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Artistic Jobs and Opportunities Roundup: October 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

  • Call for Auditions for Viola (Assistant Principal + 2 section positions) at Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (Due 11/9)
  • Call for Auditions for Second Bassoon at Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (Due 11/9)
  • Call for Auditions from Equity actors for She Loves Me, Purpose, and Les Misérables at Confluence Theater of Pittsburgh (10/16)

Artist Residencies, Fellowships, & Professional Development

  • Call for Applications from Pittsburgh-area artists for Studio Residencies at the Mattress Factory (Due 11/9)
  • Call for Applications from Black music teaching artists for the 2027 Beckom-Freeman Teaching Artist-in-Residence Program by UniSound (Due 10/12)
  • Call for Applications for Visiting Artist & Program Apprentice at Pittsburgh Glass Center (Due 10/31)
  • Call for Applications for Exhibitions & Retail Apprentice at Pittsburgh Glass Center (Due 10/31)
  • Call for Applications for Post-Production and Episodic Series Emerging Filmmaker positions at INDENT Emerging Filmmaker Collaborative (Due 10/30)
  • Call for Applications for Regional Artist Residencies at Contemporary Craft (Due 11/5)
  • Call for Applications* for Sweetwater Center for the Art Ceramic Artist in Residence (Due 11/30)

Vendor & Market Opportunities

  • Call for Vendors for Kaila Carter Dance Cohort's showcase "Let Me In, Let Me Out" (Due 10/19)
  • Call for Applications from Western Pennsylvania publishers and literary organizations for table space at Scribble House Lit Fest (Due 11/1)
  • Call for Applications* from makers for vendor spots at the Bloomfield Saturday Market Winter Season (Due 10/20)
  • Call for Vendors for The Mocktail Mixer 2027 marketplace at Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall by Teetotal Initiative (Rolling deadline)

Calls for Artists & Submissions

  • Call for Entries* from photographers for Fellowship 27 at Silver Eye Center for Photography (Due 11/19)
  • Call for Submissions from Allegheny County high school students for the 2027 "I Voted" Sticker Contest by Allegheny County Elections Division (Due 12/31)
  • Call for Entries* from Pittsburgh-area ceramic artists for the Pittsburgh Ceramics Showcase at Eberle Studios (Due 10/29)
  • Call for Submissions from Pittsburgh-based artists for the Mere Happenstance group show at Happenstance Cafe (Due 10/31)
  • Call for Participation* from printmakers for exhibitions, portfolio exchanges, panels, and events at Confluence: SGCI 2027 Biennial Conference (Due 10/31)
  • Call for Applications from Pennsylvania artists to create science-inspired art at the SICB 2027 Annual Meeting by the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology and Skype a Scientist (Due 11/20)

Grants & Funding

  • Call for Entries from small Allegheny County nonprofits for Non-Profit Nebby, a marketing strategy session and $2,000 grant by YaJagoff Media (Due 10/17)

Requests for Proposals & Qualifications

  • Request for Proposals from consultants to lead strategic planning for Brew House Arts (Due 11/20)
  • Call for Proposals from theater artists for the Theater Arts Workshop for middle and high school students by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust (Due 11/2)
  • Request for Qualifications for Designer for Branding and Printed Publications at Brew House Arts (Due 11/6)
  • Request for Proposals from individuals or firms for a Creative Strategist to shape creative investment in Downtown Pittsburgh by the City of Pittsburgh (Due 11/13)

