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Artistic Jobs and Opportunities Roundup: September 2025

Pittsburgh-based Arts and Culture Job Openings

Remote Arts and Culture Job Openings

Pittsburgh-based Artistic Opportunities

  • Call for Applications from arts organizations in Allegheny, Beaver, Greene, and Washington counties with average annual revenues between $10,000 - $200,000 for Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council’s Creative Sector Flex Fund (Due October 31)

  • Call for Artist Applications and Nominations for The Pittsburgh Creative Corps with Shiftworks Community + Public Arts (Due September 8)

  • Call for Applications for Pittsburgh Center for Arts & Media's Winter Artists' Market (Due October 12)

  • Call for Applications from songwriters, spoken word artists, emcees, and poets between the ages of 13-18 for Allegheny County Youth Poet Laureate (Due September 30)

  • Call for Project Proposals from emerging and mid-career Western PA artists for New Hazlett Theater's CSA Performance Series (Due October 31 for Early Review)

  • Call for Applications for Eastern Standard Photo's Photographic Print Fair (Due September 17)

  • Call for Applications from Vendors and Performers for SpaceBurgh Festival at Riverview Park 

  • Call for Auditions for The Harmony Singers of Pittsburgh, Volunteer Performing Choral Group (September 16)

  • Call for Submissions for Studio 4’s Bodega Film Show (Due September 15)

  • Call for Applications for Visit Pittsburgh's PGH Insiders initiative (Due September 30)

  • Call for Auditions for Hill Dance Academy Theatre's production of an original musical (September 6)

  • Call for Auditions for Prime Stage Theatre’s production of Mr. Edgar A. Presents Tales of Mystery, Horror and Imagination (September 6-7)

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

  • Call for Scores from Pennsylvania composers for Pittsburgh Symphony's Schooltime program (Due September 15)

  • Call for Auditions for Prime Stage Theatre’s production of Speak (September 13-16)

  • Call for Submissions of social justice-themed artwork for Just Harvest's Just Art! Art Sale and Fundraiser (Due September 29)

  • Call for Applications from creative storytellers for AIGA Pittsburgh's PechaKucha Night Presentations (Due September 12)

  • Call for Auditions for R-ACT Theatre's production of A Christmas Carol (September 20 and 22)

  • Call for Poetry and Fiction Submissions for Carnegie Mellon University Press (Due September 15)

  • Call for Artist Submissions for a month-long solo exhibition with Studio 4 at Third Space Bakery (Due October 1)

  • Call for Art Submissions from artists within a 75-mile radius of Butler for The Butler Institute of American Art's 86th Area Artist Annual at the Butler (Due October 23)

Regional and National Artistic Opportunities  

  • Call for Applications for emerging leaders with disabilities for Disability Lead Southwestern PA’s Leadership Institute (Due September 19)

  • Call for Applications for The Pandora Short Film Grant (Due December 1)

  • Call for Submissions from Appalachian artists, photographers, writers, and designers for YNST Magazine (Rolling deadline)

  • Call for Artists for BLINK Light and Art Festival in Cinccinnati, Ohio (Due October 8)

  • Call for Applications from Women and LGBTQ+ Directors with a feature or documentary in development for Breaking Through the Lens’ $10,000 Action Grant (Due October 1)

  • Call for Session and Panel Proposals for The New York City Arts in Education Roundtable's Face to Face 2026 (Due September 23)

  • Call for Poetry Submissions for Rhonda Gail Williford Award for Poetry (Due September 30)

  • Request for Qualifications for NOW Art's Community Mural Program (Due December 31)

  • Call for Applications for Foundation House Artist Residency Program in Greenwich, CT (Due September 7)

  • Call for Applications for Hayama Artist Residency in Honshū, Japan (Due September 30)

  • Call for Artists for Smithsonian Craft Show in Washington, DC (Due September 16)

  • Call for Submissions for comics, strips, essays, collages, and more for Purgatory Comics Press anthology (Due November 1)

  • Call for Submissions for Fragmentation of Identity Online Exhibition (Due September 14)

  • Call for Applications from U.S. writers who identify as Black, Indigenous, or people of color for Periplus Fellowship (Due September 20)

  • Call for Research Proposals supporting original writing and scholarship about artists who have been lost to AIDS for Visual AIDS Research Fellowship (Due October 5) 

  • Call for Submissions for the New York Comedy Festival’s “Comics to Watch” live stand-up showcase (Due September 12)

  • Call for Applications for Recycled Artist in Residency (RAIR) in Philadelphia (Due September 30)

  • Call for Applications from artists whose work is primarily focused on the history and lived experience of North American federally recognized tribal citizens for Spring 2026 Edgar Heap of Birds Family Artist Residency at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture in Philadelphia (Due September 22)

  • Call for Artists for Cool Stop Commissioned Bus Shelter Sculpture in Longmont, Colorado (Due September 14)

  • Call for Submissions from artists working at the intersection of food and art for Culinary Artist in Residency at Ox-Bow in Saugatuck, Michigan (Due October 1)

  • Call for Applications for AlterWork Residency Program in Long Island City, NY (Due September 30)

  • Call for Applications for New Mexico Arts Artist Residency at Sandia Mountain Natural History Center in New Mexico (Due October 10)

  • Call for Artist RFQs for Logan Square Blue Line Station Public Art in Chicago, Illinois (Due September 29)

  • Call for Applications from fiction and nonfiction authors, poets, playwrights, translators, and journalists in need of short-term financial emergencies for PEN America’s U.S. Writers Aid Initiative (Due October 1)

  • Call for Submissions from U.S. women-identified artists for Independence for Whom? Amplifying Voices, Honoring Histories Exhibition at Workhorse Arts Center in Lorton, Virginia (Due January 31)

  • Call for Proposals for International Teaching Artists Conference in Belgium (Due September 30)

  • Call for Applications for the 2025 Edward Gorey House Envelope Art Contest: The Evil Garden (Due December 8)

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.

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