, and performances. The Lead PA is key to the provision of necessary information, amenities, and care for all who perform at BroadStage.

This position is part of the Production Department headed by the Director of Production and Theatre Operations. The Lead PA will directly report to the Production Manager or Production Supervisor scheduled at the time of the shift. This position will be trained by the Company Manager and will regularly provide updates after each event regarding hospitality and accommodation needs. 

The department requires that all staff members participate in mid-year and end-of-year evaluations to ensure that our work together continues to be efficient, accessible, and equitable.  

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES*
The Lead Production Assistant will fulfill regular, day to day PA tasks as well as leadership duties as follows: 
• Oversees backstage hospitality, security, and cleanliness during rehearsal and show days. 
• Manages artist services including but not limited to, artist check-ins, event-based shopping, backstage guest lists, and resolving any issues or questions pertaining to artist services. 
• Acts as shift lead for a small team of PAs and ensures duties are assigned and meal breaks are taken.  
• Primary liaison between Production Manager and PA team during shifts. 
• Completes pre-shift prep and end of shift check-ins with Production Manager/Company Manager.
• Works with Company Manager to keep PAs up to date on systems and protocols. 
• Ensures internal Production Department hospitality and production equipment is maintained and organized. 
• Setting up the in-house PA system for events as required. 
• Other duties as assigned. 

*This summary of job duties and responsibilities is not intended to cover all possible job duties and is subject to change at the employer’s discretion. 

QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIRED SKILLS
• Ability to commit to work a minimum of 75-80% of BroadStage Production shifts in the 25-26 season (please see website, www.broadstage.org, for season calendar). This includes mostly weeknights and weekends. 
• Experience leading/managing a small team. 
• Experience working backstage in an artist relations capacity. 
• Experience, ability, and commitment to working with individuals and teams of various identities such as race, gender-identity, sexual orientation, religion, ability, age, class and immigration status.   
• Strong leadership skills.  
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail. 
• Strong time management skills. 
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with artists, crew and colleagues. 
• Ability to self-manage responsibilities efficiently and professionally. 
• Ability to operate under pressure and be sensitive towards artist needs.  
• Respect for and general interest in performing arts is highly preferred. 
• High School Diploma or GED equivalent preferred (formal, informal and cross-disciplinary experiences will be considered). 
• Must attend mandatory (paid) trainings as scheduled by employer. 
• Must have a valid California Driver’s License and a car. 
• Must be able to purchase alcohol legally in California. 

COMPENSATION 
$21.00/Hour; Part-Time Non-Exempt, Seasonal

LOCATION
This position is based in Santa Monica, California.

HOW TO APPLY 
Please submit your cover letter and resume to production@broadstage.org and include “LEAD PRODUCTION ASSISTANT” with your first and last name in the subject line of the e-mail. 

Salary: $21.00/Hourly; Part-Time Non-Exempt, Seasonal

Benefits: NA; Part-Time Non-Exempt, Seasonal

Education requirements: High School Degree 

Deadline to apply: August 22, 2025 

Documents required to apply: Resume, Cover Letter, References

How to apply: Please submit your cover letter and resume to production@broadstage.org and include “LEAD PRODUCTION ASSISTANT” with your first and last name in the subject line of the e-mail. 

SUMMER * $1,800.00 Innovate Grants for Art + Photo

artsforla on July 22, 2025

☀️ SUMMER 2025 OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS — Innovate Grant is thrilled to introduce our newly increased award amounts of $1,800.00.

Innovate Grant awards (2) $1,800.00 grants each quarter, to one Visual Artist and one Photographer. In addition, (12) honorable mentions (6 in art and 6 in photo), will be featured on our website and join a growing community of vibrant and talented artists. Innovate Grant’s commitment extends beyond the grant cycle by promoting the work of selected winners and honorable mentions into the future. For more information and to apply visit https://innovateartistgrants.org

Innovate Grant supports artists and photographers through quarterly grants. We’ve simplified the grant process, so that artists and photographers can focus on making their innovative work. The work should speak for itself and our application reflects that.

