CDCP x WCDC Present: Jasmine Green

Artist Reception: Saturday, December 9th, 12:00pm-3:00pm

On view: December 9th, 2023 - February 24th, 2024
Gallery hours: Saturdays 12-5pm

Black women exist within an unrelenting ecosystem built to convince us that we are insufficient. To persevere, counternarratives that remind us of our humanity are crucial. As a painter and poet, my work exists as a safe harbor for Black women and girls, centering themes such as mental health, systemic oppression, joy, liberatory visions, and power.

I practice mainly in acrylic media but also engage in digital painting, tufting, and laser cutting. What excites me most is ideating new ways to showcase aspects of Black feminine identity outside of the limiting bounds and tropes we often see ourselves defined within; I can depict nudity in ways that are not inherently sexual, beauty in ways not restricted by Eurocentric standards and a deep and emotional personhood that can not be bypassed or erased.

I am most influenced in practice and philosophy by the works of Claudia Rankine, Audre Lorde, Kehinde Wiley, Romare Bearden, Octavia Butler, and Kerry James Marshall. The questions I want to be answered in my work are: what is challenged when Black women are centered unapologetically; and what effect do the societies we live in have on Black women’s capacity for joy, love, peace, and processing trauma?

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

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 8 through July 6, 2024. The winter session will run January 11 through February 8, 2025.

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.

Keystone Progress Education Fund and Casey Droege Cultural Productions are thrilled to present our exhibit The Art of Democracy. This exhibit features work that creates a dialogue around democracy as a whole and the current political climate, especially in a year when we have local/municipal elections. Exploring how democracy impacts censorship, reproductive justice and abortion access, workers' rights, and economic justice, this show demonstrates what a healthy democracy should look like.

WHEN:
September 29
Opening Reception from 6-9pm at Brew House Arts
711 S 21st, St #210
Pittsburgh, PA 15203

September 30 - October 31
Work on display at Repair the World
6140 Station St
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

Juried by Fran Flaherty
Featuring work by:
Andrew Ellis Johnson
Frank Harris
Vaishali Paliwal
Max Almeida
Louise Silk
Penny Mateer
Tony Del Sardo
Helena Valentine
Jean Davis
Jacquet Kehm
Lindsey Peck Scherloum
William Bill Kawah
Melanie Linn Gutowski

CDCP x WCDC Present: Kelly Lanzendorfer

Artist Reception: Saturday, September 16, 12:00-3:00PM

On view: September 16th - November 18th, 2023
Gallery hours: Saturdays 12-5pm

CDCP & WCDC's exhibition of Kelly Lanzendorfer's work is presented in conjunction with CDCP & Hatch Arts Collective's event for Little Amal happening on September 21, 2023. Both center themes of home and finding a sense of belonging through the act of exploring our surroundings and cherishing the small delights discovered within our daily experiences.

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

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.

Pedantic Meet and Greet with

June 2023 Cohort

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.

Pedantic Arts Residency (Pedantic) is a month-long cross-disciplinary co-hosted by Headwater Media and CDCP. We have invited three residents whose practices span visual art, curating, and writing to explore the city of Pittsburgh and its creative communities.

This is a free event, and RSVP is requested to attend. To RSVP, 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

CDCP x WCDC Present: BAHIRAH

Opening Reception: Saturday, Feb 25th, 12:00PM

On view: Feb. 4th - April 1st, 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

We’re thrilled to join the Wilkinsburg CDC for an artist talk featuring exhibiting artist, Rell Rushin! Join CDCP and WCDC on May 4th at 6:00pm to hear Rell speak about her solo show at the WCDC’s Lohr Gallery.

This is a free virtual event. Registration is required to receive the Zoom link. To register, please fill out the form below.

For any questions about registering for this event, please contact Dave at davidfzak (at) gmail.com.

When: May 4th, 6-7pm

Where: Zoom (sign up here)

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. 

SPEAKER SERIES
David Kronn, Collector; Tristan Lund, Collecting Advisor
Wednesday, June 30th, 6pm
FREE with RSVP

Join us Wednesday, June 30th at 6pm for our second virtual Speaker Series event. We will be taking a deep dive into the world of contemporary photography collecting with David Kronn, a collector, and Tristan Lund, a collecting advisor. See how a seasoned collector decides on the pieces they choose to purchase.

This event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP to receive Zoom link when registration opens.

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 Session with Darrin Milliner
Oct. 28, 8pm

Our resident artist Darrin Milliner is joining Small Mall for a Tiny Talk! Our Living Room Session series brings our Tiny Talk events to the comfort of your home. 

Tiny Talk: Living Room Sessions operate on a pay-what-you-can model between $5-20. All profits from this series will go to paying our guest artist and Small Mall staff.

​To sign up for our Tiny Talk with Darrin, purchase a ticket below!

​Ticket purchases are required to receive the RSVP link to the event via email. Participants will receive the Zoom link to the event one hour prior to the start of the event. To purchase a ticket, click here

More on Darrin:

Darrin Milliner, b. 1992, Aliquippa, Pennsylvania currently lives and works in Pittsburgh. His work focuses on finding the inspirational, educational, and empowering aspects of everyday life. Taking every opportunity to absorb various subjects that spark emotion and action, then bringing them to the forefront of his work, all in an attempt to highlight the importance of the separate worlds that surround each of us on a daily basis.

At his core, he is really just an artist or someone who is meant to create, whatever that may be. From a young age, he has always been creating and always exploring how to produce things that aren't already in existence. He doesn't think he'll ever stop doing that and he’s not sure if he ever can.

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Check out Darrin's solo show at the CDCP Project Space!

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.

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.

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.

Small Mall x Photo Fair present: 
Tiny Talk with sarah huny young

Friday, July 10th, 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.

First up is sarah huny young who will be in conversation with us about her work, background, and exciting recent projects!

The event is free and guests must sign up in order to receive the Zoom link. The talk begins at 8pm EST. Visit our webpage to sign up.
 
Small Mall x PGH Photo Fair Tiny Talks are made possible by the William T. Hillman Foundation.