Teaching Residency - ProjectArt (Due June 3)
Teaching Residency - ProjectArt
Deadline: June 3rd, 2025
Information Session: April 22nd, 2025
Applications Open: May 6th, 2025
ProjectArt is a national award-winning arts education nonprofit that provides free, after-school art classes for underserved youth while supporting practicing artists through residencies. We partner with public libraries to activate spaces where artists teach, create, and engage communities. Our work addresses the growing opportunity gap in arts education, impacting over two million students who lack access to visual arts programs in their schools.
Over the past 14 years, we’ve served 315 artists, 64 libraries, and over 13,000 students nationwide through artist residencies and weekly, holistic art programming.
The ProjectArt Teaching Artist Residency is designed for emerging, local visual artists who want to engage with youth, libraries and communities while expanding their artistic practice. Residents have a strong interest in developing career-building skills and connecting with a growing local and national network of artists. They are eager to learn through professional development opportunities and explore how public libraries can serve as a resource to inform and support their art-making. Above all, they possess a genuine, enthusiastic appreciation for teaching and mentorship.
This residency runs from August through May, culminating in a joint student and artist exhibition at a professional venue. It allows artists to refine their teaching practice, develop new work, and play a vital role in ProjectArt’s mission to increase visual arts access to youth who need it most.
Have questions about the residency?
Attend our live Information Session on Zoom
April 22nd, 2025 at 6:30 pm.
ProjectArt has been committed to providing free art education for ages 4-18 in Pittsburgh since 2017, and we are seeking a new talented and socially conscious artist cohort for our ArtCorps Residency, beginning in late August and lasting through June 2026.
Our residency in Pittsburgh offers visual artists the chance to expand their practice while making a difference in local communities. We believe that by sharing this opportunity with your network, we can collectively empower local artists to create a lasting impact while developing life-long, income earning skills.