Innovate Grant awards:
+ 1 x $1,800.00 Grant to a Visual Artist
+ 1 x $1,800.00 Grant to a Photographer
+ 12 x Honorable Mentions

Explore the work of ALL Past Innovate Grant recipients and read their interviews at https://innovateartistgrants.org

How to Apply: Visual Artists and Photographers 18 years and older, from all around the world, are eligible to apply. All media and genres are accepted. All applicants retain the right to the work they submit. Apply today at https://innovateartistgrants.org

Category: Multiple disciplines and genres accepted
Deadline: Wednesday, September 10, 2025 – Submit by 11:59PM Pacific Standard Time
Region: US & International
Awards: 2 x $1,800.00 USD Grants // 12 x Honorable Mentions

Apply Online Today
https://innovateartistgrants.org

Salary: $1,800 grant 

Benefits: Innovate Grant awards:
+ 1 x $1,800.00 Grant to a Visual Artist
+ 1 x $1,800.00 Grant to a Photographer
+ 12 x Honorable Mentions

Education requirements: None 

Deadline to apply: October 9, 2025 

Documents required to apply: Visual Artists and Photographers 18 years and older, from all around the world, are eligible to apply. All media and genres are accepted. 

How to apply: Apply via link 

Exhibitions Coordinator

artsforla on July 10, 2025

This is an exciting opportunity to join our team at the California African American Museum (CAAM). Founded in 1977, the California African American Museum’s (CAAM) mission is to research, collect, preserve, and interpret, for public enrichment, the history, art, and culture of African Americans. In 1984, CAAM moved to its 44,000-square-foot home at Exposition Park, South of Downtown Los Angeles. With an emphasis on California and the western United States, the museum’s permanent collection houses 4,000 objects, including paintings, photographs, film, sculpture, historical documents, and artifacts. CAAM avidly supports the work of under-represented artists of color to genuinely represent how people of the African diaspora have contributed to American culture and the world at large through temporary art and history exhibitions and public programming for visitors of all ages.

CAAM seeks a Exhibit Designer-Coordinator to fill the role of Exhibitions Coordinator. Under the direction of the Deputy Director, the Exhibit Designer-Coordinator, performs work to oversee all aspects of exhibition design, development, installation, and maintenance. This includes project coordination, administrative oversight, and collaboration with professional staff to integrate exhibitions with the museum’s broader plans and programs. Under the working title, Exhibitions Coordinator, the incumbent is responsible for preparing and finalizing exhibition designs for both the indoor and outdoor spaces, estimating costs, specifying materials and fabrication methods, and managing contracts while monitoring contractor progress. The Exhibit Coordinator also ensures proper fund allocation for assigned projects, maintains records, and develops maintenance schedules. Additionally, the incumbent represents CAAM’s mission in meetings with community and professional organizations, provides training to staff on exhibit development, and upholds best practices in exhibition design and implementation.

CAAM is a small department located in Los Angeles, south of Downtown Los Angeles within Exposition Park. We actively cultivate an inclusive atmosphere that embraces individuals from diverse backgrounds, cultures, and life journeys, empowering them to excel and flourish. We enthusiastically welcome your distinctive contributions to our organization and the meaningful work we undertake.

If you’re a detail-oriented professional with a passion for creating engaging exhibit designs, managing the logistics of exhibition installation, and ensuring the integrity of museum collections and traveling exhibitions, we invite you to apply. This position is full-time permanent. We especially encourage veterans and persons with disabilities to apply. To learn more about CAAM, visit our website caamuseum.org.

NOTE: This is a State of California job, and all applications must be submitted through the CalCareers portal. Be sure to review the Duty Statement and other downloadable materials listed with this job on CalCareers before submitting your application.

Salary: $6,160.00 – $7,651.00 per month

Benefits: For benefits information, visit the CalCareers website. 

Education requirements: Bachelor’s Degree

Deadline to apply: August 31, 2025 

Documents required to apply: Other

How to apply: This is a State of California job, and all applications must be submitted through the CalCareers portal, linked below. Be sure to review the Duty Statement and other downloadable materials listed with this job on CalCareers before submitting your application.

