Arts and Culture Initiative

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 Jewish Arts Collaborative, this Fellowship gives artists in the Greater Boston area the opportunity to create, learn, and engage with the community.
• Meet the 2024 Community Creative Fellows
• Applications for the fifth cohort of JArts and CJP’s Community Creative Fellowship are now open. The deadline to apply is Friday, September 20, 2024. This fellowship is designed to support four local creatives who are looking to explore Jewish identity through arts and/or culture and seek to develop a meaningful community engagement residency within the local Jewish community. Click here to learn more.  Click here to apply.  

CJP Arts and Culture Community Impact Grant Fund​  

CJP is continuing to invest in our local artists!  Click here for information on our FY24 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

The 2024-2025 Art and Culture Community Impact Grant Fund is now open! 

We are now accepting Letters of Intent (LOIs) for CJP’s Arts and Culture Community Impact Grant Fund. LOIs are due by 5:00pm EST on Monday, September 30, 2024. Please click here to learn more about the guidelines and how to apply.  If you have any questions, please contact Anna Leybzon, Administrator, Engagement, at AnnaL@cjp.org.