Video courtesy of WQED Pittsburgh
Pedantic Arts Residency was recently featured on Pittsburgh’s local PBS Channel, WQED. As co-directors of this residency program, we’re thrilled to have Pedantic be spotlighted as a “unique and encouraging space for exploration and creativity.”
Make sure to join us on Friday, February 2 from 6-8pm to say goodbye to the Winter 2024 Cohort of the Pedantic Arts Residency. Click the button below to learn more.
Join us on Wednesday, January 10, 2024 to welcome our fourth Pedantic cohort. The Pedantic Residents will be giving brief presentations on their backgrounds and their practices.
Pedantic Arts Residency (Pedantic) is a month-long cross-disciplinary program co-hosted by Headwater Media and Casey Droege Cultural Productions. We have invited three residents whose practices span visual art, curating, and writing to explore the city of Pittsburgh and its creative communities.
Image of Visual Art Resident Laura（嘟嘟), courtesy of the artist
Headshot of Curatorial Resident Ulya Soley, courtesy of the artist
Headshot of Writing Resident Alysia Nicole Harris, taken by Melly Wirtes
This winter’s three residents include Laura（嘟嘟）(they/them), an Irvine, CA and New York, NY-based multidisciplinary artist and queer feminist and co-founder of Chinese Artists and Organizers whose art and community organizing reimagine the body, memory, and kinship particularly as it connects with food; Ulya Soley (she/her), a curator based in Istanbul, Turkey and working at Pera Museum whose recent projects explore future scenarios through a queer, feminist lens and delve into the history of queer nightlife and rave culture; and Alysia Nicole Harris (she/her), a performance poet and arts writer based in Corsicana, TX who is interested in the relationship between figuration and abstraction, painting and textiles, and explores themes of spirituality, physicality, beauty and pain.
This is a free event, and RSVP is requested to attend. To RSVP, please fill out the form here.
What: Pedantic Meet and Greet
When: Wednesday, January 10, 6:00-7:30pm
Where: KST Alloy Studios, 5530 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15206
Pedantic is an arts residency that brings together an artist, a curator, and a writer under one roof for a collaborative arts experience. It is a unique invitation to open greater and more cross-disciplinary dialogue within the arts by re-embracing the significant impact that education, study, and structured contemplation can have on artistic output. It is focused on fostering artistic connections rather than production.
CDCP is seeking applicants with practices in either visual art, curating, or arts and culture writing. Individuals working across multiple practices are welcome, though we request you identify one field you are most keen to engage with while participating. Applicants must be non-Pittsburgh residents* and must be available to live in Pittsburgh at the Pedantic apartment for the duration of the program dates.
To learn more and apply, click the button below.
The third Pedantic cohort landed in Pittsburgh last week. We’re thrilled to host them for the next month and are looking forward to seeing the connections they create with one another as well as with the city. Join us on Wednesday, June 14, 2023 to welcome and meet our third Pedantic cohort. Our first international group, the Pedantic Residents will be giving brief presentations on their backgrounds and their practices.
Headshot of Akea Brionne, courtesy of the artist
Headshot of Chenoa Baker, photo by Syracuse in Focus / The Daily Burst
Illustrated headshot of Chad Bilyeu, illustration by Dany Modesto Rodriguez
This summer’s three residents include Akea Brionne, a Creole lens-based artist and researcher based in Detroit, MI, whose work is rooted in an interdisciplinary exploration of the Black experience in America, with emphasis on the relationship between Black women and social geography; Chenoa Baker, a curator based in West Roxbury, MA whose work is based in anti-colonial, equitable, and collectivist work; and Chad Bilyeu, a Black American writer, historian, and photographer based in Leiden, the Netherlands, whose practice involves the creation of what is known in the comic industry as “full scripts”–scripts meant to provide an artist with dialogue, scenario, and expositional instructions.
This is a free event, and RSVP is requested to attend. To RSVP, please fill out the form here.
What: Pedantic Meet and Greet
When: Wednesday, June 14, 6:00-7:30pm
Where: KST Alloy Studios, 5530 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15206
CDCP just launched a residency program! Taking place at our project space in Wilkisburg, the CDCP Residency Program will provide selected artists, curators, and collectives the space and support to lead a self-driven practice. At the conclusion of the program, residents will have a solo show exhibiting the work they made during the residency. Residents will also have the chance to sell work at our concept store Small Mall.
If you’re interested in applying or know someone who’d be a great fit, check out our webpage for more details and to apply!
We are working with Radiant Hall to complete our curatorial residencies for 2017. This month we welcome Patrick Gantert and Rachel Schmidhofer. Patrick is an artist, curator, writer and producer living and working in Minneapolis and Rachel is an artist and curator in Brooklyn. During their overlapping residencies, they will work with local curator and artists Adam Welch to meet with area artists and participate in a panel discussion at CDCP Gallery on August 19th.