 

Co-Director, Stewardship

artsforla on July 7, 2025

About NAPA: National Arts Policy Alliance (NAPA) is a new initiative, incubated within United States Artists, dedicated to building collective power among creative and cultural workers to win policy reforms establishing cross-sectoral economic rights for all. NAPA believe all workers in and outside the creative sector deserve economic rights, including material needs like housing and health care, the right to fair work and pay, income security, freedom of creative expression, access to economic opportunity, a clean environment, and the ability for individuals and communities to shape their economic futures.  NAPA is committed to strengthening the necessary infrastructure – local organizing capacity, advocacy and policy resources, and cross-sector alliances – to win systemic reforms grounded in economic rights and justice.

What NAPA’s Building: Over the next 12–18 months, NAPA will support the development of at least seven local Assemblies—networks of creative and cultural workers developing grassroots campaigns to win economic rights in their communities. These Assemblies will receive funding and organizing support to build out local action plans. NAPA will also build a peer learning cohort, host national training, and produce key research and policy resources to support these local efforts. NAPA hopes this work will culminate in a National Creative & Cultural Workers Assembly in Fall 2026, where NAPA will assess progress and publish a shared agenda heading into a new political cycle. During this initial phase, priorities include:
• Supporting 7+ local Assemblies to launch advocacy campaigns focused on economic rights and security
• Delivering 2-3 national trainings and convening a learning cohort of Assembly leaders
• Publishing 2-4 field-wide research and policy resources
• Hosting a National Assembly to align around a shared agenda and strategy
• Building relationships with allies in the broader economic justice movement

To make this vision real, NAPA is hiring its first three team members, hired in the following order:
1. Co-Director, Organizing (hired ASAP)
2. Co-Director, Advocacy & Policy (hired Fall 2025)
3. Co-Director, Stewardship (hired Winter 2025)

These Co-Directors will work in a distributed leadership model, with shared decision-making power and distinct areas of responsibility aligned to NAPA’s strategy. In year one, they will be accountable to the CEO of United States Artists or their delegated representative. Over time, as NAPA becomes an independent entity, accountability and reporting will transition fully to the NAPA Stewardship Committee.

Role Summary: The Co-Director, Stewardship is responsible for internal and external accountability, decision-making processes, and sustainable resource management at NAPA. This includes fundraising, communications with stakeholders, and organizational learning and reflection. This person ensures that the way we do the work reflects the values that guide NAPA.

Key Responsibilities:
• Lead external communications with NAPA community via website, social, and email
• Facilitate open meetings and participatory decision-making processes
• Manage internal communications, including documentation and transparency
• Lead quarterly learning, reflection, and revision processes, including KPI tracking
• Coordinate annual priority setting and resource allocation
• Steward NAPA’s values across all decision-making
• Lead institutional stakeholder outreach and fundraising effort

Desired Qualifications:
• Experience with participatory and values-based leadership
• Strong facilitation, internal communication, and coordination skills
• Track record of successful fundraising and stakeholder cultivation
• Experience with agile project management, learning, and iterative practices
• Deep commitment to economic and cultural justice
• Strong relationship-building skills across stakeholders
• Proven ability to work across diverse communities, geographies, and contexts, with a strong commitment to racial, gender, economic, and social justice
• Collaborative leadership style with experience in collective decision-making, coalition leadership, and distributed team structures
• Self-motivated with the ability to manage multiple projects, meet high standards, and hold self and others accountable
• Excellent communication skills, including clear and concise writing
• Deep belief in the power of cultural workers to drive change
• Priority given to individuals from NAPA’s core constituencies of creative and cultural workers

Salary: $80,000 – $90,000, annually

Benefits: One-year contract, with expectation of renewal. Total time commitment is negotiable with expectation of timely deliverables, this position may be structured as a part time with benefits or a contracted position.

Education requirements: None.

Deadline to apply: November 22, 2025

Documents required to apply: Resume, cover letter

How to apply: Send a resume and short letter of interest explaining your connection to NAPA’s mission and how your experience aligns with the role to jobs@unitedstatesartists.org. Applications will be reviewed by a Hiring Committee assembled from NAPA’s Co-Design Team. We look forward to hearing from you!

Co-Director, Advocacy & Policy

artsforla on July 7, 2025

About NAPA: National Arts Policy Alliance (NAPA) is a new initiative, incubated within United States Artists, dedicated to building collective power among creative and cultural workers to win policy reforms establishing cross-sectoral economic rights for all. NAPA believes all workers in and outside the creative sector deserve economic rights, including material needs like housing and health care, the right to fair work and pay, income security, freedom of creative expression, access to economic opportunity, a clean environment, and the ability for individuals and communities to shape their economic futures.  NAPA is committed to strengthening the necessary infrastructure – local organizing capacity, advocacy and policy resources, and cross-sector alliances – to win systemic reforms grounded in economic rights and justice.

