I am going to make some beads to weave into a tapestry and still watching process videos and learning…
The Antenna Grant for Women in the Arts
The Antenna Grant for Women in the Arts offers financial support and mentorship for young women of color pursuing an education, training, and/or career in the visual arts (sculpture, 2-dimensional work, drawing, painting, textiles, film, installations, murals, etc). Awards are based on artistic merit, evidence of commitment to a career in the arts, and financial need.
Eligibility
This grant is for female-identifying visual artists between the ages of 16-23. Priority will be given to women of color and those with financial need (documentation may be required).
Applicants must have a home address in Jersey City, or be pursuing their education in Jersey City.
Grantees will be required to submit reports of their progress at the end of the scholarship period.
Use of Grant
A scholarship of up to $1,500, which can be put towards artistic training and growth, including but not limited to: educational programs, college, materials, self-education, studio space, lessons, projects, etc.
The scholarship period runs for 6 months (starting in January 2023). During that time grantees will be provided mentorship opportunities with professional women artists, including a welcome luncheon, opportunities to visit professional artist studios, virtual consulting, and collaboration on next steps at the end of the scholarship period.
Grant Panelists
The Antenna Grant review panel will include local artists, ME, Theda Sandiford, Danielle Scott, and Shamona Stokes.
Deadline to apply is November 13, 2022.
APPLY HERE
Inspired By… Machine Dazzle
One of the best things about Surface Design is their TEXTILE TALK series.
Textile Talks features weekly presentations and panel discussions from the International Quilt Museum, Quilt Alliance, San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, Studio Art Quilt Associates, and Surface Design Association.
This episode highlights the themes, objects, and extravagant style of the exhibition Queer Maximalism x Machine Dazzle currently on view at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City.
The exhibition is a solo presentation of the genre-defying artist Matthew Flower, better known as Machine Dazzle. A provocateur commanding an expanded repertoire of costume design, stagecraft, performance, and music, he is also a virtuoso practitioner of the visual language of queer maximalism.
Elissa Auther, Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs and the William and Mildred Lasdon Chief Curator at the Museum of Arts and Design, examine the ways in which Machine Dazzle counters the prejudices of high culture and transforms bodies through sculptural materials and ornamentation. SDA board member, Michael Sylvan Robinson moderates.
Fabulous Surfaces: Queer Maximalism x Machine Dazzle (MAD Museum and SDA)
Flux Treasure Island
Date: October 21-23, Friday & Weekends 10:00 am – 5 pm
Location: Flux Factory on Governors Island, Colonels Row 404A
Flux Treasure Island is an island-wide scavenger hunt, taking place over Friday October 21 through Sunday October 23. Artworks will be hidden all across Governors Island in secret unexpected locations.
Strange nooks, wooded groves, long-disused forts: anywhere.
Cryptic clues on a treasure map will guide visitors to their destinations. Works will include site-specific sculpture, performance, video, AR, and more. They might respond to the local area and its history, or maybe they will play with viewer’s perceptions. Some pieces will only be visible at certain times, so everyone’s experience will be different.
Come to Flux HQ at 404a Colonels Row and pick up a treasure map. From there, the island is yours to explore. Come find my work on the map
Curated by Georgia Muenster
RSVP on Facebook for this event
NJAA Virtual Catalogue
I wanted to share with you the digital exhibition catalogue for the 2022 New Jersey Arts Annual: Reemergence.
And let you know that i’ll be giving a Artist talk, March 22, 2023 in Trenton at the NJ State Museum about my work Lady Whistledown Emotional Baggage Cart.
Joyful Resistance Recap
What a thrill ride this past month has been.
Thank you to Ivy Brown and all the folks that attended my show, Joyful Resistance at Ivy Brown Gallery in the Meatpacking District in New York City.
JCAST 2023 Recap
The best part of JCAST is seeing old friends and making new ones.
Thank you to Bridge Art Gallery, Nimbus, SurfaceDesign, Art House Productions, NJ.com, Jersey Journal and the Jersey City Department of Cultural Affairs for your tireless support of the arts and my art practice in particular.
Artist Talk Today: 1:00pm on Govs Island
REBEL
If you know me, you know I’m a Rebel on a mission. So inclusion in the REBEL show at Untitled Gallery in NYC is a natural fit.
To view the Google Photo Album of Untitled Magazine. Click here.
View photos from the NYC Launch event below…
Free Your Mind: Artist Talk 10/15/22
Please join me for my artist talk this Saturday, October 15 from 1:00-2:00pm on Governors Island at to learn more about my social justice public art project Free Your Mind.
Location: Art Crawl Harlem House; 406b Colonels Row, Governors Island, NYC
Free Your Mind is a public textile art project aiming to collect, exhibit, embed and release personal narratives about Microaggressions in a multi-sensory installation facilitated by artist Theda Sandiford.
Participants are invited to write a story about a microaggression they have experienced onto a ribbon and tie this ribbon onto a net to release this story from their personal narrative. This is a story ribbon.
The installation evolves with each new story ribbon, keeping a public record of disempowering interactions, that can be exposed and talked about. Participants have the feeling of being seen and acknowledged while interacting with the work.
In 2021 Free Your Mind toured, collecting story ribbons in Bayonne NJ, Jersey City NJ, Sunsets @ The Standard, Miami Art Week. The installation is currently at Governors Island May through October 2022 and made stops in Indianapolis for Butter Fair. Free Your Mind is scheduled to travel to Brooklyn, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Newark and Michigan next year in 2023.
