‘Black Ballerinas’ by Theda Sandiford available through Ivy Brown Gallery.
Black Ballerinas
February Exhibitions/Up Next
Visions & Voices
I have been invited to show three works in The Biggs Museum of American Art’s juried exhibition, Visions & Voices highlighting the work of twenty regional African American artists of the Mid-Atlantic region.
Location: The Biggs Museum of American Art, 406 Federal St Dover DE 19901
Opening Reception: Friday, February 4, 5 – 8 PM
Pre-registration is free and strongly encouraged. Get your tickets HERE
Exhibition Dates: February 4, 2022 – May 21, 2022
Free Your Mind: Social Justice Public Art Installation
Free Your Mind is a collection of personal narratives. Participants are invited to share an personal experience with implicit bias to release this story from their personal narrative. Later, artist Theda Sandiford will weave these stories in the installations as computer generated voice recordings. Motion sensors trigger these recording in the installation of the tapestry.
Share your Story here
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1DJnPSUHid5xcthrbRXDLcP50tLUa0pf8l_cgSaXL5qw/edit
JC Friday Art Supply Swap
Do you have left over materials from an art project? Have WAY too much Cadmium White when you need Pastels? Do you have skeins of yarn you are not using? Or supplies from an art practice you no longer use?
Come to Sky Garden Gallery’s Art Supply Swap with your items and trade, them for something else.
March 4, 2022, 5pm – 8pm
Location: 150 Bay Street, Jersey City
Summit Public Art: The Baggage We Carry
Public Art Installation On View: May 2021 – May 2022
Location: Summit Village Green, 356 Broad Street Summit, NJ
Three Emotional Baggage Carts are on display for the next year. When the sun sets, the carts solarl panels light up and take on a new form, glowing from within.
Visions & Voices – Opening Reception
Friday, February 4, 5 – 8 PM
Location: The Biggs Museum of American Art, 406 Federal St Dover DE 19901
This opening is a complimentary community event in conjunction with Dover’s Citywide Black History Month Celebration. Masks are required to be worn inside the museum; light refreshments will be served.
Pre-registration is free and strongly encouraged. Get your tickets HERE
Public Voice Award
One piece from Visions & Voices will be added to the Biggs’ permanent collection. You get to help us select the final work, I hope you pick mine. Members of the community will choose the artwork that the Biggs will purchase through a vote for the Public Voice Award. Visitors can vote in person through April 29.
Visions & Voices Exhibition Dates: February 4, 2022 – May 21, 2022
JC Friday Art Supply Swap is Coming…
Do you have leftover materials from an art project? Have WAY too much Cadmium White when you need Pastels? Do you have skeins of yarn you are not using? Or supplies from an art practice you no longer use?
We’re on the lookout for art supplies that can be used by someone else. Marie Condo your art supplies and make room for more joy in your life.
Photo by Khaled Elbanna 
Here is how it’s going down:
Start rummaging in your closet and pulling out supplies you want to get rid of.
Come to Sky Garden Gallery’s Art Supply Swap
March 4, 2022, 5pm – 8pm
150 Bay Street, Jersey City, NJ PH9, 10th floor
with your items and trade, them for something else.
DM your Questions to @SkyGardenGallery or @MissTheda on Instagram
Feel free to contact me about specific items I am currently sourcing such as colored T shirts, sheets, fabric, rope, beads….
Swapping starts at 5:00pm. See you then!
Bottlecap Pearls
In 2020 my artist residency with NOW Friends in Nairobi Kenya was cancelled due to Covid.
I had spent 6 months preparing for this residency, learning Swahili, researching local artists, textiles, and beading techniques.
When I learned that travel would not be possible, I decided to use the time I would have been in Kenya to clean, drill and string thousands of bottle caps into larger-than-life strings of pearls and drape these necklaces on vintage ladders.
Inspired By…
It is a wintery gray outside. So naturally, the colors of these recovered fibers is giving me of warm sunsets at the beach vibes. I can’t wait until I return to St. Croix USVI.
Call For Materials
If you purging and are willing to part with any rope, fishing net, yarn and old old sheets, jeans, ties and colored t-shirts please let know.
I am currently sourcing for old clothes to be transformed into yarn for use in my upcoming projects.
Sunset Colors 
GI Josephine
Im feeling inspired to make dresses for these vintage GI Joes and pose them for photographs with mini shopping carts as a collaborative project with Donna Bassin.
What do you think?
My 2022 Calendar .. so far
If you are a planner like me, here are some soft art dates to hold. Looking forward to seeing and art outing with you this coming year.
Signature Show
Exhibition Dates: January 16 2022 – February 27 2022, at Art 150 located 150 Bay Street, Jersey City. Enter at Provost and 1st Street.
The opening reception is Sunday January 16, opening reception from 2:00pm – 4:00pm.
Visions & Voices
Exhibition Dates: February 4, 2022 – May 21, 2022 at The Biggs Museum of American Art, 406 Federal St Dover DE 19901
JC Friday
Date: Friday Mar 4, 2022 at Sky Garden Gallery, Jersey City
Expo Chicago
The International Exposition Of Contemporary & Modern Art. Exhibition Dates: April 7- April 10, 2022 at the Navy Pier Chicago.
Spring Art Supply Swap
Date: Saturday April 9, 2022 from 12:00-3:00pm at Sky Garden Gallery, Jersey City.
Joyful Resistance Solo Show at The Contemporary Art Center
Exhibition Dates: April 22 – June 4th, 2022 at The Center for Contemporary Art , 2020 Burnt Mills Road, Bedminster, NJ
International Sculpture Day
Date: April 30, 2022 from 12:00-3:00pm at Sky Garden Gallery, Jersey City.
World Collage Day
Date: May 14, 2022, from 12:00-3:00pm at Sky Garden Gallery, Jersey City
JC Friday
Date: Friday June 3, 2022 at Sky Garden Gallery, Jersey City
JC Friday
Date: Friday September 9, 2022 at Sky Garden Gallery, Jersey City
Solo Show Ivy Brown Gallery
Exhibition Dates September 8 – September 29 Location: 675 Hudson St, New York, NY
JCAST: Jersey City Art & Studio Tour
Dates September 29- October 2, 2022 at Sky Garden Gallery, Jersey City
Holiday Card Making
Sunday November 13, 2022, from 12:00-3:00pm at Sky Garden Gallery, Jersey City
JC Friday
Date: Friday December 2, 2022 at Sky Garden Gallery, Jersey City
Visions & Voices
I have been invited to show three works in The Biggs Museum of American Art’s juried exhibition highlighting the work of regional African American artists of the Mid-Atlantic region.
Visions & Voices
Exhibition Dates: February 4, 2022 – May 21, 2022
Location: The Biggs Museum of American Art, 406 Federal St Dover DE 19901
Porcupine Zip Tie
Boa Quill 
Caribbean Friendship Bracelet