What NAPA’s Building: Over the next 12–18 months, NAPA will support the development of at least seven local Assemblies—networks of creative and cultural workers developing grassroots campaigns to win economic rights in their communities. These Assemblies will receive funding and organizing support to build out local action plans. NAPA will also build a peer learning cohort, host national training, and produce key research and policy resources to support these local efforts. NAPA hopes this work will culminate in a National Creative & Cultural Workers Assembly in Fall 2026, where NAPA will assess progress and publish a shared agenda heading into a new political cycle. During this initial phase, priorities include:
• Supporting 7+ local Assemblies to launch advocacy campaigns focused on economic rights
• Delivering 2-3 national trainings and convening a learning cohort of Assembly leaders
• Publishing 2-4 field-wide research and policy resources
• Hosting a National Assembly to align around a shared agenda and strategy
• Building relationships with allies in the broader economic justice movement

To make this vision real, NAPA is hiring its first three team members, hired in the following order:
1. Co-Director, Organizing (hired ASAP)
2. Co-Director, Advocacy & Policy (hired Fall 2025)
3. Co-Director, Stewardship (hired Winter 2025)

These Co-Directors will work in a distributed leadership model, with shared decision-making power and distinct areas of responsibility aligned to NAPA’s strategy. In year one, they will be accountable to the CEO of United States Artists or their delegated representative. Over time, as NAPA becomes an independent entity, accountability and reporting will transition fully to the NAPA Stewardship Committee. Role Summary: The Co-Director, Advocacy & Policy leads the development of research, policy, and campaign resources to support local Assemblies and national alignment. This role focuses on connecting NAPA’s network to ongoing economic rights efforts and producing tools to support the field.

Key Responsibilities:
• Lead stakeholder outreach to potential campaign and policy partners
• Map and build relationships with groups that are already doing research, advocacy, and policy work around economic rights, in and outside the arts
• Assemble and publish clearinghouse of relevant policy tools, data, and updates
• Produce new research and policy resources for NAPA stakeholders
• Track and share developments on key policy issues with NAPA community
• Support strategic alignment across local and national advocacy efforts Desired

Qualifications:
• Strong skills in policy research, analysis, and formulation
• Excellent communication skills, including clear and concise writing
• Knowledge of economic rights policy issues (e.g., housing, income security, labor rights) and stakeholders
• Ability to translate policy into accessible tools for organizers and advocates
• Demonstrated success crafting effective advocacy collateral, such as issue briefs, fact sheets, talking points, op-eds, and other forms of persuasive policy writing
• Experience working in or alongside campaigns and coalitions
• Strong relationship-building skills across government, institutional, and cross-sector stakeholders
• Proven ability to work across diverse communities, geographies, and contexts, with a strong commitment to racial, gender, economic, and social justice
• Collaborative leadership style with experience in collective decision-making, coalition leadership, and distributed team structures
• Self-motivated with the ability to manage multiple projects, meet high standards, and hold self and others accountable
• Deep belief in the power of cultural workers to drive change
• Priority given to individuals from NAPA’s core constituencies of creative and cultural workers

Salary: $80,000 – $90,000 annually

Benefits: One-year contract, with expectation of renewal. Total time commitment is negotiable with expectation of timely 3deliverables, this position may be structured as a part time with benefits or a contracted position.

Education requirements: None.

Deadline to apply: October 4, 2025

Documents required to apply: Resume, cover letter

How to apply: Send a resume and short letter of interest explaining your connection to NAPA’s mission and how your experience aligns with the role to jobs@unitedstatesartists.org. Applications will be reviewed by a Hiring Committee assembled from NAPA’s Co-Design Team.

Lead Fabricator

artsforla on July 2, 2025

Position Title: Lead Fabricator
Company: Dyson & Womack Studio
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Job Type: Full-Time
Reports To: Principal / Studio Director

About Dyson & Womack
Dyson & Womack is a leading art fabrication and consulting studio based in Los Angeles, specializing in large-scale public artworks, custom fabrication, and culturally impactful commissions. We work at the intersection of contemporary art, architecture, and public space—bringing ambitious ideas to life through thoughtful collaboration, technical expertise, and a commitment to excellence.

