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Artistic Jobs and Opportunities Roundup: July 2026

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

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Remote Arts and Culture Job Openings

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Pittsburgh-based Artistic Opportunities

Auditions & Castings

Artist Residencies, Fellowships, & Professional Development

  • Call for Applications for One-Year Creative Lab Membership Sponsorship at Atithi Studios (Due 7/31)
  • Call for Applications from Black, Indigenous, and People of Color; LGBTQIA+; and other underrepresented artists for Arcade Comedy Theater's Diversity Scholarship (Due 7/31)
  • Call for Applications from Southwest PA nonprofit leaders for Elevate NP's tHRive HR Fundamentals Cohort (Due 7/24)
  • Call for Applications from Pittsburgh-region visual artists ages 18-25 for Offroute Art's Fall 2026 "Communities of Care" Fellowship (Due 8/1)

Vendor & Market Opportunities

Calls for Artists & Submissions

  • Call for Submissions of shirsey/apparel designs celebrating heritage and community nights for the Pittsburgh Penguins' Drawn to the Game initiative (Due 7/31)
  • ​​Call for Submissions of Pittsburgh music for Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh's STACKS collection (Due 7/31)
  • Call for Submissions* of short story collections for University of Pittsburgh Press's Drue Heinz Literature Prize (Due 7/31)
  • Call for Submissions* for Cookies and Comedy Film Festival (Due 7/31)
  • Call for Applications* from Black and BIPOC artists for Rooted in Grit, Held in Grace: 30th Anniversary Mavuno Exhibition at Sweetwater Center for the Arts (Due 7/31)
  • Call for Submissions of drawings and paintings for Iridescent Exhibition at Ketchup City Creative (Due 7/19)
  • Call for Artists* for Living Canvas IV, a figurative arts exhibition (Due 7/20)
  • Call for Artists for Printx Pittsburgh 2026 Printmaking Art Show & Print Exchange (Due 7/25)
  • Call for Artists for RESONATE, a fine art gallery and exhibition at The Castle (Due 7/10)
  • Call for Submissions of short films by Pittsburgh indie filmmakers for Raw Daisies x Skeleton Collective's MAYHEM! screening series
  • Call for Submissions from Allegheny County students in grades 6-12 for Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh's Teen Media Awards (Due 8/10)
  • Call for Applications for choreographers for Texture Ballet's Texture Choreography Project (Due 8/8)

Grants & Funding

  • Call for Applications from Pittsburgh-area nonprofits for EQT Foundation's Community Enrichment Grant (Due 8/1)
  • Call for Applications from small- and mid-sized arts organizations for Opportunity Fund's Cycle 2 Grants (Due 7/15)
  • Call for Applications for Awesome Pittsburgh's $1,000 Micro-Grants (Rolling Deadline)
  • Call for Applications from both non- and for-profit businesses in Allegheny County for Gaming Economic Development Tourism Fund (GEDTF) grants (Due August 14)

Requests for Proposals & Qualifications

Regional and National Artistic Opportunities  

Artist Residencies, Fellowships, & Professional Development

  • Call for Applications for Ucross Foundation's Artist Residency Program, Spring 2027 session, in Ucross, WY (Due 7/15)
  • Call for Applications for Hopelab's inaugural Artist-in-Residence Program in San Francisco, CA (Due 7/17)
  • Call for Applications* from women writers for Storyknife Writers Retreat in Homer, AK (Due 8/31)
  • Call for Applications for Oliver Art Center's Nancy Ingersoll Foster Artist in Residence Program in Frankfort/Lake Ann, MI (Due 7/27)
  • Call for Applications for Pioneer Works' 2027 Visual Arts and Music Residency in Brooklyn, NY (Due 7/13)
  • Call for Applications for TED & POSCA's Global Artist Residency on the theme of Visible Mending (Due 7/31)
  • Call for Applications* for Kala Art Institute's Artist-in-Residence Program in Berkeley, CA (Due 7/15)
  • Call for Applications* for We-Che Art Residency's Artist-in-Residence Program in Trevelin, Chubut, Argentina (Rolling deadline)
  • Call for Applications* for Loghaven Artist Residency in Knoxville, TN (Due 7/15)
  • Call for Applications from artists in film/video, visual arts, fiction, poetry, playwriting, and music composition for Harvard Radcliffe Institute's 2027-2028 Fellowship in Cambridge, MA (Due 9/10)
  • Call for Applications* for Lucid Art Foundation's Lucid Art Residency Program 2027 in Inverness, CA (Due 10/26)
  • Call for Applications for PA Humanities' PA Cultural Exchange (PaX) Fellowship for Pennsylvania-based cultural and creative practitioners (Due 7/8)
  • Call for Applications* for Banff Centre's Deep Winter Writers Residency in Banff, Alberta, Canada (Due 7/15)
  • Call for Applications* for Banff Centre's Banff Musicians in Residence program in Banff, Alberta, Canada (Due 7/29)
  • Call for Applications* from mid-career musical theatre performers and emerging choreographers for Banff Centre's Musical Theatre Dancers Intensive in Banff, Alberta, Canada (Due 8/12)
  • Call for Applications for Collar Works' Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency (individual and family sessions) in Granville, NY (Due 10/1 — No Application Fee through 9/1)

