Boston Center for the Arts

OPEN CALL: BCA Playwright Residency! Apply by Sunday, 8/4. Boston Center for the Arts is accepting applications for our 2024-2025 BCA Playwright Residency. We will be accepting two playwrights this year. The residency is a year-long process that will begin September 2024 and end September 2025. Apply here: https://lnkd.in/eeNK8Xdr The BCA Playwright Residency supports rising playwrights by providing space to write, rehearse, and workshop a new work. Support is tailored to the selected artist, including mentorship, professional development to create, produce and reach expanded audiences, as well as further their creative process. This program aims to provide a container for playwrights who are invested in developing experimental work that sheds light on underrepresented stories and narratives. The playwright must create a new work while in the program. #BostonArts #BosArts #Boston #BostonTheatre #BostonTheater #BostonPlaywright #PlaywrightResidency #Playwright #NewPlay

Thanks to all who came to our recent opening for the BCA 27th Drawing Show: Yušká: Uncoil, curated by Erin Genia (@emgenia on IG). We want to share some pics from the day and some of the artwork that makes this show stunning! Haven't see it yet? Come and enjoy the exhibition yourself. The BCA 27th Drawing Show: Yušká: Uncoil runs through August 3, Wednesday–Saturday, 1–6pm — except the week of July 4 when we are closed. We could not do this important work without the support of BCA community members like you. Please consider making a gift by June 30 to ensure that BCA can continue to amplify and celebrate Boston’s unique artistic voices. Donate here: https://lnkd.in/eChMpxb4. Photos: Melissa Blackall Photography #BosArts #BostonArts #BostonExhibition #BostonArtist #VisualArts #Boston

Are you our new Senior Accountant? We are hiring, join us! Apply here: https://lnkd.in/eKQHjpJ4 #BostonJobs #AccountingJobs #ArtJobs #ArtsAdministration #Boston #BosArts #BostonArts

BCA Receives $10,000 award from TD Charitable Foundation to support Artist Residencies Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) is delighted to be a recipient of a $10,000 grant awarded by TD Charitable Foundation, the philanthropic arm of TD Bank, to support BCA artist residencies. The grant is part of the TD Charitable Foundation’s TD Ready Commitment portfolio and marks the first time BCA has received this award. The foundation's support of BCA allows the organization to help further direct resources to Boston-area artists. BCA is where Boston artists create — through BCA's long- and short-term residency programs, BCA is able to provide artists in the visual, dance and movement, multidisciplinary, and theatre arts, a rare but essential need every artist has: the ability to think, explore, experiment, and push their creative practice forward. This grant from the TD Charitable Foundation is also especially welcome as it will help counter the ongoing crisis of affordable artists’ studio space in the Boston area as they create new groundbreaking work. "TD is committed to initiatives that expand inclusion efforts in the arts for all of our community members,” said Sheryl McQuade, Regional President, Metro New England, TD Bank. “We are proud to be part of what Boston Center for the Arts is doing to help artists in our community access affordable studio spaces and remove barriers to create more cultural opportunities for all." *** ABOUT THE TD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION The TD Charitable Foundation is the charitable giving arm of TD Bank, America's Most Convenient Bank®, one of the 10 largest banks in the U.S., providing over 9.8 million customers with a full range of retail, small business and commercial banking products and services at more than 1,100 convenient locations throughout the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Metro D.C., the Carolinas and Florida. Since its inception in 2002, the Foundation has distributed over $323 million through donations to local nonprofits from Maine to Florida. More information on the TD Charitable Foundation is available at https://lnkd.in/d-a-8Eq

Happening on April 8 in the BCA Cyclorama! #HellaBlack Vol 6: Sacred — curated by Amanda Shea featuring 9 artists, a vendor market, DJ set, photo booths, and more. Get your tickets before they sell out: https://lnkd.in/dk7TXCNs Portraits by Colgan B. Johnson/1981andCo

The deadline to apply is THIS Sunday, March 31 at 11pm — OPEN CALL: BCA Studio Residency, funded by Wagner Foundation. This year — thanks to generous support from Wagner Foundation — artists selected for the Fall 2024 Studio Residency program will receive fully awarded studio space for a maximum term of 33 months, from September 15, 2024–June 15, 2027. The 2024 BCA Studio Resident cohort, funded by Wagner Foundation, allows us to make real strides in the work of creating greater equity and opportunity to Boston-area artists for whom financial support and artistic community come at a catalytic moment in their practice. Selection of this 2024 BCA Studio Residency cohort of artists will be based on artists’ demonstration of the financial as well as artistic impact of a fully awarded studio on their practice. Apply: https://lnkd.in/e4pX2tjY #BosArts #BostonArts #VisualArt #ArtistResidency #ArtResidency #Boston #ResidencyOpenCall #OpenCallForArtists Photo: Melissa Blackall

Two weeks left! Become a 2024–2025 BCA Studio Resident fully funded by Wagner Foundation — apply by March 31: https://lnkd.in/e4pX2tjY Photo: Melissa Blackall #BosArts #BostonArts #Boston #ArtsResidency #VisualArts #VisualArtsResidency #BostonArtist #BostonArtists

