Tiny Talk: Living Room Editions with Soren Lundi
Thursday, August 26th
6pm

​We're concluding our 2021 Summer season with Soren Lundi! Soren's intricately beaded pieces have been a popular staple at Small Mall. Purchase your tickets for this event here to celebrate an end to another season of Tiny Talks!

​Cost of attendance is $5-20 sliding scale. Ticket purchase is required to receive the Zoom link. Your link will be in the PDF file that's connected to this event, please proceed to download the digital item once you checkout. If you're having trouble accessing your link, email Eriko at eriko@smallmallpgh.com

More about Soren Lundi:

​Soren Lundi is a Pittsburgh-based bead and paper artist. Soren creates hand-beaded jewelry inspired by nature, mixing flora and fauna with rococo sensibilities. He also crafts paper flowers and paper flower bouquets.

Tiny Talk: Living Room Editions with Dinner Bell Mag
Thursday, August 12
6pm

​We're coming back from our summer break with a Tiny Talk with Dinner Bell Mag! Join us and Small Mall for an experimental talk and workshop

​Cost of attendance is $5-20 sliding scale. Ticket purchase is required to receive the Zoom link. You can purchase a ticket at the button below. Your link will be in the PDF file that's connected to this event, please proceed to download the digital item once you checkout. If you're having trouble accessing your link, email Eriko at eriko@caseydroege.com.

​More about Dinner Bell Mag:

​Dinner Bell Magazine is a (weird) food writing publication. It serves as a creative space for anyone to experiment with how they write about food. Dinner Bell Mag uses the theme of food loosely, acknowledging that stories about food are perhaps not about food at all. They publish stories about food that exist outside of the traditional food writing framework. 

 Dinner Bell Mag strives to highlight work from BIPOC, queer, emerging, and rural contributors. They are an organization founded by white queer people, and operate with anti-racist values. They believe that writing about food can be an expansive, inclusive, and ultimately therapeutic practice. 

Tiny Talk: Living Room Editions with Paul Peng
Saturday, July 10th
6pm

​We're so excited to have Paul Peng join us for a Tiny Talk! Join us and Casey Droege Cultural Productions to hear about his work and his process.

Cost of attendance is $5-20 sliding scale. Ticket purchase is required to receive the Zoom link. Your link will be in the PDF file that's connected to this event, please proceed to download the digital item once you checkout. If you're having trouble accessing your link, email Eriko at eriko@caseydroege.com.

More about Paul:

​Paul Peng (b. 1994) is a drawing-based contemporary artist whose work combines formal mark-making with cartoon figuration, the latter being rooted in his upbringing around internet-based folk art in communities surrounding furry culture and mass media fandoms. He holds a BCSA in Computer Science and Art from Carnegie Mellon University and has also studied classical drawing at Barnstone Studios in Coplay, PA and experimental drawing at the Ox-Bow School of Art in Saugatuck, MI.

Since completing undergrad in 2017, Paul has shown in multiple group and solo shows across Pittsburgh and has also exhibited work as part of a group show in Philadelphia at Little Berlin in 2018. He has also collaborated with experimental comics publisher 2dcloud, who has published excerpts from his sketchbook on their website and released an interview with him in their fifth issue of Altcomics Magazine.

Tiny Talk: Living Room Editions with Dominick McDuffie
Thursday, July 1st
6pm

​We're thrilled to have Dominick McDuffie join us for a Tiny Talk! Join us and Small Mall to hear about his work in art and photography.

Click here to purchase your tickets. ​Cost of attendance is $5-20 sliding scale. Ticket purchase is required to receive the Zoom link. Your link will be in the PDF file that's connected to this event, please proceed to download the digital item once you checkout. If you're having trouble accessing your link, email Eriko at eriko@smallmallpgh.com.

​More about Dominick:

​Dominick McDuffie is a Pittsburgh based self taught artist. His main medium is film photography. His work is centered in authentically documenting the community around him. 

Tiny Talk: Living Room Editions with Caldwell Linker
Thursday, June 24th
6pm

Join us and Small Mall for our first Tiny Talk event of the summer! We're thrilled to have Caldwell Linker as our first guest. 

Cost of attendance is $5-20 sliding scale. Ticket purchase is required to receive the Zoom link. Your link will be in the PDF file that's connected to this event, please proceed to download the digital item once you checkout. If you're having trouble accessing your link, email Eriko at eriko@smallmallpgh.com.

