Jewish Arts and Culture at CJP

As an investor and convener, CJP is committed to supporting a rich and vibrant Jewish arts and culture community within Greater Boston. We support Jewish artists and arts organizations through fellowships, grants, and partnerships, and by fostering engagement with this work throughout our community.  

Arts and culture can powerfully connect us to Jewishness and to one another; bring us into deep and challenging conversations; and illuminate and preserve Jewish experience and memory. Through this work, we will celebrate, heal, and engage with the world.  

We are excited to explore and appreciate the beauty of Jewish arts and culture, together.  

What are we working on? 

Community Creative Fellowship 

• A partnership with The Vilna Shul, this Fellowship gives artists in the Greater Boston area the opportunity to create, learn, and engage with the community.
• Meet the 2025 Community Creative Fellows.
• Currently, applications for the Community Creative Fellowship are closed. Details about future opportunities will be announced in the spring of 2026.

CJP Arts and Culture Community Impact Grant Fund​  

CJP is continuing to invest in our local artists!  Click here for information on our FY25 cohort of Arts and Culture Community Impact Grant Fund grantees.

Created in 2020, the grant pool supports artistic endeavors that:

• Embraces the diversity and complexity of Jewish identity, community, and tradition
• Sparks questions, fosters curiosity, or invites communal dialogue on a range of topics both within the Jewish community and/or across diverse communities  
• Creatively interprets or reinvents Jewish teachings, ritual, tradition, or Jewish life

Explore projects from our past grantees here.

The 2025-2026 Art and Culture Community Impact Grant Fund is now closed.  

The information about this year’s recipients will be announced in the winter.  The 2026-2027 Arts and Culture Community Impact Grant Fund will open in August 2026.  If you have any questions, please contact Anna.