Arts & Business Council of Greater BostonFellowship

Creative Entrepreneur Fellowship (CEF) 2027

Oct 13, 2026 23:59:00 ET

Opportunity type

Fellowship

Funding

Partially Funded

Location

United States

Deadline

Oct 13, 2026 23:59:00 ET

About this opportunity

The Creative Entrepreneur Fellowship is a customised professional development programme run by the Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston. It selects a small cohort of eight to ten artists and creative solopreneurs each year, and pairs them with one-on-one coaching, skills-training seminars and a stipend for business purchases. Now in its 14th year, coaching and teaching are delivered in both English and Spanish.

What you get:

Personalised goal setting with programme staff
One-on-one coaching and technical assistance
Skills-training seminars
A stipend for business-related purchases (amount not published)
Resources available in English and Spanish
Access to a 14-year alumni network of working artists

What you'll do:

Sit through a competitive application, with semi-finalists interviewed
Attend an information session in mid-September 2026
Join the cohort programme running December 2026 through June 2027
Work with a coach to build your creative practice as a business

Who can apply

Individual artists or creative solopreneurs (not organisations)
Working to build a professional creative practice
Open across disciplines: visual, craft, performing, writing and more
Comfortable working in English or Spanish
No age range or nationality requirement is stated on the programme page

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Good to know

+14 years of continuous cohorts with a documented alumni list published on the org's own page
+Free to apply (Submittable form shows no submission fee on the listing or form page)
+Deadline confirmed on two organisation-owned sources: the CEF page, the 2027 English call PDF, and the Submittable form itself (Tue, Oct 13, 2026 11:59 PM)
+Bilingual delivery (English and Spanish) widens access
+Clear and specific cohort model with a public timeline and interview stage

Worth checking yourself

!Stipend amount for business purchases is not disclosed on the programme page or the 2027 call PDFs
!The programme page does not state a hard residency requirement, but delivery is based in Boston (89 South Street) and past cohorts appear locally rooted; treat this as implicitly regional
!Funding set as Partially Funded because a stipend is offered but its amount and scope (business purchases only) are not comprehensive; the programme itself is free to participate in with no stated tuition
!Application runs on Submittable rather than a form hosted on the org's own domain

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About this opportunity

What you get:

Personalised goal setting with programme staff
One-on-one coaching and technical assistance
Skills-training seminars
A stipend for business-related purchases (amount not published)
Resources available in English and Spanish
Access to a 14-year alumni network of working artists

What you'll do:

Sit through a competitive application, with semi-finalists interviewed
Attend an information session in mid-September 2026
Join the cohort programme running December 2026 through June 2027
Work with a coach to build your creative practice as a business