The Art Supply Co. (TASC) is pleased to announce a Call for Artist Portfolios for Art in the Heart at the Skinny Building, a public art project in Downtown Pittsburgh.

Artists are invited to submit samples of work to be considered for a commission of a temporary installation at the site, which is scheduled to open in Spring of 2024.

To learn more about this opportunity, click the button below.

 Keystone Progress Education Fund  + CDCP Exhibition Call for Artists

APPLICATIONS DUE Monday, August 14, 2023

CDCP is pleased to host a call for art in collaboration with the Keystone Progress Education Fund.

We’re seeking art that creates a dialogue around democracy as a whole and the current political climate, especially in a year when we have local/municipal elections. We want to explore how democracy impacts censorship, reproductive justice and abortion access, workers' rights, and economic justice; and, most importantly, what a healthy democracy should look like. Accepted artworks will be included in a two-part reception and exhibition running September–October 2023.

To learn more and apply, click the button below.

CDCP x WCDC Present: Megan Adgate

Artist Reception: Saturday, May 20th, 12:00PM

On view: May 6th - June 24th, 2023
Gallery hours: Saturdays 12-5pm

WCDC's Lohr Gallery
725 Wood St.
Pittsburgh, PA 15221

Pedantic Arts Residency Open Call

APPLICATIONS DUE: Sunday, January 22, 2023 at 11:59PM EST

Casey Droege Cultural Productions (CDCP) in partnership with Headwater Media is pleased to host a call for applications for the next two rounds of Pedantic Arts Residency. The summer session of Pedantic will run June 9 through July 8, 2023. The winter session will run January 5 through February 3, 2024. 

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.

If interested, please click the button below.

Free community workshop with Ashanté Josey and Naomi Chambers

Saturday, September 17th at Noon
WCDC Lohr Gallery
725 Wood Street

Free Mind: A collection of portraits by Ashanté Josey

On view Aug 27th-Oct 15th

Tiny Talk with Claira Heitzenrater

Thursday, 8/27, 8pm

​$5-20 Suggested Donation
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Our Tiny Talk series continues! Next up is Claira Heitzenrater.

Living Room Sessions will be pay-what-you-can between 

$5-20 to sign up. Proceeds will go to Small Mall staff and the artists to help them through this crisis. 

 To sign up, purchase a ticket at our website. You will receive an invitation link via email one hour before the event begins. 

More on Claira:

​Claira Heitzenrater is a contemporary painter, witch & educator living and working in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She holds an MFA in Painting from Edinboro University and a BFA in Studio Art from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She has been featured in issue 13 of Create! Magazine, volume 38 of Studio Visit Magazine, issue 11 of Fresh Paint Magazine, as well as various regional publications. She has completed residencies at SparkBox Studio in Picton, Ontario, Canada and the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont. Claira currently works as a teaching artist in Design at the Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild in the North side of Pittsburgh. She is a lover of animals, magick, nature, good music, tea, and a damn fine cup of coffee.

Small Mall x PGH Photo Fair present: 
Tiny Talk with Njaimeh Njie
Friday, July 23rd, 8pm

​FREE​

Small Mall and PGH Photo Fair are joining forces to collaborate for our Tiny Talk series! Photo Fair will not occur at the CMOA this year due to COVID-19 restrictions, but we're happy to be bringing you artist talks highlighting photographers in the region.

The event is free and guests must sign up in order to receive the Zoom link. The talk begins at 8pm EST.

Next up is Njaimeh Njie!

More on Njaimeh:

Njaimeh Njie is a photographer, filmmaker, and multimedia producer. Her work documents contemporary Black life, with a particular focus on the past shapes the present. Njie’s work has been featured in outlets including CityLab, Belt Magazine, and the Carnegie Museum of Art’s Storyboard Blog, and she has presented at venues including TEDxPittsburghWomen, Harvard University, and Carnegie Mellon University. Among several awards and grants, Njie was named the 2019 Visual Artist of the Year by the Pittsburgh City Paper, the 2019 Duquesne University/August Wilson House Fellow, and the 2018 Emerging Artist of the Year by the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. Njie earned her B.A. in Film and Media Studies in 2010 from Washington University in St. Louis.

Small Mall x PGH Photo Fair Tiny Talks are made possible by the William T. Hillman Foundation. 

Tiny Talk with Ali Karsh
Saturday, July 18th, 8pm

​$5-$20 suggested donation​

Small Mall artist Ali Karsh will be joining us for a Tiny Talk and Collage Workshop! Ali will be chatting briefly about her practice and how collaging continues to find its way back into her work. This event duals as a collage workshop that Ali will be leading where guests can collage with her.

Collage supplies are open-ended, but guests and encouraged to use some glue (glue stick, tape, Elmer's), paper (scraps, newspaper, magazines, love notes, photos), and cutting utensils (scissors, X-ACTO, paper punches) are a good place to start. It's also helpful to have a drawing utensil or two on hand just in case, and Ali believes the more color, the better!

Living Room Sessions will be pay-what-you-can between $5-20 to sign up. Proceeds will go to Small Mall staff and the artists to help them through this crisis.

Please sign up on our website in order to receive the Zoom link.

​More on Ali:

Ali Karsh is a designer and artist living in Pittsburgh. The art she makes is playful, friendly, and sometimes aggressively colorful. She uses drawing as a tool for thinking, observing, and experimenting with color and shape. She plays with clay to explore her obsession with the way objects and forms make people feel. She makes art that makes her smile and hopes it can do the same for others.

