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JOB POSTING: Pedantic Arts seeks Executive Director
Job Description: Executive Director
Salary Range: $75,000 – 82,500
About Pedantic Arts
Pedantic Arts is a Pittsburgh-based arts incubator that nurtures visual artists, writers, and curators who are seeking connection. We host mid-career creatives from across the world through our immersive, interdisciplinary residency program and research grants, providing space and curated resources to deepen and inspire their artistic practice.
Pedantic was established in 2021 by Headwater Media and Casey Droege Cultural Productions and transitioned to non-profit status in 2026. Pedantic and its building located in the Garfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh were both conceived as mechanisms to enhance the neighborhood’s vibrant arts corridor while creating intentional space for creative development and network building, both for cohort members and Pittsburgh’s larger cultural community.
Our Goals
Strengthen local arts ecosystem
Create networks between local, national, and international creatives
Build community
Foster greater discourse across sectors and institutional silos
Increase opportunities for curatorial and critical development
Help to sustain a vibrant and supportive cultural economy
Support creative process rather than production
What We Do
HOST: Welcoming, hosting, and supporting artists and creatives locally and from across the country in the City of Pittsburgh and its multidimensional arts community
MATCHMAKER: Making connections across disciplines to create space for inspiration or new/deeper ideas
MUSE: Fostering the artistic practice without strings attached, paid residency with no requirement of output
ADVOCATE: Modeling a new future for artistic infrastructure that invests in creators and cares for them holistically
How We Do It
Pittsburgh as a Hub: Acting as a bridge between local and global creativity.
Space & Place: Using the Pedantic apartment in Garfield as a literal and metaphorical “home” for creativity. Offering the hospitality of a beautiful, central space in an artistic hub of Pittsburgh.
People: A welcoming community curated to support and connect you with the city.
The Cohort Model: Intentionally interdisciplinary, pairing a visual artist, a curator/organizer, and a writer to spark connections and dialogue (cross-pollination of writers with curators and artists is especially unique).
Immersion: Not a residency where you hole up in a quiet room alone — an invitation to connect, discover, and explore.
Non-Production Focus: Providing the “freedom to explore” instead of the “requirement to produce.”
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Submit your work to The Art Supply Co.
The Art Supply Co., our art consulting arm, accepts rolling submissions from artists year-round. We review submissions twice a year and we’ll reach out if we’re interested in your work
Get involved with Pedantic Arts Residency
Do you live in Pittsburgh? Are you interested in becoming involved with Pittsburgh Arts Residency?
Fill out the form at the button below and we will be in touch as opportunities arise. Pittsburgh is defined as the counties considered part of the greater Pittsburgh metropolitan area: Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Fayette, Washington, and Westmoreland.