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Jobs
What: Digital Strategy & Business Development Associate (PT)
Who: New Information focuses on brand strategy, identity, digital, and publication design for cultural institutions and businesses across the arts, design, technology, and fashion.
Where: Brooklyn, NY
How much: $40-60/hr
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What: Development Officer (PT)
Who: Epiphany is a semiannual print and online publication that supports practicing writers at every stage of their careers.
Where: New York, NY
How much: $20k (10-15 hrs/wk)
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What: Membership Services Manager (PT)
Who: Female Design Council is a professional network and advocacy organization for women in design, architecture and the applied arts.
Where: Remote (monthly travel to NYC)
How much: $34-45/hr (15-20 hrs/wk)
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What: Library Field Ranger
Who: Metropolitan New York Library Council’s mission is to create a sustainable culture of creativity, collaboration, and open exchange for libraries, archives, museums, and cultural institutions.
Where: New Castle, NY
How much: $70k
What: Interpretive Planner
Who: Museum of Fine Arts Boston showcases ancient artistry and modern masterpieces, local legends and global visionaries.
Where: Boston, MA
How much: $65-68k
What: Head of Scholarly Publication/Editor
Who: National Museum of Asian Art is committed to preserving, exhibiting, researching, and interpreting art in ways that deepen our collective understanding of Asia and the world.
Where: Washington DC
How much: $102,415–119,485
What: Assistant or Associate Editor
Who: The Paris Review is a quarterly literary magazine.
Where: New York, NY
How much: $55-70k
What: Assistant Gardener
Who: Verdant NY is a landscape design and build studio.
Where: Brooklyn, NY
How much: $25-30/hr
What: Digitization Archivist
Who: Letterform Archive is a center for inspiration, education, publishing, and community in graphic design.
Where: San Francisco, CA
How much: $78-88k
What: Web & Graphics Specialist
Who: Rice School of Architecture is an international center of design research, experimentation, and debate.
Where: Houston, TX
How much: $65-69k
What: Designer; Lead Designer
Who: Upstatement is a strategic design studio that builds brands through digital.
Where: Boston, MA
How much: $85-120k; $120-140k
What: Associate Director, Products & Business Relations
Who: New York Public Library is a free provider of education and information for the people of New York and beyond.
Where: New York, NY
How much: $150-160k
What: Freelance Services Coordinator
Who: American Federation of Musicians is the largest organization in the world representing professional instrumental musicians playing in orchestras, bands, clubs, and theater.
Where: New York, NY
How much: $60-65k
What: Director of Conservation
Who: Detroit Institute of the Arts strives to be the town square of our community.
Where: Detroit, MI
How much: $108,047-135,058
What: Associate Director of Communications
Who: Urban Design Forum connects and inspires New Yorkers to design, build, and care for a better city.
Where: New York, NY
How much: $82,500
What: Sr. Engineer, Digital Products
Who: National Domestic Workers Alliance is one of the country’s leading social movement organizations.
Where: Remote (US)
How much: $130-140k
What: Archive Fellow (PT, Temp)
Who: Visual Aids utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over.
Where: New York, NY
How much: $25/hr
What: Sr. Manager, Marketing Editorial & Web Content (Temp)
Who: Lincoln Center is a cultural and civic cornerstone of New York City.
Where: New York, NY
How much: $50-60/hr
What: Studio Designer (PT, Freelance)
Who: Fisk Projects is a full-service creative studio.
Where: Remote (US)
How much: $35/hr
What: Sr. Service Designer
Who: Colorado Governor's Office of Information Technology improves the lives of all Coloradans through innovation and collaboration.
Where: Remote within Colorado
How much: $115-145k
What: Assistant Director
Who: The Digital Transgender Archive is a freely available online collection of over 14,000 trans-related historical materials.
Where: Oakland, CA
How much: $74,640-105,427
What: Education Associate (PT)
Who: Green-Wood Cemetery is more than a cemetery—it is a National Historic Landmark, an accredited arboretum, an outdoor museum, and a cultural hub rooted in the heart of Brooklyn.
Where: Brooklyn, NY
How much: $25/hr
What: Design Coordinator
Who: Blue Green Works is a lighting and design studio.
Where: New York, NY
How much: $70-80k
What: Communications Specialist
Who: Kendrick Arts Group stewards composer estates’ catalogs and grantmaking initiatives.
Where: New York, NY/Remote
How much: $70-75k
What: Program Officer
Who: Brooklyn Org is a partner and platform for local philanthropy that gives everyone a part to play in creating change from the ground up.
Where: Brooklyn, NY
How much: $85-92k
What: Marketing & Communications Manager; Associate Director
Who: New York International Children’s Film Festival presents thoughtful, provocative, intelligent film for all ages.
Where: New York, NY
How much: $55-60k; $70-75k
What: Analyst, Tech & Society; Sr. Analyst, Tech & Society; Executive Assistant, Tech & Society
Who: HR&A is building a new Tech & Society Studio with a mission to help communities build and use technology to solve problems made worse by technology.
Where: Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, or Washington DC (Analyst roles); New York, NY (EA role)
How much: $83,200–98,571; $105,100–122,673; $75-87k
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Calls
New Call for Submissions: Van Alen - Open Access: Exploring 130 Years of American Design Exhibition Open Call | Deadline: 6/28
Van Alen invites emerging designers to respond to its archive through projects that provoke reflection on the progression of design access, and position the archive as living material.
New Call for Submissions: Bloodletter Magazine Print Chapbook - Migrant Voices in Horror | Deadline: 6/30
Feminist horror magazine Bloodletter invites first- and second-generation migrant poets and artists identifying as women, trans, and/or non-binary to submit work that offers an inclusive, expansive, and feminist perspective on the horror genre—or more broadly, the horrific.
New Call for Submissions: Wendy’s Subway 2026 Book Prize | Deadline: 7/24
The author will publish a book with Wendy’s Subway within 18 months, and receive an honorarium of $1,250 and 25 author copies. Books are published as part of the Passage Series, which features books by emerging writers and artists whose work manifests in innovative, hybrid, and cross-genre forms.
New Call for Pitches: Chicago Review of Architecture Call | Deadline: 6/19
Chicago Review of Architecture is a special project from New York Review of Architecture that seeks to generate erudite, humorous, and hyperlocal writing on the built (and unbuilt) environment. ChiRA is seeking pitches for 350- to 500-word capsule reviews from Chicago- or Midwest-based writers.
Residency: ProjectArt Detroit Teaching Artist Residency | Deadline: 6/9
Call for Submissions: CriticalProductive Journal | Deadline: 6/10
Fellowship: MoMA Elaine and Alexandre Rosenberg Fellowship | Deadline: 6/10
Fellowship: 2026-2027 New City Critics Fellowship | Deadline: 6/11
Fellowship: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Design History and Material Culture at UW-Madison | Deadline: 6/12
Call for Applications: NEXT! Mentorship Program 2026/28 | Deadline: 6/15
Call for Submissions: 7ajr School for Creative Research/Resistance | Deadline: 6/15
Fellowship: Social Science Research Council Just Tech Fellowship | Deadline: 6/28
Residency: Exploratorium Artist in Residence | Deadline: 6/29
Funding: Franklin Furnace XENO PRIZE for Artists’ Books | Deadline: 7/4
Residency: 2027 Grand Canyon Artist in Residence | Deadline: 7/15
Call for Submissions: The Rest Fest Video Art & Short Film Submissions | Deadline: 8/28
Funding: Liu Shiming Artist Grants | Deadline: 8/31
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