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Artistic Jobs and Opportunities Roundup: June 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
Full-time
- Costume Manager at City Theatre
Salary: $22/hour - Administrative & Facilities Coordinator at City of Asylum
Salary: $55,000 - Artistic Producer at City Theatre Company
Salary: $52,000-56,000 - Annual Fund Manager at Pittsburgh Opera
Salary: $55,000-59,000 - Executive Director at Attack Theatre
Salary: $90,000-110,000 - Operations Manager at Chatham Baroque
Salary: $48,000-52,000 - Experience Designer at Deeplocal
Salary: $50,000-84,000 - Pianist and Music Coordinator at Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre
Salary: $40,950 - Vice President of Technology at WQED
Salary: $160,000-200,000 - Director of Broadcast Engineering at WQED
Salary: $100,000-125,000 - Music Teacher at Propel Montour Middle School
Salary: $50,485-101,454 - Multimedia Designer at Carnegie Library of PIttsburgh
Salary: $22.75/hour - Director of Institutional Support at Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Salary: $95,000-105,000 - Graphic Designer, Development at Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Salary: $52,000-58,000 - Communications Associate at Children's Museum of Pittsburgh
Salary: $18.50/hour - K-6 Music Teacher at Penn Hills Charter School of Entrepreneurship
Salary: $50,000 - Grants Officer at McElhattan Foundation
Salary: $95,000-110,000 - Grants Associate at McElhattan Foundation
Salary: $55,000-65,000 - Research Associate at McElhattan Foundation
Salary: $55,000-65,000 - Events Manager at Pittsburgh Botanic Garden
Salary: $52,000-59,000 - Head of Influencers & Community at Duolingo
Salary: $196,000-294,000 - Associate Designer at Packaging Corporation of America
Salary: $65,000-85,000 - Director of Capital Projects at Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
Salary: $90,000
Part-time
- Marketing Coordinator at Kelly Strayhorn Theater
Compensation: $20/hour - Studio Operations Assistant at War Streets Art Salon
Compensation: $17/hour - Marketing & Communications Manager at Chatham Baroque
Compensation: $23-25/hour - Audio & Video Coordinator for Glenshaw Presbyterian Church
Compensation: $30/hour - Art Therapist or Art Teacher at Fine Art Miracles
Compensation: $35-45/hour - Visitor Services Representative at Kamin Science Center
Compensation: $16/hour - Graphic Designer/Print Production at Minuteman Press Canonsburg
Compensation: $17/hour - Teaching Artist at Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre
Compensation: $31/class - Pilates Instructor at Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre
Compensation: $40/hour - Teaching Artist at Union Project
Compensation: $20/hour - Events Staff at Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh
Compensation: $18/hour - Audio Engineer at Flyspace Productions
Compensation: $21.64-24/hour - Event Assistant at Flyspace Productions
Compensation: $17/hour
Freelance/Contract
- Client Relationship Specialist at The Lab @ Silver Eye Center for Photography
Compensation: $35/hour - Sound and Lighting Technician at Keystone Entertainment
Compensation: $20-40/hour - Guest Teaching Artists at Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse
Compensation: $18/hour
Seasonal/Temporary
- Assistant House Manager at Quantum Theatre
Compensation: $17/hour - After School Explorers Music Instructor at Shady Side Academy Junior School
Compensation: $25-35/hour - Fall Design Intern at Deeplocal
Compensation: $19-29/hour - Craft Café Hosts at War Streets Art Salon
Compensation: $15/hour - Visitor & Museum Services Gallery Associate at Carnegie Museum of Art
Compensation: $16/hour
Remote Arts and Culture Job Openings
Full-time
- Communications Specialist at The Kendrick Arts Group
Salary: $70,000-75,000 - Membership Manager at American Craft Council
Salary: $60,000-63,000 - Marketing & Communications Manager at American Craft Council
Salary: $60,000-63,000 - Marketing and Communications Coordinator at National Dance Education Organization
Salary: $40,000-50,000 - President & CEO at 4A American Alliance of Artists & Audiences (4A Arts)
Salary: $120,000-135,000
Part-time
- Executive Director and Editor at Studio Potter
