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Artistic Jobs and Opportunities Roundup: August 2025

Looking for employment as an artist or arts administrator in Pittsburgh? We’ve compiled a list of job openings at some of the area's best arts and cultural institutions, as well as regional and national opportunities. If you would like to see your organization’s job opening or artistic opportunity featured in our next blog post, please submit your free listing, making sure to include salary information.

Pittsburgh-based Arts and Culture Job Openings

Remote Arts and Culture Job Openings

Pittsburgh-based Artistic Opportunities

Regional and National Artistic Opportunities  

  • Call for Applications from nonprofit organizations that help revitalize neighborhoods and downtowns in a variety of ways for the Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development's Main Street Matters (MSM) program (Due August 31)

  • Call for Applications from BIPOC artists and administrators for The Greenhouse mentorship program (Due August 20)

  • Call for Applicants for artists working in the field of contemporary sculpture for International Sculpture Center Innovator Award (Due September 9)

  • Call for Submissions from artists working at the intersection of food and art for Culinary Artist in Residency at Ox-Bow in Saugatuck, Michigan (Due October 1)

  • Call for Submissions from painters of all styles and media for New American Paintings' Northeast Competition (Due August 31)

  • Call for Creative Project Proposals from emerging/promising content creators for FUJIFILM's GFX Challenge Grant Program (Due August 31)

  • Call for Applications from early-career visual artists for Liu Shiming Artist Grants (due August 31)

  • Request for Qualifications from professional artists or exhibition firms for Onsite Interpretive Installations at Bartram's Gardens in Philadelphia (Due August 22)

  • Call for Applications from independent filmmakers with active Kickstarter campaigns for Kickstarter and Tubi’s FilmStream Collective (Due August 31)

  • Call for Applications from scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and professional fields such as architecture or law for The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress' Kluge Fellowships in Washington, DC (Due September 15)

  • Call for Submissions for the New York Comedy Festival’s “Comics to Watch” live stand-up showcase (Due September 12)

  • Call for Applications from emerging and mid-career artists for Portland Art Museum’s Center for an Untold Tomorrow’s Artist in Residency program in Portland, Oregon (Due August 22)

  • Call for Submissions for comics, strips, essays, collages, and more for Purgatory Comics Press anthology (Due November 1)

  • Call for Educators to lead engaging sessions during Jacksonville Placemaking School's PlacemakingJax in Jacksonville, Florida (Due September 7)

  • Call for Applications for Princeton Arts Fellowship at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey (Due September 9)

  • Call for Submissions of creative projects to present to a delegation of global performing arts industry professionals for Pitch New Works (Due August 22)

  • Call for Play Submissions for the 2026-27 Woodward/Newman Award (Due August 31)

  • Call for Applications from artists of all mediums for Artist-in-Residence at Jalama Canyon Ranch in Santa Barbara County, California (Due August 15)

  • Call for Applications from performing arts nonprofits for the ETC Performing Arts Funding Grant Program (Due August 31)

  • Call for Applications for the Bryn Du Artist in Residence Program in Granville, Ohio (Due August 31, 2026)

  • Call for Applications from fiction and nonfiction authors, poets, playwrights, translators, and journalists in need of short-term financial emergencies for PEN America’s U.S. Writers Aid Initiative (Due October 1)

  • Call for Applications for Willapa Bay Artist Residency in Oysterville, Washington (Due August 31)

  • Call for Entries exploring how such tech advancements might instead contribute to lasting peace without excessive compromises to human freedom for The Hinternet Essay Prize (Due September 1)

  • Call for Applications for Corning Museum of Glass Studio's Artists-in-Residence Program in Corning, New York (Due August 31)

  • Call for Applications for Corning Museum of Glass Studios' Black, Indigenous, & People of Color Residency in Corning, New York (Due August 31)

  • Call for Applications for Corning Museum of Glass Studios' David Whitehouse Research Residency for Artists in Corning, New York (Due August 31)

  • Call for Applications from women writers for Storyknife Writers Retreat in Homer, Alaska (Due August 31)

  • Call for Applications from artists and writers for the Hodder Fellowship (Due September 9)

  • Call for Applications from craft artists for the 2026 Smithsonian Craft Show (Due September 16)

  • Open Call for artists of all backgrounds and mediums for Fragmentation of Identity Online Exhibition (Due September 14)

Some opportunities may require an application fee, so we recommend reviewing the fine print to ensure you're comfortable with the listed conditions. If the fee is a barrier, check to see if the organization offers waivers or scholarships. We also advocate for artists not to be required to do unpaid labor before applying for opportunities, so we encourage you to check all guidelines before deciding to submit.

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