More about Caldwell:

Caldwell grew up white and socialized female in the American south (North Carolina), and landed in Pittsburgh after bouncing around the US for a bit.  Documentary photography of queer communities in these various locations occupied 15ish years of its life, but more recently Caldwell has turned to beadwork as a primary artistic outlet.  Caldwell is self-taught in the area of the arts,  but their degree in Women's Studies (later Gender Studies) and subsequent learning influences almost all aspects of their art practice.   Other major influences are a deep love of color, assorted mental health struggles, and an internal momentum to try new things.  And, of course, the desire for loads of money almost all artists have thrown at them regularly.  Other fun facts: Caldwell is queer and gender queer as all get out, is great at finding four leaf clovers, is passionate about cheese, and was included in an illustration in Highlights magazine (as an adult).  It currently lives in Lawrenceville with two large black and white dogs Marvin and Valentine.

Coming up on Wednesday, April 21st is our Tiny Talk featuring artist Mak O'Connor! We're looking forward to talking with Mak and hearing about her work and process as an artist. 

Cost of admission is $5-$20, sliding scale. To attend, you must purchase at smallmallpgh.com. Participants will receive a Zoom link to the event one hour before the event begins.

More about Mak:

Mak O’Connor is an artist, designer, and researcher based in Pittsburgh, PA. With a background in global health and a graduate degree in design science, Mak is drawn to the multidisciplinary potentials of art, design, and health. Interested in how the built environment shapes behavior, she offers her energy towards (re)designing and (re)thinking the built environment to provide humans and our living counterparts with the best possible stage for the performance of life. 

Exploring how space-making informs meaning-making, Mak uses paint to illuminate our reciprocal and continuous interactions with the built environment, our living counterparts, and with each other. She is particularly interested in self-destructive behaviours, and more specifically how the limitations of normative expression may fuel self-harm. She thinks about creative expression as rebellion and as a redirection of self-destructive energies. Coming to understand freedom of self-expression as a key factor in healing, she is asking how we might find visceral safety through perceptual emancipation.

Coming up on Thursday, March 25th is our Tiny Talk featuring artist Deanna Mance! We're looking forward to talking with Deanna and hearing about her work and process as an artist. 

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Cost of admission is $5-$20, sliding scale.To attend, you must purchase a ticket at smallmallpgh.com. Participants will receive a Zoom link to the event one hour before the event begins.

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More about Deanna:

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Deanna Mance is a self taught artist based in Pittsburgh, Pa. Working predominantly with ink and gouache on paper, her work explores the interplay of the conscious and unconscious and the relationship between nature and human experience. Her detailed drawings contain geometric motifs organically arranged, including imagery symbolic of family-based faith and heirlooms, ancestral history, transmutation of death and rebirth, and personal relationship to ritual and spirituality. Using spontaneous mark-making and freehand drawing techniques, her compositions form without inhibition or premeditation. Through this approach, she embraces the unpredictable qualities and uncertain outcomes of the work. 

Mance’s work has been exhibited in galleries and museums including The Carnegie Museum of Art, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Bankside Gallery in London and the Pittsburgh International Airport. In 2016 she created Pittsburgh’s first asphalt mural, City Composition, on Strawberry Way. The mural was the recipient of “Best Street Transformation, People’s Choice” from Streetsblog, USA. 

Coming up on Friday, March 12th is our Tiny Talk featuring artist Shori Sims! Join us for a short talk with Shori and on her work and process as an artist.
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Cost of admission is $5-$20, sliding scale.To attend, you must purchase at smallmallpgh.com. Participants will receive a Zoom link to the event one hour before the event begins.
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More about Shori:
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Shori Sims was born in 1999 in Baltimore, Maryland and now works in Pittsburgh, PA attending Carnegie Mellon University. She is currently pursuing her BFA with a minor in Africana Studies.

An interdisiplinary artist, Shori finds herself grounded in representation. Essential themes of her work include the black female body as a site of resistance, African American identity, and the symbolic language shared amongst Black womxn/queers: especially as propagated through online space. Shori is fascinated by the possibilities found within alternate universes and liminal space: both through and beyond the body. References in Shori’s work include shoujo anime, beauty-supply stores, bodegas and gas-stations, and the aesthetics of pornography: combining to form an autobiography of her girlhood experience.