Call for Nominations

Regional and National Artistic Opportunities  

Artist Residencies, Fellowships, & Professional Development

  • Call for Applications for the Industry, Labor, and Community Artist in Residence program at West Virginia University Libraries in Morgantown, WV (Due 11/30)
  • Call for Applications from graduate students and scholars in art history and related fields for the Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program in Washington, DC (Due 10/15)
  • Call for Applications from early-career playwrights for Jerome Fellowships by Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, MN (Due 12/3)
  • Call for Applications from early-career Black playwrights, playwrights of color, and/or Indigenous playwrights for Many Voices Fellowships by Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, MN (Due 12/3)
  • Call for Applications from book artists and fine press printers for the Black Rock Press Artist Fellowship by the University of Nevada, Reno in Reno, NV (Due 11/2)
  • Call for Applications from multidisciplinary artists for Performance Lab residencies by HERE Arts Center in New York, NY (Due 10/31)
  • Call for Applications from writers working on a first or second book for the Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA (Due 2/1)
  • Call for Applications from artists outside the prairie region for the Ecoregion Exchange residency at Tallgrass Artist Residency in Matfield Green, KS (Due 10/31)
  • Call for Applications from sound, radio, and transmission artists for 2027 residencies and fellowships at Wave Farm in Acra, NY (Due 12/1)
  • Call for Applications from mid-career public artists and built-environment practitioners for the Loeb Fellowship and Loeb/ArtLab Fellowship at Harvard Graduate School of Design in Cambridge, MA (Due 1/5)
  • Call for Applications from formerly incarcerated artists for the Center Fellowship by the Center for Art and Advocacy (Due 10/25)
  • Call for Applications from early mid-career playwrights, choreographers, and theatre, dance, and performance scholars for Howard Foundation Fellowships (Due 11/1)
  • Call for Applications for micro-residencies at Bischoff Inn in Tamaqua, PA (Due 12/20)
  • Call for Applications from early-career women and non-binary people of color in design fields for the Sara Little Turnbull Fellowship at Tiny WPA in Philadelphia, PA (Due 11/1)
  • Call for Applications* from print and book artists for the Daisy Lane Residency at Bainbridge Island Museum of Art in Bainbridge Island, WA (Due 12/1)
  • Call for Submissions* of new musicals for the Newport NewWorks Musical Theater Festival in Newport, RI (Due 11/15)
  • Call for Applications from visual artists, writers, and musicians for 2027 residencies at Great Basin National Park in Baker, NV (Due 10/30)
  • Call for Applications* for seven-week residencies at Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency in Joshua Tree, CA (Due 12/15)
  • Call for Applications for Sweetwater Artist Member Initiative (SAMI) at Sweetwater Center for the Arts (Due 11/30)
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Vendor & Market Opportunities

  • Call for Artists to sell work on Pinstripe World, an online art marketplace (Rolling deadline)

Calls for Artists & Submissions

  • Call for Submissions from artists and curators for exhibitions and projects at Florida Mining Gallery in Jacksonville, FL (Due 10/15)
  • Call for Submissions* of poetry, fiction, essays, art, and photography for Anti-Heroin Chic (Due 10/26)
  • Call for Entries* from ceramic artists for the 2027 International Juried Ceramics Exhibition at The Center for Contemporary Art in Bedminster, NJ (Due 11/12)
  • Call for Submissions of mini zines for Zine Machine's Winter '27 Edit (Due 10/31)
  • Call for Submissions from public high school seniors for the Penguin Random House Creative Writing Awards (Due 1/15)
  • Call for Submissions* from women and nonbinary artists for Small Works at Yellow Studio Arts Center in Cross River, NY (Due 10/21)
  • Call for Submissions* of short and feature films for the Taos Film Festival in Taos, NM (Due 11/1)
  • Call for Pitches from artists and arts workers for paid essays on Inciter Art by Fractured Atlas (Due 11/2)

Grants & Funding

  • Call for Applications from Pennsylvania creative entrepreneurs for Creative Entrepreneur Accelerator Grants by Keystone Creatives, a collaboration between Pennsylvania Creative Industries and Bridgeway Capital (Due 12/31)
  • Call for Applications* for the First Flights Short Film Fund (Due 10/31)
  • Call for Submissions* of short film scripts and in-progress films for Shore Scripts Short Film Fund (Due 10/30)
  • Call for Letters of Inquiry for Artistic Production Grants by VIA Art Fund (Due 11/5)
  • Call for Applications from early- and mid-career women, trans, and non-binary audio creators for MicroGrants by We Are Moving The Needle (Due 10/18 mid-career and 10/25 early-career)
  • Call for Applications* from visual artists for the Hopper Prize (Due 11/17)
  • Call for Applications from chronically ill, mentally ill, and disabled sculptors for micro-grants by SICK Magazine (Due 10/14)
  • Call for Applications from unpublished diverse children's book writers and illustrators for Walter Dean Myers Grants by We Need Diverse Books (Due 10/31)
  • Call for Applications from established painters, sculptors, and artists working on paper for Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants (Rolling deadline)

Requests for Proposals & Qualifications

  • Request for Qualifications for a permanent public artwork at Howard County Public Garden by Howard County Arts Council in Glenwood, MD (Due 10/30)
  • Call for Proposals from artists and arts organizations for the Co-Production Program at the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder, CO (Rolling deadline)
  • Call for Expressions of Interest for bike locker wrap artwork by the City of Waterloo in Waterloo, ON (Due 10/22)
  • Call for Proposals from artists and arts organizations to present sessions at the 2027 CA Arts & Culture Summit in Sacramento, CA (Due 10/19)

Call for Nominations

  • Call for Nominations for the Michael D. Eisner Arts & Culture Fellowship by the Aspen Institute (Due 11/3)

*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 advocate for artists not being asked to do unpaid work before applying for opportunities. The one exception we make is contests for youth, from early childhood through high school, since these can be completed as part of an arts curriculum and can spark a lasting interest in the arts. Please review all guidelines before submitting.

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