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Artistic Jobs and Opportunities Roundup: December 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

  • Request for Proposals for Tape Art Installations in conjunction with artist Eric Lennartson’s TAPESCAPE exhibit exhibition at Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh (Due December 21)

  • Call for Submissions of artwork primarily using some form of tape in conjunction with artist Eric Lennartson’s TAPESCAPE exhibit exhibition at Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh (Due January 6)

  • Call for Submissions for Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s Three Rivers Arts Festival’s Juried Visual Art Exhibition in partnership with Associated Artists of Pittsburgh (Due February 3)

  • Call for Art for The Tomayko Foundation's 2026 Spring Exhibition Open Call (Due January 9)

  • Call for Applications from creatives aged 16-22 for JY Originals Scholarship for Creatives (Due December 31)

  • Call for Applications from musicians identifying as part of social identity groups underrepresented in classical music for Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra's Paul J. Ross Fellowship Auditions (Due January 15)

  • Call for Auditions for Stage 62's children production of Shrek TYA (December 16)

  • Casting Call for The Strikebreakers by artist Jonathan González to be presented at Carnegie Museum of Art's Carnegie International (Due January 1)

  • Call For Scores of chamber works from Pittsburgh-based composers for NAT 28 (Due January 18)

  • Call for Applications for Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh's 2026 Artist-in-Residence (Due January 14)

  • Request for Proposals for Strategic Planning Consultant at Handmade Arcade (Due January 30)

  • Call for Exhibition Proposals for Contemporary Craft's newly established Zeve Regional Gallery (Due December 31)

  • Call for Regional Artist Residencies at Contemporary Craft (Rolling deadline)

  • Call for Auditions for Little Lake Theatre's production of The Wizard of Oz (December 14-15)

  • Call for Applications for Short-Term Research Fellowships at CMU’s Posner and Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Fellowships for Research & Creative Practice (Due January 11)

  • Call for Applications from ceramic artists for Pittsburgh Center for Arts & Media' Keystone Kilnwars in partnership with Ceramics Takeover Wheeling (Due January 18)

  • Call for Proposals from CMU students, staff, or faculty members currently working on a creative project in the Extended Reality field for Extended Reality Creative Research Grant, a collaboration between the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, the  Kenner Room, and Extended Reality Technology Center (Due February 16)

Regional and National Artistic Opportunities  

  • Call for Artists for Lynch Family Skatepark 2026 Graffiti/Street Artist-in-Residence Program in Cambridge, Massachusetts (Due January 5)

  • Call for Applications for Arts for All Roadtrip with Roadtrip Nation (Due December 21)

  • Call for Applications for 2026 Alba Music Composition Program in Alba, Italy (Due December 15)

  • Call for Proposals from visionary artists and designers for Roman J. Witt Residency in Ann Arbor, Michigan (Due January 15)

  • Call for Submissions for James Marston Fitch Mid-Career Fellowship (Due December 15)

  • Call for Applications from composers for Roots in the Sky's 2026 Choral Composition Program in Bozeman, Montana (Due December 15)

  • Call for Applications from professional and emerging sculptors for Sculpture Tucson 2026 Sculpture Festival Show & Sale in Tucson, Arizona (Due December 10)

  • Call for Commission Proposals for the Dr. Thor Johnson Memorial Commission to be premiered at the Delta Omicron Fraternity Triennial Conference (Due December 31)

  • Call for Applications for community engagement musical projects taking place in March 2026 for Early Music Month Mini-Grants (Due January 9)

  • Call for Submissions for Public Art Commission Outdoor Sculptures in Ashland, Virginia (Due December 17)

  • Call for Art and Poetry Submissions from women (including LGBTQIAA) for Syracuse Cultural Workers' 2027 Women Artists Datebook (Due January 15)

  • Request for Qualifications from artists/artist teams for Public Art Commission at University of New Mexico Hospital Children's Psychiatric Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico (Due December 12)

  • Call for Submissions for CRAFT 2025 Memoir Excerpt & Essay Contest with Guest Judge Roxane Gay (Due January 25)

  • Request for Qualifications from artists or artists teams for Mothers of Murdered Columbus Children Memorial in Columbus, Ohio (Due December 22)

  • Call for Applications from visual artists who are painters, sculptors, and artists who work on paper, including printmakers for Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants (Rolling deadline)

  • Request for Proposals for Permanent Public Artworks at the Southeast Government Center in Orlando, Florida (Due December 15)

  • Call for Applications from literary arts nonprofits for the Literary Arts Fund (Due December 19)

  • Call for Submissions of essays, column ideas, and visual work for The Other Almanac (Due March 20)

  • Request for Qualifications for University Avenue Underpass Mural Project in Lafayette, Louisiana (Due December 15)

  • Call for Applications for The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program in Brooklyn, New York (Due January 15)

  • Request for Qualifications for HQ Terrazzo Floor and Entryway Plaza Permanent Public Artwork at Reno-Tahoe International Airport in Reno, Nevada (Due December 17)

  • Call for Submissions from comedic arts students who are part of underrepresented communities for The Upright Citizens Brigade's Diversity Scholarship Program (Rolling deadline)

  • Call for Submissions from fiber artists for Surface Design Association's juried exhibition, T3%+!le$: The Language of Fiber, in Auburn, New York (Due March 16)

 

 

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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