CCAC x CDCP Call for Art Virtual info Session

When: July 20th at 6:00pm
Where: Zoom (sign up here)

Do you have questions about our current open call or want to know more? Join us on July 20th at 6:00pm for a free virtual info session to get your answers.

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

For any questions about registering for this event, please contact Eriko at eriko@caseydroege.com. For all other questions regarding the event, please contact Andrea at andreampetrillo@gmail.com.

CCAC x CDCP Call for Art Virtual Info Session
July 20th

6:00pm

Free (RSVP here)

PGH Photo Fair Speaker Series with Isolde Brielmaier
Curator and Cultural Strategist
Wednesday, September 15th at 6pm

Join us on September 15th at 6pm for a lecture where Isolde Brielmaier will discuss her new book, I Am Sparkling: N. V. Parekh and His Portrait Studio Clients—Mombasa, Kenya 1940 to 1980. This talk begins in our present moment of image-making, visual culture and story telling and then extends to a look back upon a rarely accessed photographic archive. It is complemented by extensive interviews with Parekh’s diverse clientele, with a particular focus on women as clients of studio photographers.

To learn more about this event and to register, click here.

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. 

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.

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: 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.

https://socialliving.us/

https://www.instagram.com/social.living/

https://www.facebook.com/SocialLivingUS/

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

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.

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.