Position Overview
Dyson & Womack are seeking a skilled and collaborative Lead Fabricator to join our small but high-performing studio team. This is a hands-on leadership role—perfect for someone who thrives on the floor, is confident managing complex builds, and enjoys working closely with both project managers and fellow fabricators.

As Lead Fabricator, you’ll help plan and execute fabrication workflows, maintain quality control, troubleshoot production challenges, and serve as a key liaison between the shop and the project management team. Your leadership will shape the success of each project, while your technical skill and experience will keep the work moving forward on the floor.

Key Responsibilities
Hands-On Fabrication: Lead by example in the shop—working across materials, processes, and tools to support complex builds and installations.

Project Liaison: Serve as the bridge between fabrication staff and project managers—translating drawings, tracking progress, and flagging issues proactively.

Workflow Coordination: Help scope production timelines, delegate tasks to junior fabricators, and support daily planning in the shop.

Quality Control: Maintain high standards across all fabrication processes and ensure all work aligns with technical drawings and client expectations.

Technical Problem-Solving: Collaborate with the team to resolve material, structural, and logistical challenges as they arise.

Mentorship: Support skill development for junior fabricators and promote a culture of collaboration, learning, and safety.

Qualifications
5+ years of experience in custom fabrication, public art, scenic construction, design-build, or a related field

Proficiency in working with metals (welding), wood, plastics, or composites (multi-material experience preferred)

Ability to read and interpret technical drawings and shop plans

Comfort with hand tools, power tools, shop equipment, and fabrication machinery

Strong communication skills and a collaborative work style

Experience coordinating with project managers, designers, or engineers

Ability to lift 50+ lbs and work safely in a physically active shop environment

CAD design experience is a plus

Additional Information
This is an in-person role based out of our Los Angeles studio. Occasional travel to installation sites may be required.

Dyson & Womack is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity in all its forms. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply.

Salary: $70,000 – $75,000, annually

Benefits: 
Health stipend

Paid vacation and holidays

Opportunities for professional development

Creative and supportive studio environment

Education requirements: Bachelor’s degree

Deadline to apply: August 8, 2025

Documents required to apply: Resume, Cover Letter, Work Sample/Portfolio

How to apply: Email a current resume or CV and a portfolio of completed works. Interested candidates are also encouraged to include a written introduction to themselves that highlights their relevant experience and their interest in working at Dyson & Womack in the body of the email. Please include contact details in the resume or CV.

Information should be emailed to info@dysonwomack.com with the subject header “Lead Fabricator.”

Only qualified candidates selected for the interview process will be contacted. Dyson & Womack may retain applicant cover letters and resumes for future job opportunities.

Executive Director

artsforla on June 26, 2025

Visionary Executive Leadership Opportunity in the Non-Profit Arts

About the Painted Bride Art Center

Who the Painted Bride Is
The Painted Bride Art Center—known to many Philadelphians simply as The Bride—is a nonprofit producing and presenting arts organization with over five decades of radical imagination and cultural stewardship.
Founded in 1969 in a former bridal shop on South Street, the Bride emerged as part of the national Alternative Space movement, offering a vital platform for artists traditionally excluded from museums and commercial venues. From its earliest days, The Bride has served as a cultural trailhead for underrepresented voices—women, people of color, LGBTQ+ creatives, disabled artists—and continues to ask: What do artists and communities need now?

The Bride has always been more than a venue. It’s a living, evolving platform for interdisciplinary creation, civic dialogue, and collective transformation. From legendary performances to neighborhood based rituals, from early hip-hop showcases to community-based healing rituals, The Bride creates the conditions for honest exchange, joyful disruption, and cultural reimagining.

What the Painted Bride is
The Painted Bride develops and presents boundary-pushing programs that center art as a catalyst for dialogue, reflection, and belonging. Through its rotating Programming Committee—a paid cohort of artists, thinkers, and community members— The Bride co-creates experiences with, not just for, the
people it serves. This model ensures that programming is not only innovative, but accountable, inclusive, and relevant.