We have some news! As you know, since 2019 Kristi Keefe and Emily Foster Day have been Co-Executive Directors of BCA. But this April, Kristi Keefe will become our Chief Executive Officer, while Emily Day will transition to Massachusetts College of Art and Design to assume the role of Vice President of Advancement and Executive Director of the MassArt Foundation. As Co-Executive Directors, Kristi and Emily have overcome many challenges, most profoundly the COVID-19 pandemic. Through their leadership, BCA successfully weathered those trying times, and then led our efforts to safely reopen BCA to artists and the public. Kristi has been at BCA for over 20 years, serving as Interim Director in 2016, Chief Operating Officer from 2016–2019, and Co-Executive Director since 2019. Kristi will assume the role of Chief Executive Officer on April 12, 2024, and will continue to lead us in better aligning our physical spaces with the needs of our evolving residencies and programs so we can ensure that all of Boston’s artists continue to thrive. Over Emily’s nine-year tenure, she has made BCA stronger. She has overseen the creation and expansion of a number of innovative residencies and programs, dramatically helped increase philanthropic support, and — together with Kristi — has brought our mission into alignment with the values of racial and cultural equity that we aspire to center in all that we do. We are very grateful for her leadership in countless ways, and wish Emily the very best for the future. We are also thrilled to welcome Zaquia Mahler Salinas as our Senior Director of Artist Programs & Residencies. Zaquia joins us as the fourth member of the senior leadership team. This team will support Kristi during this leadership transition. Zaquia will also play a key role aligning the strategic vision of the organization with BCA programs, all while centering the professional needs of Boston-based performing and visual artists. Please join us in congratulating Kristi, Emily, and Zaquia on their new positions. Photos: Carlie Febo; Kirk Hensler. #BosArts #BostonArts

Cultivate Change with Your Support! This March, BCA is launching a special month-long campaign to provide sustaining support for our organization now and for the future. Help us cultivate artistic expression and continue to grow as a thriving cultural hub for Boston artists. Why Monthly Giving Matters: Support through monthly donations helps BCA plan ahead for exciting exhibitions, performances, and community programs. Your commitment today ensures a steady foundation for our artists and residencies to flourish! 🌼 Exclusive Giveaways for Sustaining Supporters March 1-31 🌼 The first 100 donors to make a monthly gift of $5 or more will receive a gift packet of native Massachusetts pollinator seeds — a token of our gratitude for your commitment to helping Boston arts continue to blossom! For monthly gifts $50+, in addition to the pollinator seeds, you'll receive a limited edition purple BCA tote bag! Visit https://lnkd.in/eXjWjf_f to set up your monthly gift today. Select your preferred monthly amount, and become part of the growing community that sustains our artistic vision. Seeds and BCA tote bags will be mailed out in early April.

BCA awarded $300,000 by Wagner Foundation to fully fund 2024 BCA Studio Resident cohort! Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) is thrilled to announce a $300,000 grant from Wagner Foundation to support the BCA Studio Residency program for the next three years. Beginning as early as this fall, this pivotal funding will allow BCA to begin the shift from a subsidized, fee-based residency program to one that is fully awarded. Boston-area artists are welcome to take advantage of this generous grant by applying to the current open call to become one of the ten members of the 2024 BCA Studio Residency cohort, funded by Wagner Foundation over the next three years. The deadline to apply is March 31 at 11pm. This grant now drastically lowers barriers for Boston-area artists to access the critical resources BCA provides. The grant fully underwrites ten studio spaces — a first in the 50+ year history of BCA — and will deepen professional development opportunities for artist residents beginning in 2024. The Wagner award is a crucial first step in the effort by BCA to raise $1.5m over three years to fully award all 41 studio residencies and create a runway that ensures future sustainability for this essential program. “We are thrilled to support the Boston Center for the Arts on this initiative to broaden access to their studio program and to expand the programming at the Boston Art Book Fair. At Wagner Foundation, we recognize that the housing affordability crisis in Boston is affecting artists’ ability to stay and thrive in our communities, and that access to studio space and opportunities to share work in community is a critically needed component,” said Charlotte Wagner, Founder & President of Wagner Foundation. She added, “We are grateful for the vision and long-term commitment BCA has to Boston’s working artists and look forward to what this partnership brings.” BCA Co-Executive Director Emily Day expressed her excitement and gratitude for Wagner Foundation's support: "This catalytic award is a game-changer for us. It empowers us to reach new heights in our mission to provide essential professional development resources to Boston-area artists at pivotal moments in their career. We are deeply thankful to Wagner Foundation for their belief in our work and their commitment to contemporary artists and arts in Boston." BCA has a rich history of fostering artistic communities through a diverse array of arts programs, events, and initiatives. From supporting early career artists to promoting cultural equity, BCA has consistently demonstrated its dedication to making the arts accessible for artists and audiences alike. And now, the Wagner Foundation grant strengthens what BCA continues to do: to fill a vital need for affordable work space and other resources for Boston artists through its artistic and space subsidy programs. Apply today to join the 2024 BCA Studio Residency cohort funded by Wagner Foundation: https://lnkd.in/e4pX2tjY