Tiny Talk and Collage Workshop with Ali Karsh
POSTPONED, please check back for updates

​Join us for a Tiny Talk and Collage Workshop with Ali Karsh! Ali will give a talk about how collaging has influenced and become an important part of her process. She will also lead participants in a collage workshop where everyone can share what they've made!

​Admission to this virtual event will be pay-what-you-can between $5-20. Please visit out webpage to reserve a spot.

Brent Nakamoto
Thursday, May 28th, 7pm

​Join us for a Tiny Talk with Brent Nakamoto! Brent will discuss meditative practices as a way of coping with uncertainty, and using empty time as an opportunity for skillful practice. In addition, he will discuss Japanese internment, personally having grown up with the story and legacy, and how thinking about the past can give us a perspective on the present and future.

​Admission to this virtual event will be pay-what-you-can between $5-20. Please visit our webpage to reserve a spot.

Theresa Baughman
Friday, May 22nd, 7pm

​Join us for a Tiny Talk with Theresa Baughman! Theresa will be talking about her process in making artwork. She'll discuss how she finds inspiration in limitations, and how her processes inform or even become the art itself.

​Admission to this virtual event will be pay-what-you-can between $5-20.  Please visit our webpage to sign up.

Nicole Czapinski and Alex Ebstein
Thursday, May 14th, 7pm

​Join us for a Tiny Talk with Nicole Czapinski and Alex Ebstein as they talk about they upcoming two-person exhibit, "Extra Fiber"! "Extra Fiber" is an exhibition happening later this year at CDCP Project Space featuring both of the artists' work.

​Admission to this virtual event will be pay-what-you-can between $5-20. Please visit the event’s webpage to reserve your spot and purchase tickets.

Spring Equinox Oracle Readings w/ Centa Schumacher
Thursday, March 19th

​5300 Butler St.
5-7PM 
$20 for 15 min
$35 for 30 min​

Join artist Centa Schumacher for a reading from their Oracle Card deck. The Spring Equinox is an optimal time to set intentions for the coming seasons. Please use the schedulers on the event page to make an appointment.

Jegan Mones Portrait Pop-Up
Thurs. March 12th
5-7pm

Small Mall
5300 Butler Street

Join us with Small Mall featured artist Jegan Mones for a custom digital portrait pop up!

Portraits will be created on-site at our shop. Photos can be taken of guests. Guests are encouraged to bring in photos if they'd like a specific photo recreated in Jegan's style! (www.jeganmones.com)

Animal photos are welcome as well.

Portrait pricing varies with size:
4x8 print - $10
8x11 print - $22
11x17 print - $28

Tiny Talk with Karen Lue
Thursday Feb. 27

5300 Butler Street
6-8pm
Free

Join us for a Tiny Talk and Micro Exhibit with Small Mall featured artist Karen Lue!

View and buy work by Karen and hear her give a tiny artist talk.

Event is free and open to the public.

About Karen:

Karen Lue is a Chinese American fine art photographer and illustrator. Her images explore aspects of identity in relation to concepts of race, family, loss, and displacement. H er works chronicle the construction of her own identity, beginning with her search for "home" -- as a physical place, a feeling, a group of people, an idea. She lives and works in Pittsburgh, PA.

For more information and to RSVP, visit the Facebook event page.

Tiny Films: Seeing Double
Friday February 21st

​317 S Trenton Ave
6-8PM

Free

​Join Small Mall as we showcase tiny films and video art by Pittsburgh artists making work about duality.

Small Mall Overhaul
Wednesday, Feb. 12th

5300 Butler Street
6-8pm
Free

New year, new Overhaul!

Enjoy new work by new artists in the region.

Light drinks and heavy fun provided.

Our Stories in Other Voices
Thursday, January 9th

​5300 Butler St.
6:30-8:30pm 
$25 (includes workbook)

​Join artist atiya jones as she hosts Our Stories in Other Voices, a workshop designed to explore self-connection and vulnerability, facilitated through self reflective writing and anonymous group sharing. 

For more information and to purchase tickets, click here

Fizzpop (up)
5300 Butler Street

Saturday, Dec. 21st
1-4pm

Small Mall favorite Fizzpop Pins will be popping up at our Butler Street location!

View new work and get some gifts for the holidays.

Light refreshments will be served.

RSVP on facebook

Small Mall Info Session
Thursday Dec. 12th

317 S Trenton Ave
6-8pm
free

Join us for an info session!

Learn more about how to get involved with CDCP

• How to get your work exhibited 

• How to get your work carried at Small Mall, a retail store and concept shop

• Opportunities for artist lectures and more ways to get involved in the arts community!

Emerging artists welcome! 

Small Mall Holiday Pop Up at TRYP Hotel

Friday Nov. 29, 6-9pm
Saturday Nov. 30, 10am-5pm

If you're already feeling stressed about holiday shopping, have no fear! Small Mall will be hosting a holiday market at the TRYP hotel for Black Friday weekend. Visit us on Friday November 29th from 6-9pm or Saturday November 20th from 10am-5pm to shop some beautiful and affordable artwork from some of Small Mall's favorite artists!

Small Mall Holiday Pop Up at TRYP Hotel

Friday Nov. 29, 6-9pm
Saturday Nov. 30, 10am-5pm

If you're already feeling stressed about holiday shopping, have no fear! Small Mall will be hosting a holiday market at the TRYP hotel for Black Friday weekend. Visit us on Friday November 29th from 6-9pm or Saturday November 20th from 10am-5pm to shop some beautiful and affordable artwork from some of Small Mall's favorite artists!