More than a presenter, The Bride is a creative collaborator—working shoulder-to-shoulder with artists to workshop ideas, forge partnerships, engage communities, and bring new work to life. Programs span performance, visual art, jazz, social practice, civic ritual, education, and more. Signature projects have included Power to the Prompt, Resistance Garden, Off the Wall, and Building Bridges: On the Rise—each inviting Philadelphians to reimagine shared space, voice, and purpose.

Since its founding, The Bride has supported over 25,000 artists, commissioned more than 100 new works, and presented over 5,000 events. Its alumni include cultural icons such as James Baldwin, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Zakir Hussain, Spalding Gray, Toni Morrison, Ursula Rucker, The Roots, and Rennie Harris.

Why the Bride?
At a time of transformation—across the sector, across the city—the Painted Bride remains a place of purpose. Following the sale of its longtime Vine Street building in 2022, The Bride has become more mobile, nimble, and community-embedded than ever. With its newly launched Project Space in West
Philadelphia, an invested endowment, and an active network of citywide partners, The Bride is poised to model a new kind of cultural institution: rooted in care, co-creation, and collective wisdom. Leading the Bride means stewarding both a remarkable legacy and a living experiment. The next Executive Director will join an organization that honors its past while boldly inviting the future—one that welcomes the challenge of building equity not only into what it programs, but into how it operates. The Bride doesn’t just reflect culture, it helps remake it. For those who believe that art can transform lives and neighborhoods, the question is not why The Bride?—but what’s next?

Mission
Painted Bride is an artist-driven organization supporting the conception, development, and presentation of socially resonant work by mobilizing the creative process with respect, integrity, and care.

About the Opportunity
The Painted Bride seeks a visionary leader to take charge of our historic legacy and shape our vibrant future as a uniquely artists-centered organization.
Job Title: Executive Director
Reports to: Board of Directors

Responsibilities
Artistic Vision and Programming
The Executive Director is responsible for establishing and implementing The Bride’s artistic vision. The Executive Director will:
● Develop strategic partnerships with a diverse pool of artists and organizations that create a network that addresses the needs of our cultural community and our city.
● Develop artistic initiatives and program goals in collaboration with the program committee.
● Advocate for artists and seek support for them in organizations at the local and national levels, both private and public.
● Participate in local and national networks of like-minded arts organizations.
● Provide leadership to the Program Committee and Program Manager to align with the Painted Brides values and goals.
Strategic Vision and Leadership
Assess The Bride’s opportunities for growth and impact centered on its mission and align its artisticdirection accordingly towards a visionary new future state that can continuously evolve and inspire.
● Create and support a global ecosystem of independent and emerging artists in Philadelphia and beyond.
● Inspire and engage stakeholders as the chief spokesperson and ambassador for the organization.
● Serve as a committed, visionary, and accessible leader with a consistent and deep connection to the organization’s stakeholders including artists, staff, board, donors, funders, audiences and community members.
● Proactively maintain knowledge about best standards and practices in the ever-evolving performance presentation and arts management fields.
Fundraising and Financial Oversight
The Executive Director serves as the chief financial steward of the organization, responsible for ensuring fiscal health, sustainability, and accountability. This includes overseeing all aspects of financial management and ensuring that the organization operates within a sound, transparent framework.
● Develop and oversee fundraising plans that reflect emerging trends and opportunities in the arts and culture landscape.
● Build and nurture relationships with foundations and individual donors proactively.
● Oversee financial planning and well-being of the organization and ensure transparency, integrity, and accuracy in all financial reporting.
● In collaboration with the Board Treasurer and the finance team, develop and recommend a sustainable (i.e., balanced) annual budget that advances the year’s objectives, and remain ultimately responsible for the appropriate expenditure of that budget.
● Develop and execute fundraising strategies that align with the organization’s artistic mission and fiscal goals.
● Explore and implement innovative business models, including earned income opportunities.
Community Engagement and Partnership Development
The Executive Director is responsible for developing strong relationships with a wide variety of= stakeholders, current and future, including audiences, other arts organizations, artists, the Board, local businesses, funders, and other relevant parties.
● Develop relationships with venues and partners for collaboration.
● Research, produce, and present programming with diverse organizations that share The Bride’s mission to nurture artists.

