After months of planning, JCAST feels like it came and went with a blur. Thank you to everyone who stop in my studio to visit and say hello.
Hope you see you again at 14C…
14C Juried Show Mood Board
Garden Renaissance Opens Tonight
Tonight the Bridge Art Gallery will premiere “Garden Renaissance” Art Exhibition at Newark Arts Festival 6:00pm-8:00pm
LOCATION: Cement Gallery; 6 Crawford St.Newark NJ, formerly City Without Walls
This exhibition features the work of many extraordinary artists I admire greatly. Please come and see us.
Read about “Garden Renaissance“
Purple Fiesta with Zipties
I added a zip tie blanket to Purple Fiesta and swooned. See before and after and tell me which one you like better.
Before
1” cut strips of African print fabric, acrylic yarn, pony beads, pom poms, bells, 850 paracord, cool LED lights on a gold recovered shopping cart. 36 x 40 x 24 in, 2021
After
Newark Arts Festival 2021
The 20th year anniversary of the Newark Arts Festival 2021 is October 7 through 10, 2021.
My Middle Passage installation of 3 emotional baggage carts will be in the Newark Arts Headquarters at 609 Broadstreet, Newark NJ.
I plan to be at the Festival for the opening on Thursday October 7th and bopping around the festive that weekend. DM me if you want to link and gallery hop.
NEWARK ARTS FESTIVAL HOURS
| Thursday, October 7th | 6pm-9pm |
| Friday, October 8th | 12pm-8pm |
| Saturday, October 9th | 12pm-8pm |
| Sunday, October 10th | 12pm-8pm |
Covid Protocols: To enter the Newark Arts Headquarters (609 Broad Street), all will be required to show a vaccination card or negative Covid test taken within 72 hours of arrival. Masks and social distancing are mandatory.
Come see me at JCAST HQ
- Friday (10/1) 4-7pm
- Saturday (10/2) 12-6pm
- Sunday (10/3) 12-6pm
Come see me during at Art 150’s JCAST HQ, enter on the corner of 1st Street and Provost. Ride the elevator up to the second floor. There is lots to see and do.
I have three emotional baggage carts in Pro Art’s Reversed Engineered in the main gallery. One emotional baggage cart in Art House Production’s Renaissance. In the common area lobby you are invited to make strings of beads of recycled bottle caps and interact with my hair sculpture, All Dressed Up and Nowhere To Go.
I’ll be around the corner in Studio #231, working on Crossroads Jail Net.
There is plenty to see and collect including mini-baggage carts, affordable monoprints and ice dyed & printed tote bags.
JCAST: Theda Sandiford Art Open Studio: #231
Please plan to spend some of your JCAST with me. Im looking forward to seeing you.
Friday, October 1st 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Saturday, October 2nd, 12:00 PM – 6:00 AM
Sunday, October 3rd 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM
We all carry emotional baggage. This manifests differently for each of us. Some of us carry shopping carts of pain and bitterness while some of us sport a wee tote bag. How we choose to handle our baggage makes a difference. We have the choice, to let it define us or to let it go and move forward.
My Emotional Baggage Carts are vessels for racial trauma. My baggage carts serve to separate myself from these experiences. Each recovered shopping cart is woven with recycled rope, bottle caps, twine, paracord, fabric, LED lights, pony beads and zip tie blankets.
There is opportunity to shift structural language when a person is invited to play with unexpected materials without any expectations. Join me to discover what materials are used to create these sculptures, and look within, to recognize and release the emotional baggage you, yourself are carrying. Audience participation is encouraged
Throughout the weekend, you are invited to make strings of beads of recycled bottle caps in the 2nd floor common area of Art 150 and visit with me in my studio #231. Come play with me.
I will have a selection of prints, tote bags and mini baggage carts for sale.
NOTE: Theda Sandiford’s Art 150 Studio #231 on the second floor of 150 Bay Entrance lobby for the 2nd floor studios is separate from that for the residential units of 150 Bay and can be found at the NE corner of the building, at the corner of 1st St. and Provost St.
14C Juried Show!
I’m so excited that my emotional baggage carts were juried into the 14C Juried Show.
During the pandemic I picked up weaving again. I had not weaved since I was a child. To refresh, I took a virtual weaving workshop with Textile Arts Center (NYC) and then fell down a rabbit hole of recommended videos on YouTube University.
In the process of relearning these laten skills, I came face to face with many frustrations and triggers connected to the emotional baggage I have been squirrelling away for years. Guilt, resentment, judgement, colorism, fear, insecurity…
With these works I am exorcising these demons. Sharing these works is both liberating and anxiety inducing at the same time. I am still processing emotionally and artistically.
Self Portrait
Natural Plastic Environment: Doggie Poop Foliage
Do you walk a sidewalk where your neighbors may or may not clean up after their dog? I do. And when you are fortunate your more considerate neighbors leave little green doggie poop bags piled up, in and around the garbage can. A lovely cesspool. My work, Natural Plastic Environment- Doggie Poop Foliage, reimagines doggie poop bags as a cascade of whimsical tropical flowering vines. The foliage is made with Reflective Hollow Braided polypropylene cord, knotted plastic doggie poop bags, and yellow duct tape.
