How to Post an Opportunity on Culturalyst
Posting an opportunity adds it to your community's public opportunity directory, where artists can find and apply to it. This walkthrough covers creating the listing, setting who it reaches, and pushing it live.
Click on the video below for a walk-through for posting an opportunity
Step 1: Navigate to Your Opportunities Dashboard
Log in to your Culturalyst account.
Click Opportunities in your left side navigation. This dashboard is where you manage every opportunity you post.
Click Add New to start a listing.
Step 2: Add the Basics
Cover Image: Uploads use a 16:9 aspect ratio. Use the zoom controls to crop your photo so it displays well.
Title*: A clear, concise name for the opportunity.
Audience*: Indicate who the opportunity is for (for example, artists).
Application URL: Where applicants go to apply.
Step 3: Set Your Scope
This is the most important field on the form. Scope determines which artists are eligible for the opportunity and, in turn, where it shows up.
Ask yourself: which artists should be able to apply? Select the smallest scope that's accurate.
Choosing a city, like Dallas, limits the listing to artists in that community.
Choosing United States means every artist in the country can apply. Only select this if that's genuinely true of your opportunity.
Discipline*: Select the artistic disciplines this is open to ā for example, visual artists working in sculpture. You can select more than one.
Step 4: Set Dates and Opportunity Type
Start Date and Time*: When applications open.
Close Date*: The application deadline.
Time Zone*: Set this so deadlines display accurately for applicants.
Opportunity Type*: Select the category that fits ā Call, Grant, Job, Workshop, Residency, and so on.
Step 5: Fill in the Details
Several of these are rich text fields, so you can use bullet points, bold, and headers to keep long content readable.
Description*: A full description of the opportunity. Rich text.
Application Fee*: The cost to apply, or mark it as free.
Award or Compensation: Any financial reward attached to the opportunity. Leave blank if there isn't one.
Application Materials: What applicants need to submit. Rich text ā a bulleted list works well here.
Fine Print: Terms, restrictions, and anything else applicants should know before applying. Rich text.
Attachment: Upload a PDF if you have supporting documents, such as full guidelines or a prospectus.
Any remaining fields are optional and can be left blank.
Step 6: Create and Publish
Click Create. Your opportunity appears in your dashboard, where you can confirm the deadline and the scope you set.
When you're ready, click Publish.
Depending on your community's settings, your opportunity will either be submitted for review by the partner arts agency that brought Culturalyst to your community, or publish straight to the public opportunity list.
Additional Tips
Your opportunity gets emailed to relevant artists. Twice a month we send every artist on Culturalyst a digest of open opportunities, filtered to their discipline. Anything published live is automatically included ā which makes accurate scope and discipline selections worth double-checking.
Editing Opportunities: You can update a listing after publishing by returning to your Opportunities dashboard and selecting the post you want to change.
Track approval status from the dashboard if your community requires review before listings go public.
Congratulations! You've successfully posted an opportunity on Culturalyst. It's now visible to your selected audience.
If you need further assistance, reach out through the chat box in the corner of any page, email [email protected], or visit our help desk, linked in the website footer.