Arts Blog

Jobs and Opportunities |

Artistic Jobs and Opportunities Roundup: March 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

Part-time

Freelance/Contract

Seasonal/Temporary

Remote Arts and Culture Job Openings

Full-time

Part-time

Seasonal/Temporary

Pittsburgh-based Artistic Opportunities

Auditions & Castings

Artist Residencies, Fellowships, & Professional Development

  • Call for Applications for Distillery Emerging Artist Residency at Brew House Arts (Due 4/20)
  • Call for Applications from emerging artists and collaborators for Kelly Strayhorn Theater's Freshworks Artist Residency (Due 4/5)
  • Call for Applications for August Wilson Archive Educator Award program, providing support and incentive for teachers to explore the August Wilson Archive at the University of Pittsburgh Library System (Due 4/30)
  • Call for Applications for The Warhol Academy's Digital Content Creation Fellowship (Due 4/19)
  • Call for Applications for The Warhol Academy's Filmmaking and Post Production Fellowship (Due 4/19)
  • Call for Applications for Pittsburgh Society of Artists’ New Member Screening (3/21)

Vendor & Market Opportunities

  • Call for Applications from Black businesses to vend at The Cocoapreneur Market in Downtown Pittsburgh during the NFL Draft, sponsored by Greenwood Plan
  • Call for Applications from artist and artisan vendors at City of Pittsburgh events (Rolling deadline)
  • Call for Applications* for A Fair in the Park, produced by The Craftsmen’s Guild of Pittsburgh (Due 3/20)
  • Call for Applications for Tunes, Brews & A Shopping Excuse’s Everyone & Their Mother Fest at Allegheny City Brewing (Rolling deadline)

Calls for Artists & Submissions

  • Call for Applications* for Solo Exhibition at Sweetwater Center for the Arts’ Mezzanine Gallery (Due 5/1)
  • Call for Submissions of feature films for Three Rivers Film Festival (Due 3/31)  
  • Call for Submissions of short films or scripts for Three Rivers Film Festival’s Shorts & Scripts Competition (Due 3/31) 
  • Call for Submissions for Pittsburgh Fringe Festival’s Group Visual Arts Show at Mr. Roboto Project (Due 3/13)
  • Call for Applications for Pittsburgh Center for Arts & Media’s Spring Artists’ Market (Due 3/22)
  • Call for Submissions from creatives for Remaining Rooted Collective’s Easter Project (Due 3/13)
  • Call for Submissions of photography, art, poetry, and fiction for RMU’s Literary Magazine (Due 3/13)
  • Call for Submissions from writers aged 19 and under for Write Pittsburgh’s youth publishing initiative WRITE of Way online literary magazine (Due 3/25)

Grants & Funding

  • Call for Applications for Visit Pittsburgh’s Festivals & Cultural Events Marketing Fund (Due 3/16)
  • Call for Applications for Main Streets Allegheny’s Implementation & Placemaking Grants and Events & District Activation Grants (Due 3/22)
  • Call for Applications from nonprofits for Citizens Bank’s Champions in Action award (Due 3/13)
  • Call for Applications* from artists and photographers for the Innovate Grant (Due 3/19)

Requests for Proposals & Qualifications

  • Call for Proposals on innovative sessions for Eradicate Hate's Global Summit (Due 3/20)
  • Request for Proposals from experienced development consultants for the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council's 2026 Development Plan (Due 3/15)

Regional and National Artistic Opportunities 

Artist Residencies, Fellowships, & Professional Development

  • Call for Applications for Craft Archive Fellowship (Due 5/20)
  • Call for Applications from writers of color who write critically about visual art for Irene Yamamoto Arts Writers Fellowship (Due 3/16)
  • Call for Applications for Penumbra Foundation Risograph Residency in NYC (Due 3/31)
  • Call for Applications from emerging printmaking artists for Keyholder Residency Program in NYC, NY (Due 4/1)
  • Call for Applications for The Center for Cartoon Studies’ Cornish CCS Residency Fellowship in Cornish, NH (Due 4/3)
  • Call for Applications for Susan Cooley Gilliom Artist in Residence & Teaching Program in Roseville, CA (Due 3/8)
  • Call for Applications from women makers and creative entrepreneurs for the 2026 Anthropologie x Nest Fellowship Program (Due 3/16)

Calls for Artists & Submissions

Grants & Funding

  • Call for Entries from painters aged 45 and older for The Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Grant for Painters (Due 4/1)
  • Call for Applications from artists who identify as a woman, transgender, and/or gender-nonconforming for Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grants (Due 4/7)
  • Call for Proposals from individual artists for The Creative Capital Award (Due 4/2)
  • Call for Applications from America250PA partners (as of December 31, 2025) for National Pennsylvania Day Mini Grants (Due 3/13)
  • Call for Applications from artists 27 years old and under for Mary Bowman Arts in Activism Award 2026 (Due 7/1)
  • Call for Applications for The Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation 2026 Grant for Writing on Sculpture (Due 5/31)
  • Call for Applications from mission-driven nonprofit organizations that have a specific focus on supporting immigrants in the arts, sciences, education, or through the provision of social services for 2026 Vilcek Foundation Grants (Due 4/30)
  • Call for Applications from nonprofit organizations for Introduction Mid Atlantic Arts’ Folk and Traditional Arts Community Projects Grants ranging from $1,000-5,000 (Due 4/30)
  • Call for Applications for Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art (Due 4/1)
  • Call for Applications from working musicians, songwriters, and producers/engineers for The Dag Foundation Music Grant (Due 3/18)
  • Call for Applications from visual artists for The Dag Foundation Visual Arts Grant (Due 3/18)
  • Call for Applications from literary artists who have published one book of prose for adults with a nationally distributed U.S. press and have a second book underway for The Dag Foundation Literature Grant (Due 3/18)

Requests for Proposals & Qualifications

*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.

Category

Arts Opportunities

Support the arts in our region—your donation helps us provide resources, opportunities, and advocacy for artists and cultural organizations.