Team Management and Culture Building
Build upon a supportive workplace culture that values respect, collaboration, and innovation with structures that will ensure accountability.

● Hire, support, and evaluate professional and support staff and external consultants.
● Execute forward-thinking policies that ensure a healthy workplace that embraces equity, diversity, and inclusion.
● Supervise the operations, development, programming, marketing, and administrative teams.
● Encourage self-initiative, collaboration, and accountability among the staff and provide staff members with professional growth opportunities.
● Cultivate board members and their connections to secure future vitality and community relevance.
Board Collaboration and Development
In collaboration with the Board of Directors, establish and nurture policies and long-term goals that are consistent with the organization’s mission and finances.
● Work with the Board to identify and secure adequate financial resources for The Bride to accomplish its goals and objectives. Monitor changes in financial resources to ensure funding for those goals or, in the event of an anticipated budgetary shortfall, make the necessary programmatic reductions.
● Make recommendations to the Board regarding the Bride’s annual and long-term goals, its annual programmatic plans and needs, annual fiscal plans and needs, and the hiring and management of staff and external consultants.
● Assist the Board as needed with meetings, recruitment, committees, fundraising, etc.

Attributes, Qualifications + Skills
The Executive Director must be a dynamic thinker and leader who brings bold ideas and a creative approach to strategic planning.
● The ability to develop and communicate an inspiring vision that engages stakeholders.
● Strong ties to the arts community, with a demonstrated ability to engage authentically with diverse audiences and partners.
● Skilled at bridging the needs of artists and funders with care, empathy, and professionalism.
● Minimum of 5–10 years of leadership experience in the nonprofit or arts sector.
● Proven ability to lead teams, fundraise effectively, and manage complex organizational structures.
● Demonstrated cultural competency and experience working within or alongside BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and underrepresented communities.
● Preferably an artist or individual with deep care for the artistic process and artist experience.
● Strong commitment to ethical leadership, equity, and adaptive change.

Salary: $110 – $120,000, annually

Benefits: The benefits package includes Health, dental and eye with dependent coverage; Retirement match at 5% of salary; Professional development for meetings, events, travel; Up to 4 weeks paid vacation annually.

Education requirements:

Deadline to apply: September 1, 2025

Documents required to apply: Resume, Cover Letter

How to apply: Send resume and cover letter to administrator@criterionsg.com

Glass Leading Apprentice

artsforla on June 23, 2025

Henrii is seeking a Glass Leading Apprentice—a budding craftsman with a steady hand, a discerning eye, and passion for the craft.

This apprenticeship is both a place of learning and a path of mastering. You will work alongside experienced makers and designers, learning the process of transforming raw materials into handcrafted lighting objects and contributing to both production and prototyping. From the precise cutting and taping of glass to the careful preparation of pieces for soldering, you will play a vital role in shaping the foundation of our creations to help ensure each piece reflects both structural integrity and aesthetic intention.

The role is designed for those who believe that craft is a discipline and a dedication. It is for those who see value in repetition as refinement, and in the quiet dialogue between hand and material. You’ll contribute meaningfully to the studio while developing a skill set that anchors future mastery.

The Glass Leading Apprenticeship is a 1-Month Intensive, with the intention of a transition to a full time role in Henrii’s Glass Department.

Salary: $19 – $23, hourly

Benefits: 
Vision insurance
401(k)
Dental insurance
Health insurance

Education requirements: None.

Deadline to apply: September 30, 2025

Documents required to apply: Resume, Cover Letter, References, Work Sample/Portfolio

How to apply: Submit application through this page.

Project Manager, Core Renewal

artsforla on June 20, 2025

The Skirball Cultural Center seeks a Project Manager who will support day-to-day coordination of administrative, audio-visual, architectural, and engineering details for the Skirball Museum’s reimagined core exhibition. Slated to open in Spring 2029, this is a time-limited position that will run through Fall 2030. Requiring a high level of administrative experience and coordination, this position reports to the Project Director, Core Renewal. Working closely with the Senior Vice President of Operations and external exhibition designers, architects, engineers, and other specialty consultants, the Project Manager coordinates the integration of the renewed core exhibition with the Skirball Cultural Center’s existing operations.

