We’re thrilled to be working with the Wilkinsburg CDC for a series of upcoming exhibitions! We’ll be hosting four solo shows featuring artists who have a relationship with Wilkinsburg at the WCDC’s Lohr Gallery. We recently opened our first show featuring artist and owner of Workshop PGH, Kelly Malone. Make sure to check it out while it’s up!
CDCP x WCDC present: Kelley Malone
on display August 28th – October 16th, 2021
The Lohr Galleries
729 Wood St
Gallery Hours: Saturdays, 12-5pm
We’re excited to announce some major changes for our concept store Small Mall. After 3 years under the umbrella of Casey Droege Cultural Productions, Small Mall is moving on up! CDCP has sold Small Mall to new owners Kerri Fetzer-Borelli and Paige Fetzer-Borelli .
After years of pop-ups, Small Mall settled into its home in Upper Lawrenceville in 2018 as a local arts marketplace. We sell affordable works by artists and designers within 100 miles of Pittsburgh. By offering mini-exhibits, “Tiny Talk” artist lectures, and partnerships with various art organizations around the city, we’ve straddled the line of retail and gallery - maintaining an accessible storefront and creating meaningful ways for the public to meet the artists. We also rotate out artists and work every quarter, offering us the chance to do great rehangs in the space.
Casey will be focusing her efforts with CDCP to continue to provide community programming and offer art consulting services. She's decided that Small Mall is ready to exist on its own and has the best chances of growth with new owners. So that brings us to Kerri and Paige, who are the perfect pair to continue building Small Mall. They are dedicated to growing it as an artist and community focused entity. The rest of the Small Mall team will stay on to help make this shift as smooth as possible.
We hope you'll continue to support the team and artists at Small Mall by shopping in person at our Upper Lawrenceville location in Pittsburgh or by visiting the website smallmallpgh.com.
More about CDCP and Kerri and Paige:
Casey Droege Cultural Productions is a certified woman and disability owned enterprise. CDCP is an experiment in sustaining a for-profit, socially minded arts business while building arts economy in a city with a small arts ecosystem. We serve artists and businesses through public facing programming and arts consulting services.
Kerri and Paige Fetzer-Borelli are Upper Lawrenceville residents and the founders of HOT HOT HOT, a mission driven organization focused on empowering community, bringing equity and inclusivity to all spaces, and promoting queer joy through a variety of programs. They look forward to putting their passion into Small Mall to grow visibility, expand platforms, and increase access to revenue for Pittsburgh artists and creatives.
We are thrilled to announce a new initiative: the Visual Arts Coalition for Equity (VACE)
We are eight small visual arts organizations in Pittsburgh that have come together to make our field more equitable, visible, and sustainable. We are committed to collectively sharing resources and ideas, advocating for each other, and fostering new collaborations. While we retain our own missions, we will unify our voices to challenge the systemic inequity that has persevered in the visual arts. We know that we will have a greater impact by combining our resources and energies.
We are grateful to announce that the VACE coalition has been awarded more than $100,000 in grants through the Arts Equity Reimagined Fund. This funding will allow us to further develop our coalition and to create a new program to build equity in the arts, the VACE Fellowship. This Fellowship is a paid arts leadership training program designed to support people who identify as BIPOC, LGBTQIA, and others who have been marginalized by our field. The VACE Fellowship will provide coaching, mentorship, networking opportunities, and hands on professional growth experiences from all of the VACE coalition organizations. A call for applications for the VACE Fellowship will be announced through all the member organizations in the late spring.
ABOUT THE COALITION
VACE coalition is a mixture of nonprofits, collectives, and for-profit visual arts organizations throughout Pittsburgh. We are made up of Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, BOOM Concepts, Brew House Association, Bunker Projects, Casey Droege Cultural Productions, Nafasi on Centre, Silver Eye Center for Photography, and Women of Visions. The organizations of VACE consistently present outstanding, diverse, and thought-provoking visual art in Pittsburgh. Through our programs and exhibitions, the organizations of VACE create opportunities for visual artists of all demographics in our city. VACE represents the future of Pittsburgh’s cultural landscape.
Stay tuned for more news and information about VACE!
Unfortunately, we’ve had some changes in our lease that have put us in the position of closing our Wilkinsburg Space. We're sad to leave the space, but we're looking forward to our next chapter and putting more of our focus into the Lawrenceville location and other programming efforts. Thank you to everyone who supported the Project Space and came to our shows and events.
We'll be hosting a yard sale on March 6th from 12-5pm in the space at 317 S. Trenton Ave.. Furniture, tools, and lots of random bits will be available (for cheap!), and Small Mall Outpost will be open for one more day of operations. We hope to see you there to say goodbye!
This past Tuesday, December 1st, was Giving Tuesday and CDCP received donations from many generous donors. We’re incredibly grateful for these contributions. Like many small businesses and organizations, CDCP was severely impacted by COVID-19. Donating to CDCP ensures our continued dedication to bringing you quality arts programming, highlighting and supporting local artists, boosting the arts economy in Pittsburgh, and of course paying our staff.
We’d like to take a moment to acknowledge and thank those who donated to us.
Mark Newport
Timothy Gyves
Lenka Clayton
Carol Skinger
Linda Wallen
Anita Shahady
Paul Cicozi
Plus our many anonymous donors
We’re incredibly grateful for all of the support we’ve received since the beginning of the pandemic. Whether it was from attending one of our virtual events or simply sharing one of our posts on social media, we understand and see how every little bits counts towards helping us get through this together.
If you’d like to make a donation to CDCP, please click here to be taken to our donation portal. To make a tax-deductible contribution, visit our fiscal sponsor’s website.
Starting today (11/27) Small Mall is going to be slinging local art downtown for the holidays! We'll be popping up on 922 Penn Ave to sell the best local art in the heart of Pittsburgh's Downtown district. Check out the new space we'll have until Christmas Eve and shop all of the new work we have in store for you!
Small Mall Holiday Pop-Up
Nov. 27 - Dec. 24, 2020
922 Penn Ave
PGH, PA 15222
Hours:
Wed - Sun, 12 - 6 pm