Pedantic Apartment – 5228 Penn Avenue
6:30-8pm
Free, Open to the public
Join us on Friday, February 7, 2025 at the Pedantic Apartments on 5228 Penn Ave for a closing Open House for the Pedantic Winter 2025 Cohort. We’ll have a farewell toast for this group of creatives who spent January with us and the Pittsburgh arts community. You’ll also get a chance to chat with the residents and hear about their time in the city.
This is a free event and is open to the public. Light food and drinks will be available. We’ll see you there!
Pedantic Winter 2025 Cohort Farewell Open House
Friday, February 7, 2025
6:30pm
Free
Pedantic Apartment
5228 Penn Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15224
Sam Grabowska (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Denver, Colorado, USA. Grabowska holds a PhD in architecture with a cognate in cultural anthropology from the University of Michigan, an MH in interdisciplinary humanities from the University of Colorado Denver, and both a BFA in film and a BA in architecture from the University of Colorado Boulder. They have exhibited their work in museums and galleries across Colorado as well as Minneapolis and in Sweden. Grabowska is the founder of Manifolding Labs, a research and consulting firm focusing on trauma-responsive spatial design.
Maida Gruden (she/her) is a Curator at the Fund of research and preservation at the Museum of Yugoslavia in Belgrade, Serbia. She was a Head of the Visual Arts Department at the Students’ City Cultural Center, Belgrade. She acquired an MFA in Art History at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Belgrade University. Gruden was the main coordinator of the European international project “They: Live, student lives revealed through context-based art practices”. She was also involved as a curator in the European project “Remix Comix – Comics for Heritage”, the main objective of which was transnational creation of new, innovative contemporary comics that challenge dominant models of heritage presentation. She was an ArtsLink Fellow for visual and media arts of the CEC ArtsLink organization, and participated in a Residency program for Curators at Combine Studios and Arizona State University Museum in Tempe, Phoenix, Arizona (USA). In the course of her work, Gruden organized a number of workshops, curated exhibitions and projects focused on various links between visual arts and literature, image and text, with the aim of involving non-artistic audiences to increase their cultural access and participation.
Kari Pilgrim (she/her) lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she’s an associate professor of creative writing and literature at SUNY Empire State University. She is working on her first novel, and has stories published in The Literary Review, Del Sol Review, and Brooklyn Review. Her research interests are in the intersections of environmentalism, feminism, and humanities. Her critical work has been published in journals including Society & Animals, Ethics and the Environment, and Environmental Humanities, and a co-edited collection, The Ecopolitics of Consumption. She received awards including the Graywolf Prize for an emerging writer, and residency fellowships with Monson Arts, Summer Literary Seminars, Byrdcliffe, Wildacres, Mineral School, Pedantic Artist Residency, and In Cahoots. Her other interests include practicing permaculture and forest gardening on an off-grid homestead she owned for seven years in upstate New York.