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.

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

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.

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

APPLICATIONS DUE JUNE 23rd, 2023

CDCP is pleased to host a call for works in collaboration with the Wilkinsburg Community Development Corporation (WCDC) and Naomi Chambers of FlowerHouse.

We’re seeking Wilkinsburg artists to submit work for consideration. We will be curating four solo exhibitions at the Wilkinsburg Community Development Corporation’s (WCDC) Lohr Gallery and flex space (725 Wood St., Wilkinsburg, PA 15221) that highlight the arts within the community.

Applicants must either be residents of Wilkinsburg, have a studio in Wilkinsburg, or have a strong relationship to the community.  

• Only 2D work will be accepted. Work must be ready to attach via a hook with wire or similar and cannot exceed roughly five pounds in weight per piece.

• Each artist will receive a $1,000 stipend in recognition of their work. This is in collaboration with the Visual Arts Coalition for Equity’s (VACE) standard wage for a solo exhibition. 

• Each exhibition will run for approximately 8 weeks open on Saturdays from 12–5pm. Exhibition slots will be scheduled between August 2023 and June 2024.

• Artists will be asked to do a video interview and participate in a Saturday public program/opening co-organized by Naomi Chambers of FlowerHouse.

• Artists will receive professional documentation of the show organized by CDCP.

• CDCP will work with artists to sell available works and artists will receive 80% of all sales in one payment at the end of the exhibition.

• One of these exhibitions will align with Little Amal, a global art event coming to Pittsburgh. For this exhibition, we are especially interested in work that connects with the refugee experience, a newfound sense of home, or constellations.

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

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 Meet and Greet with Residents

Join us on Wednesday, January 11, 2023 at the Pedantic Arts Residency building on 5228 Penn Ave to welcome and meet our second 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 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, please click the button below.

NOVEMBER 23 |6PM
Connect with a Conservator Rikke Foulke

Jump into an episode of The Repair Shop as we visit with art conservator Rikke Foulke. She’ll share her stories of restoring objects, paintings, and works of art on paper for museums and collectors while giving us a peek inside her workspace at 7800 Susquehanna.

We’re thrilled to join the Wilkinsburg CDC for an artist talk featuring exhibiting artist, Centa Schumacher! Join CDCP and WCDC on November 11th at 6:00pm to hear Centa 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 register here.

SEPTEMBER 23 | 6PM
BEHIND THE EXHIBIT at Carnegie Museum of Art

Spend some time with Dana Bishop-Root and. CMoA staff to get the inside story of creating an exhibit at the museum. Stay after for a glass of wine in the cafe or a special tour with a docent.

Virtual artist talk with Kelly Malone
co-hosted by CDCP and Wilkinsburg CDC

When: September 1st at 6:00pm
Where: Zoom (sign up here!)

We’re thrilled to join the Wilkinsburg CDC for an artist talk featuring exhibiting artist, Kelly Malone! Join CDCP and WCDC on September 1st at 6:00pm to hear Kelly speak about her work in the exhibition and her relationship to Wilkinsburg.

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

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

CDCP X WCDC present:
Works by Kelly Malone

on display August 28th – October 15th, 2021

In-person Gallery Hours: 

Saturdays 12:00pm to 5:00pm

at the Lohr Gallery

725 Wood Street, Wilkinsburg PA 15221

In-Person Workshop

September 25th, Time TBA

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. 

JULY 20 | 6PM
COLLECTORS SHOW AND TELL

Join us for an evening of fast-paced presentations from three art collectors at the Salon. They’ll showcase a few of their favorite pieces (from books to prints, or unique paintings and sculptures), how they buy it, ways to stay on budget, and all the inside dirt on getting a great deal while supporting artists! 

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.

May 18 | 6PM
STUDIO VISITS

Visit the artist studios at the Brewhouse Association on the Southside. We’ll meet with artists Eriko Hattori (Distillery program artist)  and Maia Leppo (Cluster artist) to hear more about their practices and studios, housed within the former Duquesne Brewing Company home built circa 1899.

Eriko Hattori (they/them) is an artist with a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Since graduating, Hattori has devoted their time to both art and activism through her studio practice and organizing for groups that focus on uplifting the marginalized and incarcerated. Their work deals with the relationship between their heritage and queer identity, and has been exhibited across the country.

Maia Leppo (she/her) graduated from Tufts University in 2008 with a degree in Biology and Community Health. She received training in jewelry and metals from various craft schools, including Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Pocosin Arts, Penland School of Crafts and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and her Masters of Fine Art from SUNY New Paltz. She has participated in artist residencies at Arrowmont and Fallingwater and has taught around the country including Penland, Arrowmont, Pocosin, and Touchstone. She currently works out of her studio in the Brewhouse Association on the south side of Pittsburgh.

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.