Summer 2026 Cohort Meet and Greet

Join us on Tuesday, June 9, 2026 to welcome our ninth 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.We’re looking forward to welcoming jinseok choi (Visual Artist), Joyce Chung (Curator), and Andrew Saito (Writer).This is a free event, and RSVP is requested to attend. To RSVP, please fill out the brief form below. Registration will also be available at the door. Free drinks and food will be provided at the event.jinseok choi (he/him) is an interdisciplinary artist, fabricator, and community organizer exploring labor, materiality, and collectivity through sculpture, furniture, installations, and community-based projects. His work examines how objects and spaces bear traces of human interaction, serving as both witnesses to and participants in social and political narratives. Deeply engaged in local art communities as an organizer, he co-founded Space 1 (Seoul, 2012) and MOTOR (Los Angeles, 2021- present), artist-run initiatives that support voices outside the mainstream. The projects he has been involved in range from exhibitions in unconventional spaces to practical workshops for community members to outdoor events in public spaces.Joyce Chung (she/her) is the Curator at Asian Arts Initiative in Philadelphia, where she leads the organization’s exhibition and performance programs. Her interdisciplinary approach examines identity, memory, and marginalization, with particular attention to how capitalism and power structures shape lived experiences. She is especially drawn to performance and time-based media for their ability to position the body as a site of resistance, reconciliation, and embodied memory. Chu