Vendor & Market Opportunities

  • Call for Applications* for Norton Healthcare Sports and Learning Center's Artists & Afros 2026 art show in Louisville, KY (Due 8/15)
  • Call for Applications* for SLICE Expo 2026 for comics, zines, and print culture artists at The Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis, MO (Due 7/15)

Calls for Artists & Submissions

  • Call for Submissions for ArtsQuest’s Sculpture at SteelStacks in Bethlehem, PA (Due 7/10)
  • Call for Submissions of photography for Photography 4 Humanity's HOME Global Prize, exhibiting at United Nations Headquarters in New York, NY (Due 7/12)
  • Call for Submissions* from emerging writers for Electric Literature's Emerging Writers Contest (Due 7/15)
  • Call for Applications from performing artists and companies for Atlas Performing Arts Center's INTERSECTIONS Festival 2027 in Washington, DC (Due 8/14)
  • Call for Submissions of original short fiction for The Protopian Prize (Due 7/31)
  • Call for Submissions* of photography for The Delaplaine Arts Center's 2026 National Juried Photography Exhibition in Frederick, MD (Due 9/27)
  • Call for Submissions* of 2D art for Soul of Artists' 4th Online 2D Art International Exhibition (Due 10/16)
  • Call for Applications* for City of Ottawa Arts Committee's Paint the Town Plein Air Festival in Ottawa, IL (Due 9/3)
  • Call for Submissions of book-length works of non-fiction memoir that address the subject of survival for Unbound Edition Press's "Memoirs of Survival" (Due 7/15)
  • Call for Submissions of nature and place-based stories, essays, and poetry for Campfire Stories: Tales from America's National Parks, Volume 3 (Due 8/31)
  • Call for Submissions* of visual art for HMVC Gallery's Freestyle 4.0 Online Group Show (Due 7/29)
  • Call for Submissions* of novel/novella manuscripts for Split/Lip Press (Due 8/1)
  • Call for Submissions* of narrative, documentary, and experimental films for Taos Film Festival 2027 in Taos, NM (Due 1/15)
  • Call for Submissions of poetry, creative nonfiction, and artwork for Kitchen Table Quarterly (Due 7/31)
  • Call for Submissions* of visual art engaging with Christian faith and spirituality for Trinity Art Show 10th Annual National Juried Exhibition at Trinity Cathedral in Sacramento, CA (Due 8/19)
  • Call for Submissions* of visual art and writing for Pennsylvania Journal of Arts and Sciences' Winter 2027 "Vintage" Issue (Due 10/30)
  • Call for Submissions* of 2D art, miniatures, and photography for Aurora Artists Guild's 31st Annual Gateway to the Rockies Art Show & Sale in Aurora, CO (Due 9/14)
  • Call for Submissions* for Roger Tory Peterson Institute's Art That Matters to the Planet: Dark Skies exhibition in Jamestown, NY (Due 11/7)

Grants & Funding

  • Call for Applications from women music producers, engineers, songwriters, and creators for We Are Moving The Needle's Studio Grants by Garnier (Due 7/12)
  • Call for Applications from emerging visual artists for Liu Shiming Art Foundation's Annual Artist Grants (Due 8/31)
  • Call for Applications from photographers and filmmakers for Fujifilm's GFX Challenge Grant Program 2026 (Due 8/17)
  • Call for Applications* from women figurative realist painters for The Bennett Prize 5 at Muskegon Museum of Art in Muskegon, MI (Due 9/19)
  • Call for Applications* for Artist Grant's $1,200 Unrestricted Grant for Visual Artists (Due 7/15)
  • Call for Applications from nonprofit organizations for Norfolk Southern's Thriving Communities Grant for neighborhood beautification and placemaking projects (Due 8/3)
  • Call for Applications for Emergency Grant for painters, printmakers, and sculptors by Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation (Rolling deadline)

Requests for Proposals & Qualifications

  • Request for Qualifications for Creative Philadelphia's MSB Interpretive Panels Public Art Commission in Philadelphia, PA (Due 7/12)
  • Request for Proposals for Railyard Park Conservancy's Railyard Art Project temporary public art installations in Santa Fe, NM (Due 8/5)

*Some opportunities may require an application fee or a residency cost, 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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