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 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.

Tiny Talk: Living Room Editions feat. Candace Opper
Thursday Feb. 25th, 6pm

​Tiny Talk: Living Room Editions are back, and we're thrilled to have Candace Opper as our first guest for the season! We'll be hearing from Candace as she talks about her latest book, "Certain and Impossible Events," her work as a writer and an artist.

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

Tiny Talk with Sarah Jacobs

Friday, 8/21, 8pm

​$5-20 Suggested Donation

Our Tiny Talk series continues! Next up is Sarah Jacobs.

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 Sarah:

Sarah Jacobs is a contemporary artist. Her work has been exhibited in the US and in Europe and she has taken part in artist residencies in Grimma, Germany, Cali, Colombia, and Taos, New Mexico. She has won multiple grants, including the Arts Council England Grant, and her work can be found in public and private collections in the US, UK, and Hong Kong. She has had solo and two person exhibitions in New York City, London, Wrocław, Poland and Bristol, England, among other cities. A large scale reproduction of one of her paintings was displayed at the Pittsburgh International Airport from 2018 - 2019. 

​Born in West Virginia in 1984, Jacobs was raised in Littlestown, Pennsylvania. She was educated in Art History at Gettysburg College and received her MFA from the Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore in 2010. There she studied under Joyce Kozloff and Timothy App. Jacobs moved back to the USA in 2014 after 3 years living in London and Bristol, UK where she became a naturalized British citizen. From 2014 – 2016 she taught art at the University of Maryland and Gettysburg College. She now teaches at Carlow University in Pittsburgh and spends her time there and in New York.

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.

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.

Jamie Earnest
Thursday, April 23rd, 7pm

 Join Small Mall artist Jamie Earnest for a tiny talk about her work! Continuing from her previous Tiny Talk, Jamie will discuss her paintings, the evolution of her artistic practice, her residency at the Brew House Association, and more.

​Admission to this virtual event will be pay-what-you-can between $5-20. Filling out the form is mandatory as we need your email to send the Zoom link. Please use the form here to sign up and use the product button for the event to make your payment.