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Ongoing Opportunities

  • Friday, October 9, 2026
    5:00–9:00 PM
    Mulberry Commons
    Newark, NJ 07102

    Mark your calendars! FALL NIGHT FEST, Newark's evening makers festival, returns on Friday, October 9, transforming Mulberry Commons into an evening filled with art, music, food, and hands-on creativity under the night sky.

    Presented by Newark Grounds, led by PES in partnership with the Newark City Parks Foundation and the Newark Art Festival, the festival invites artists, families, neighbors, and visitors of all ages to gather for an evening of making, learning, and celebrating creativity. Throughout the park, participants can enjoy free workshops, artist demonstrations, live performances, and more!

    Call for Makers

    We are seeking 10 artists and makers to lead interactive, drop-in art-making activities during the festival. We welcome artists, educators, craftspeople, and creative practitioners who enjoy sharing their skills through engaging, hands-on experiences that are accessible to participants of all ages and experience levels.

    Selected makers will receive a $250 honorarium to facilitate their activity. We welcome proposals from artists working across a wide range of creative practices, including book arts, ceramics, cyanotypes, fiber arts, glassblowing demonstrations, kite-making, mixed-media projects, mural arts, paper arts, printmaking, textile arts, zine-making, and other participatory art forms that encourage creativity, experimentation, and community engagement.

    In addition to leading a workshop, selected makers are invited to sell small handmade artworks, editions, crafts, and other affordable art objects from their workshop space during the festival. Artist are selected on a rolling basis through September 13th. 

    Apply Here

  • Newark Artists is a free platform that was developed to highlight and celebrate artists whose creative practices are locally rooted. This database acknowledges the artist’s crucial role in this city. Additionally, it serves as a way to invest in, and support our creative community. Newark Artists is more than an index of artists: it is a community, hub, and home for creatives in the Greater Newark Area. The platform includes artist profiles, an arts organization directory, and a continuously updated list of opportunities for creative practitioners. It is a resource for artists, as well as those who seek to learn more about the Newark Art Scene.

    Originally conceived in 2018, Newark Artists was a community situated in the virtual space. Launched in 2020, as we navigated a global pandemic that kept many of us inside and apart, we saw this resource as a new way to connect and keep the artist community thriving. In addition to the website, a series of free virtual professional development programs are collaboratively produced with local organizations and practitioners. This website is powered by Project for Empty Space as an effort to serve artists and audiences of Newark.

    Learn More & Apply HERE.

  • BODY FREEDOM FOR EVERY(BODY) is not only an exhibition but a cultural movement around bodily autonomy, freedom of expression, and community building. This work takes place both in physical space and in the digital realm.

    Our hope with the Body Freedom Database is to build community by sharing artwork of any discipline—visual art, poetry, essays, music, dance, film, and more—and letting that artwork prompt conversation and camaraderie. We invite you to contribute your voice and your vision. We welcome artists across all mediums who are passionate about using their art to challenge, educate, and provoke dialogue on bodily autonomy and identity.

    Learn More & Apply HERE.