The Pedantic Arts Residency (Pedantic) is seeking applicants for creatives and researchers to participate in the Summer 2025 and Winter 2026 terms. Open to non-Pittsburgh residents, Pedantic is a program that provides free housing and an immersion into the Pittsburgh arts community while fostering and strenghtening creative discussion and thought. Formulated to host a visual artist, curator, and writer, Pedantic aims to encourage dialogue and cross-disciplinary exchange while establishing connections between non-Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh-based cultural producers and artists. Pedantic is also seeking applicants for The Grant, a separate program from the arts residency that is independently-led and open to those aiming to do Pittsburgh-based research.
The open call is now live and the deadline is Sunday, October 27 at 11:59PM EST. To learn more and apply, click the button below.
Video courtesy of WQED Pittsburgh
Pedantic Arts Residency featured on WQED
Pedantic Arts Residency was recently featured on Pittsburgh’s local PBS Channel, WQED. As co-directors of this residency program, we’re thrilled to have Pedantic be spotlighted as a “unique and encouraging space for exploration and creativity.”
Make sure to join us on Friday, February 2 from 6-8pm to say goodbye to the Winter 2024 Cohort of the Pedantic Arts Residency. Click the button below to learn more.
Get to know the fourth Pedantic Cohort on Wednesday, January 10
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.
Image of Visual Art Resident Laura（嘟嘟), courtesy of the artist
Headshot of Curatorial Resident Ulya Soley, courtesy of the artist
Headshot of Writing Resident Alysia Nicole Harris, taken by Melly Wirtes
This winter’s three residents include Laura（嘟嘟）(they/them), an Irvine, CA and New York, NY-based multidisciplinary artist and queer feminist and co-founder of Chinese Artists and Organizers whose art and community organizing reimagine the body, memory, and kinship particularly as it connects with food; Ulya Soley (she/her), a curator based in Istanbul, Turkey and working at Pera Museum whose recent projects explore future scenarios through a queer, feminist lens and delve into the history of queer nightlife and rave culture; and Alysia Nicole Harris (she/her), a performance poet and arts writer based in Corsicana, TX who is interested in the relationship between figuration and abstraction, painting and textiles, and explores themes of spirituality, physicality, beauty and pain.
This is a free event, and RSVP is requested to attend. To RSVP, please fill out the form here.
What: Pedantic Meet and Greet
When: Wednesday, January 10, 6:00-7:30pm
Where: KST Alloy Studios, 5530 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15206
Pedantic Arts Residency's New Website
Pedantic Arts Residency just got a virtual upgrade with a new website.
Designed by Pittsburgh-based graphic design firm Bear Left Bear, the website is a one-stop-shop for all information having to do with the residency program. Visitors can find information about Pedantic and its history, get to know about past and present residents, and learn about upcoming events. Prospective applicants can also apply for future iterations of the residency through the website, and locals can get in touch with Pedantic staff about getting involved.
Check out the new website by clicking the button below.
Pedantic Open Call and Info Session
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.
Get to know the third Pedantic Cohort on Wednesday, June 14
The third Pedantic cohort landed in Pittsburgh last week. We’re thrilled to host them for the next month and are looking forward to seeing the connections they create with one another as well as with the city. 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.
Headshot of Akea Brionne, courtesy of the artist
Headshot of Chenoa Baker, photo by Syracuse in Focus / The Daily Burst
Illustrated headshot of Chad Bilyeu, illustration by Dany Modesto Rodriguez
This summer’s three residents include Akea Brionne, a Creole lens-based artist and researcher based in Detroit, MI, whose work is rooted in an interdisciplinary exploration of the Black experience in America, with emphasis on the relationship between Black women and social geography; Chenoa Baker, a curator based in West Roxbury, MA whose work is based in anti-colonial, equitable, and collectivist work; and Chad Bilyeu, a Black American writer, historian, and photographer based in Leiden, the Netherlands, whose practice involves the creation of what is known in the comic industry as “full scripts”–scripts meant to provide an artist with dialogue, scenario, and expositional instructions.
This is a free event, and RSVP is requested to attend. To RSVP, please fill out the form here.
What: Pedantic Meet and Greet
When: Wednesday, June 14, 6:00-7:30pm
Where: KST Alloy Studios, 5530 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15206