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Artistic Jobs and Opportunities Roundup: June 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

  • Call for Artists for Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh's Envisioning A Just Pittsburgh (Due November 2)

  • Request for Qualifications for Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership and City of Pittsburgh’s Smithfield Street Sculptural Lighting Project (Due July 21)

  • Call for Makers & Creative Small Business Owners for PantherlabWorks’ Made to Last Resource Fair, Workshop & Artist's Showcase (Due June 9)

  • Call for Artists for Touchstone Center for Crafts' The Figure in Craft Juried Exhibition (Due June 15)

  • Call for Applications from ceramic artists for Pittsburgh Potters Tour (Due June 15)

  • Call for Auditions for Youth Shakespeare Society of Pittsburgh's performance of The Tempest (Due June 12)

  • Call for Artists to display work at The Genesis Collective's Uncommon Concert (Event is on June 27)

  • Call for Auditions for Pittsburgh Savoyards' production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s Utopia, Limited, or: The Flowers of Progress (June 12 and June 14)

  • Call for Applications from emerging electronic musicians for The Rising Artist Foundation and Honcho's Fourth River Grant and Creative Development Workshop (Due June 6)

  • Call for Applications for Bunker Projects' Free Residency Program (Due June 22)

  • Call for Applications for The Pittsburgh Musician Changemaker Accelerator (MCA) Workshop (Due June 6)

  • Call for Entries for Pittsburgh PrintX Show: Impressions Together – A Print Exchange for All (Due June 27)

  • Call for Applications for Activity Partners for Open Streets Pittsburgh (Due June 6)

  • Call for Applications for Pittsburgh Center for Arts & Media's yArt Sale (Due July 13)

  • Call for Applications for Handmade Arcade's 2025 Holiday Market (Due July 23)

  • Call for Applications for Handmade Arcade's Youth Maker Accelerator Program (Due July 23)

  • Call for Applications from local and visiting artists for Bunker's Residency Program (Due June 22)

  • Call for Auditions for Little Lake Theatre's production of Reefer Madness the Musical (Due June 18)

  • Call for Applications for Pittsburgh Center for Arts & Media's Ceramic Residency Program (Due June 30)

  • Call for Applications from Pittsburgh-based small businesses for Run Relay's $3,000 Marketing Grant (Due July 7)

  • Call for Applications for PearlDiving Movement Residency (Rolling deadline)

  • Call for Applications from individual artists who lost income from the COVID-19 pandemic for The City of Pittsburgh and American Rescue Plan Act Support for Artists Grant, facilitated by Casey Droege Cultural Productions (Due June 16)

  • Call for Submissions from producers and directors for Butler Little Theatre's 84th Season

  • Call for Applications for The Pittsburgh Foundation's fall grant proposals (Due July 15)

  • Call for Applications for Handmade Arcade's 2025 Hands-On Handmade Arcade Program (Due September 13)

  • Call for Papers from emerging craft scholars and practitioners for CraftNOW Philadelphia (Due September 15)

Regional and National Artistic Opportunities  

  • Request for Qualifications from visual artists for Adams County Mural Project (Due June 16)

  • Call for Applications for 2025-2026 Public Artists in Residence (PAIR) in New York (Due June 30)

  • Call for Applications for 2025-26 New City Critics Fellowship (Due June 12)

  • Call for Story Submissions for 2025 Tusculum Review Fiction Chapbook Prize (Due June 15)

  • Call for Applications from individuals interested in literary arts nonprofit work for 2025–26 Poetry Coalition Fellowships (Due July 1)

  • Call for Applications for Grand Canyon National Park's Artist in Residence Program (Due July 15)

  • Call for Applications from muralists for Flint Public Art Project's FREE CITY MURAL FEST in Michigan (Due June 15)

  • Call for Applications from poets for SWWIM Poetry Residency @ The Betsy-South Beach in Florida (Due August 1)

  • Call for Entries for Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize in New York (Due July 17)

  • Call for Applications from artists and writers for Micro-Residency at Bischoff Inn in Tamaqua, PA (Due August 17)

  • Call for Artists from individual mosaic artists or artist teams for Creative Philadelphia and Rebuild's Percent for Art Opportunity: Francis J. Myers Recreation Center (Due July 17)

  • Call for Applications for Prairie Ronde Artist Residency in Michigan (Due June 15)

  • Call for Entries from two-dimensional artists for American Wildlife Art Competition & Exhibition in Maryland (Due July 31)

  • Call for Submissions created by/for disabled, deaf, chronically ill, neurodivergent, mentally ill and/or mad folks (Due July 20)

  • Call for Submissions for Ridgewood Off-Kilter Film Festival in New York (Due July 20)

  • Call for Applications from early-career artists for The Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art (Due July 4)

  • Call for Entries from quilters working in art, bed, or wall quilts for 2025 Quilts Unlimited (Due August 22)

  • Call for Applications from undergraduate or graduate students, or those who have graduated within the past six months, for The Archives of American Art Internships (Due June 25)

  • Call for Entries from clay artists for Alberta Potters' Association's APA Stein Show (Due August 15)

  • Call for Applications from artists, writers, composers, performers, and researchers for Arts Letters & Numbers, Summer Residency in New York (Due June 15)

  • Call for Submissions on stories, insights, or tools that help guide the future of AI for Global Dialogues Challenge (Due July 11)

  • Call for Submissions from sculpture artists for Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition in New Hampshire (Due July 5)

  • Call for Applications from artists from diverse backgrounds of the African Diaspora for Indigo Mentorship Residency Program in Maine 

  • Call for Entries from drawing artists for Martha's Vineyard Drawing Prize (Due October 20)

  • Call for Applications for Cold Spring Center Harbor Laboratory's for Humanities & History of Modern Biology's Research Travel Grants

  • Call for Applications from ceramics and metal artists for The Steel Yard's 2026 micro-residency program in Rhode Island

  • Call for Applications from emerging and established artists working in architecture, dance, interdisciplinary art, music, theater, visual art, and writing for Longhaven Artist Residency in Tennessee (Due July 15)

  • Call for Entries from photographers for Decagon Gallery's Place and Spaces Online Photography Exhibition (Due June 30)

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.

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