Compensation: $45,000 - Program Coordinator at WRNS Studio Foundation
Compensation: $28-35/hour - Novel Voices Program Manager at Project: Music Heals Us
Compensation: $40/hour - Executive Director at Society for American Music
Compensation: $55,000-65,000
Freelance/Contract
- Development Strategy Partner at UrbanTheater Company
Compensation: $2,050/month - Content Strategist at Digital Counsel
Compensation: $40/hour - Instagram Shop & Product Tagging Specialist at Artist Studio
Compensation: $100-1,500 stipend - Short-Form Video Editor at Hoffman Center for the Arts
Compensation: $25/hour
Pittsburgh-based Artistic Opportunities
Auditions & Castings
- Call for Auditions for Bricolage Production Company's Midnight Radio at City Theatre (6/29)
- Call for Auditions for Proud Peacock Productions' The Case of The Dead Stone at Ice House Studios (6/7)
- Call for Auditions for Little Lake Theatre Company’s Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson and Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors (6/8)
- Call for Auditions for musical comedy satire Off the Record Pittsburgh (6/14)
Artist Residencies, Fellowships, & Professional Development
- Call for Applications* for Bunker Projects' Artist Residency Program (Due 6/21)
Vendor & Market Opportunities
- Call for Applications* for Handmade Arcade's 2026 Holiday Market at David L. Lawrence Convention Center (Due 6/30)
- Call for Applications for Pittsburgh Center for Arts & Media's Shop Vendor Program (Due 6/14)
- Call for Applications for Pittsburgh Center for Arts & Media's yART Artists' Market (Due 7/5)
- Call for Applications for Dormont Arts' Art in the Park vendors (Due 6/30)
- Call for Applications from artists for Creative Chem Co consignment vending (Rolling deadline)
Calls for Artists & Submissions
- Call for Applications from guest artists and host studios for Pittsburgh Potters Tour (Due 6/27)
- Call for Submissions* for Cookies and Comedy Film Festival (Due 7/31)
- Call for Submissions* for Inaugural Group Exhibition at Brighter Days Gallery (Due 6/30)
- Call for Art from Associated Artists of Pittsburgh members for an upcoming exhibition at The Tomayko Foundation (Due 7/3)
- Call for Applications for Evolve Coaching’s Evening of Art (Due 6/30)
- Call for Artists for Printx Pittsburgh 2026 Printmaking Art Show & Print Exchange (Due 7/25)
- Call for Submissions* of sculpture for Arts + Education at the Hoyt and Society of Sculptors Pittsburgh's Shaping Space Exhibition in New Castle, PA (Due 6/14)
- Call for Submissions* 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 Pittsburgh poems and images for Main Street Rag's Where the Rivers Meet Anthology (Due 6/30)
- Call for Submissions* of zero-budget amateur remakes of your favorite films for 10th Annual Sweded Film Festival at Row House Cinema (Due 6/15)
- Call for Performers from bands and musicians for Girls+ Rock! Pittsburgh's 2026 Summer Camp Lunchtime Performance Series
- Call for Submissions of drawings and paintings for Iridescent Exhibition at Ketchup City Creative (Due 7/19)
Grants & Funding
- Call for Applications from individual artists, nonprofit organizations, and community-based programs dedicated to advancing Black art and culture for Pittsburgh Foundation's Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh Grant (Due 6/24)
- Call for Applications from nonprofit executive directors for Sabbatical Grants for SWPA Nonprofit Leaders (Due 6/30)
Regional and National Artistic Opportunities
Artist Residencies, Fellowships, & Professional Development
- 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 Grand Canyon Conservancy's Artist-in-Residence Program 2027 at Grand Canyon National Park, AZ (Due 7/15)
- Call for Applications for Roundhouse Foundation's Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts & Agriculture Residency in Sisters, OR (Due 7/6)
- Call for Applications for Exploratorium's 2026-2027 Artist-in-Residence Program in San Francisco, CA (Due 6/29)
- Call for Applications* for Zion National Park's Artist-in-Residence Program 2027 in Springdale, UT (Due 7/12)
- Call for Applications* for Marble House Project's 2027 Artist-in-Residence Program in Dorset, VT (Due 6/14)
- Call for Applications for Feminist Press' Fall 2026 Publishing Apprenticeship, Remote or Hybrid (Due 6/26)
