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Artistic Jobs and Opportunities Roundup: May 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

Regional and National Artistic Opportunities  

  • Call for Applications for the 2025-2026 Eisemann Edge Initiative Grant, which includes an additional travel stipend for folks outside of North Texas Region (Due June 30)

  • Call for Applications from scientific illustrators for The Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Bartels Science Illustration Residency Program (Due May 23)

  • Call for Applications from college photography students, professional photographers with six years or less experience, and U.S. military photographers for The Eddie Adams Workshop (Due June 1)

  • Call for Submissions for poetry, prose, essays, flash, fiction, comics, illustrations, and photography at Fine Print Paper (Due August 1)

  • Call for Applications from filmmakers for The Miller / Packan Film Fund (Due May 15)

  • Call for Applications for Ben & Jerrys Foundation's National Grassroots Organizing Grant Program

  • Call for Applications from musical artists for Let Music Fill My World's The Music Matters Challenge

  • Call for Applications for New EMA's 2025 Emerging Professional Leadership Council (Due June 2)

  • Call for Applications from high school seniors for 2026 Andrew Lloyd Webber Initiative’s University Scholarships (Due May 23)

  • Call for Applications for American Craft Made Baltimore 2026 (Due May 30)

  • Call for Submissions for iScience's special issue, "Transdisciplinary Approaches to Arts and Health" (Due August 30)

  • Call for Grant Applications from the Vilcek Foundation to support nonprofit organizations that work with immigrant artists and communities, and that promote diversity in the arts, sciences, education, and humanities (Due June 30)

  • Call for Proposals for Re-Imagining Health Through the Arts: Participating in the Arts is a Health Behavior (Due May 17)

  • Call for Applications from Black, Indigenous, and/or persons of color (BIPOC) for CultivArt Mini-Grant Program (Due May 19)

  • Call for Applications for The International Society for the Performing Arts’ (ISPA) Global Fellowship (Due May 16)

  • Call for Entries for the 18th International ARC (Art Renewal Center) Salon Competition (Due June 12)

  • Request for Proposals for ProjectArt's Teaching Artist Residency (Due June 3)

  • Call for Applications for Craft Archive Fellowship (Due May 20)

  • Call for Student Applications for the POISE Foundation's Opportunity Scholarship (Due June 15)

  • Call for Applications for The NAMM Foundation's Music Research Grants (Due June 6)

  • Call for Applications for 2025 Arts Ed Leadership Academy (Due May 16)

  • Call for Applications for The Hopper Prize artist grants (Due May 13)

  • Call for Applications from active, early-career Jewish artists between the ages of 25 and 35 for Naomi Anolic Early Career Jewish Visual Arts Award (Due June 1)

  • Request for Proposals for Josephine Sculpture Park 2025-2026 Artist-in-Residence Program in Kentucky (Due May 14)

  • Call for Applications from painting artists for the Chiaro Award and Artist Residency in California (Due June 5)

  • Call for Applications for BANFF Centre for Arts and Creativity's Early Career Writers of Young Adult and Children's Books 2025 Writing Residency (Due June 4)

  • Call for Applications for ​​Mothers in Art Residency in Finland (Due May 15)

  • Call for Applications from female watercolor artists for Women in Watercolor International Juried Competition (Due June 8)

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

  • Call for Applications for Women's Studio Workshop's Studio Workspace Residency in New York (Due June 15)

  • Call for Applications from sculpture artists for Sculpture Missoula's Public Sculpture Garden in Montana (Due May 15)

  • Call for Applications for Studios of Key West's Peyton Evans Artist Residency Program in Florida (Due May 15)

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.

*Full-time job openings are indicated by Salary; part-time and freelance jobs are indicated with Compensation.

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