Salary: $85,000, annually (DOE)

Benefits: 
403(b) plan (with employer match)

Health insurance with optional FSA

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Paid sick leave

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Free entry and access to Skirball programs/exhibits

Parental leave

EAP

Life insurance

AD&D and long-term disability insurance

Free entry to other museums through the museum reciprocity program

Employee discount

Education requirements: High School diploma

Deadline to apply: August 31, 2025

Documents required to apply: Resume, Cover Letter, References

How to apply: Send resume, cover letter, and references by email, to:
Human Resources
Subject line: Re: Project Director, Core Renewal
hr@skirball.org

LAUNCH:LA Artist Residency Program

artsforla on June 17, 2025

Founded in 2021, LAUNCH:LA is a residency program aimed at supporting Los Angeles’s emerging dance makers by lifting the economic burden that goes into the creation of a new work. Our selected artists are provided the space, time, monetary support, and platform to have their work seen and celebrated by a wider audience. Designed for early-career, L.A.-based dance-centered artists, applicants from all backgrounds, disciplines, and abilities are encouraged to apply, particularly those from groups historically underrepresented in the space.

Each LAUNCH:LA artist receives three weeks of rehearsal space to create new dance-centered work on their own dancers and collaborators that is presented to audiences in LADP’s performance theater at the culmination of the residency.

Residency Components:

– Applicants must be early-career, dance-centered artists who spend the majority of their time living and creating work in Los Angeles. Applicants from all backgrounds, disciplines, and abilities are encouraged to apply, particularly those from groups historically underrepresented in the field. Those currently enrolled full-time in college or university dance programs are not eligible to apply.

– Applicants are encouraged to submit proposals for interdisciplinary collaborative projects that combine dance with technology, visual art, music, or other mediums of artistic expression. Proposals that include work intended to be viewed in the round are highly encouraged.

– The program supports 2 projects in their early stages of development. Proposed projects should not have been previously premiered.

– The program provides selected artists with 3 weeks to dive into a generative process that will culminate in the premiere and presentation of the new work in 4 shared-bill performances at 2245.

The residency period is September 2, 2025 – September 21, 2025. Residency hours will take place:

Week 1: Tuesday – Saturday, 9:30am-5:30pm
Week 2: Monday – Friday, 9:30am-5:30pm
Week 3: Monday – Sunday, times will shift to accommodate tech and dress rehearsals plus the performances

Salary: $5,750 stipend

Benefits:
– Selected artists will receive 3 weeks of rehearsal space in LADP’s studios to create work on their own dancers and collaborators.

– A stipend of $3,000 for the selected artist plus a $2,750 production stipend, which includes the use of LAUNCH:LA’s lighting designer, to be used at the artists’ discretion to aid in compensating dancers and collaborators and/or production needs such as scenic, sound, and costume design.

– The opportunity to share and discuss the works-in-progress through open rehearsals with Q&As and the chance to get feedback from a creator(s) in LADP’s network of artists.

– The opportunity to present their new work in 4 fully produced, shared-bill performances that will be hosted and promoted by L.A. Dance Project.

Education requirements: None.

Deadline to apply: September 21, 2025

Documents required to apply: Resume, References, Work Sample/Portfolio

How to apply: Submit the materials as one PDF attachment, if possible. Hyperlinks to video work samples are preferred over files that are direct downloads. If necessary, please include any passwords needed to access submitted materials.

– Contact Information (Name/company, email, phone, address, website, and designated contact person)

– Resume/CV and Headshot

– Bio (Please submit for all key collaborators)

– Project Description (700 words or less on the proposed work including imagined production elements as well as a description of the applicant’s creative process)

– Statement of Intent (300 words or less on the applicant’s goals for the residency)

– References (Please provide the contact information for 2 professional references)

– Proposed Project Budget (Please show intended allocation of the $2,750 production stipend funds, keeping a $250 line item for contingencies)

– Work Samples (A small digital portfolio highlighting recent work including videos, photos, reviews etc)

Submission:

Applications should be submitted to residencies@ladanceproject.org. The application period opens on June 10, 2025 and the deadline for submission is 11:59pm PDT on July 6, 2025. Any applications received outside of the application period will not be considered.

Need Help?

For help or inquiries, please email the Director of Artist Residency Program Rachelle Rafailedes Mucha at residencies@ladanceproject.org.