- Call for Applications for TED & POSCA's Global Artist Residency on the theme of Visible Mending (Due 7/31)
- Call for Applications for Abstract Mag's Summer Residency for visual artists in Tbilisi, Georgia (Due 6/15)
- Call for Applications* for Peter Bullough Foundation's Spring 2027 Artist-in-Residence Program in Winchester, VA (Due 6/10)
- Call for Applications for Blue Line Arts' Susan Cooley Gilliom Artist in Residence & Teaching Program (SCG ART) 2027 in Roseville, CA (Due 12/31)
- Call for Applications for City of Novi's Villa Barr Art Park Artist-in-Residence Program in Novi, MI (Due 9/14)
- Call for Applications for In-Na-Po's (Indigenous Nations Poets) Poetry Coalition Fellowship for emerging literary arts administrators (Remote, Due 7/1)
Vendor & Market Opportunities
- 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 Artists and Nonprofits for vending opportunities at Bowlby Heritage Craft Fair in Greene County (Due 6/10)
- Call for Submissions from photographers and video makers for PhotoVogue's Brave New Visions: Creativity as Rebellion Global Open Call (Due 9/11)
- Call for Submissions for Embracing Our Differences' 2027 International Outdoor Juried Art Exhibition (Due 7/1)
- Call for Submissions* from photographers and printmakers for The Print Center's 101st ANNUAL International Competition in Philadelphia, PA (Due 6/18)
- Call for Submissions* from writers in all genres for Writer's Digest's 95th Annual Writing Competition (Due 6/15)
Grants & Funding
- Call for Applications from emerging visual artists for Liu Shiming Art Foundation's Annual Artist Grants (Due 8/31)
- Call for Applications from people who make comics for Comics Advocacy Group Mini Grant (Due 6/7)
- Call for Applications for Pollock-Krasner Foundation's Grant for Artists (Rolling deadline)
- 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 from teams of community-based organizations and local government working to repair damage from divisive infrastructure for Community Connectors 2026 by Smart Growth America (Due 7/17)
- Call for Applications* for Innovate Artist Grants' Spring 2026 Cycle for visual artists and photographers (Due 6/18)
- Call for Applications from organizations for National Endowment for the Humanities’ Media Projects grants supporting documentary films, radio programs, and podcasts (Due 6/25)
- Call for Applications from emerging ceramic artists for James Renwick Alliance for Craft's Chrysalis Award (Due 8/23)
- 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 Art Fluent's Evolution Grant for Individual Visual Artists (Due 6/19)
- Call for Applications from nonprofits for Pennsylvania Creative Industries' Creative Catalyst Grants (Due 6/12)
- Call for Applications of immersive media projects from nonprofits or XR creators with fiscal sponsors for Agog's Climate Futures + Immersive Media Open Call (Due 6/12)
- Call for Submissions* from cartoonists for Make More Comics' Annual Comics Grant (Due 6/15)
- Call for Applications for Emergency Grant for painters, printmakers, and sculptors by Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation (Rolling deadline)
Requests for Proposals & Qualifications
- Request for Proposals for Graphic Designer for Reports at Smart Growth America (Due 6/30)
- Request for Qualifications for Denver Public Art's 5280 Trail at Acoma Street Public Art Commission in Denver, CO (Due 6/15)
- Request for Qualifications for Hillsborough County's Bealsville Park Exterior Mural Public Art Project in Plant City, FL (Due 6/24)
- Request for Qualifications from experienced public artists for Chandra Cerrito/Art Advisors' Outdoor Sculpture Artist Pool for Pediatric Hospital in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA (Due 6/15)
- Request for Qualifications for City of Frederick's Bearing Witness: Frederick's Sites of Enslavement Initiative Public Art Commission in Frederick, MD (Due 6/25)
- Request for Qualifications for City of Port St. Lucie's Woodland and Fairy Tale Themed Roundabout Sculpture Commission in Port St. Lucie, FL (Due 6/24)
- Request for Qualifications for Sonoma County Library's Roseland Regional Library Mosaic Commission in Santa Rosa, CA (Due 6/19)
*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.