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.

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: 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 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.

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.

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.

Sculpture Support System
Wednesday, May 6th, 7pm

​Join us for a Tiny Talk with Sharon Massey and Sean Derry, the creators of Sculpture Support System! Sculpture Support System launched a new program called the Quarantine Companion, which is a response to social distancing and isolation related to COVID-19. Sharon and Sean will be talking about this program, as well as their work and Sculpture Support System as a whole.

​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.

Tereneh Idia of Idia'Dega
Saturday, April 25th, 2pm

​Join artist and fashion designer Tereneh Idia, founder and director of Idia'Dega, for a Tiny Talk and mask making workshop. In the spirit of upcycling and sustainability, Tereneh will be teaching you how to make your own face mask using clothes or fabric you have around your home.

This event is free. Signing up is mandatory as we need your email to send the Zoom link. Please use the form here to sign up.

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.

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.

On View with John Peña
Thursday Oct 10th

​
5300 Butler St.
6-8PM 
free

​Join us for an opening reception with our Window Residency artist John Peña’s. View the work exhibited through 10/21. 

During the reception, John will give a brief chat on his process for making the work displayed in our windows.  

Light refreshments will be served. Admission is free and open to the public.  

On View with John Peña
Thursday Oct 10th

​5300 Butler St.
6-8PM 
free

​
Join us for an opening reception with our Window Residency artist John Peña’s. View the work exhibited through 10/21. 

During the reception, John will give a brief chat on his process for making the work displayed in our windows.  

Light refreshments will be served. Admission is free and open to the public.  

Tiny Talk with Selena Hurst
Thursday Sept 26th

5300 Butler Street
6-8pm
Free

Join us as our window residency artist Selena Hurst gives a Tiny Talk about their work.

View Selena's window residency installation up now through 9/29.

6-8pm

Free

Tiny Talk with Stephen Grebinski
Thursday May 23rd

5300 Butler Street
6-8pm

We’ve got another Tiny Talk coming up! Join us as we host a Micro Exhibition of Stephen Grebinski’s work for a one night only show. The show will be accompanied by an artist talk.  

Lawrenceville Distilling will serve special artist inspired drinks at their pop up.  

Additional work by Stephen will be available for purchase during the event.

Donations will be going towards Artists Image Resource.

This event is free. Please RSVP here.

Tiny Talk with Jamie Earnest
Friday April 19th

5300 Butler Street
6-8pm

Small Mall is back once more with the Tiny Talk series! Join us as host a Micro Exhibition of work by Jamie Earnest for a one night only show. The show will be accompanied by an artist talk.  

Lawrenceville Distilling will serve special artist inspired drinks at their pop up.  

Additional work by Jamie will be available for purchase during the event. Donations will be going towards SisterFriend. 

This event is free. Please RSVP here.