I am getting ready for the JC Friday Art Supply Swap. And to be honest I’m struggling with my hoarder tendencies while attempting to Marie Kondo my stash.
How are you doing collecting art supplies to swap? If there is something you are specifically looking for, drop a comment,
And come to Sky Garden Gallery’s Art Supply Swap with your items and trade, them for something else.
March 4, 2022, 5pm – 8pm Location: Art 150 studio #321 @ 150 Bay Street, Jersey City. Entrance at Provost and First Street.
Visions & Voices highlights the works of African American Artists from the Mid-Atlantic region.
While twenty different artists were selected to show works, five artists were selected to have their pieces considered to be added to the The Biggs Museum of American Art’s permanent collection.
The winning piece will be decided entirely by public vote. The winning artist will lead an artist talk on May 18 from 5:30 – 6:30 PM.
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.
Microaggressions are subtle, intentional — and oftentimes unintentional — everydayinteractions or behaviors that communicate hostile, derogatory or negative messages or assumptions toward historically marginalized groups. The weight of these daily interactions underpins very real consequences… stress, anger, frustration, self-doubt and ultimately feelings of powerlessness and invisibility.
This project intends to expose these interactions and provide a release for the participating individuals. Participants are invited to write a story about a microaggression they have experienced onto a ribbon and tie this ribbon onto a netto 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 the installation space, as visitors move throughout the space, motion sensors trigger monotone computer voice recordings of story ribbons.
In 2021 Free Your Mind toured, collecting story ribbons in Bayonne NJ, Jersey City NJ, Sunsets @ The Standard, Miami Art Week. In 2022 the installation will travel to ExpoChicago April 4-7 Navy Pier and will make stops in Brooklyn and Newark this year.
Free Your MindFree Your Mind – detail of Story Ribbons
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
Interested individuals, institutions and businesses can support the project by engaging themselves and/or communities to collect story ribbons
SHARE YOUR STORY >>
Share a story about a microaggression you have experienced? How did it make you feel?
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.
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.
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.
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 & VoicesExhibition Dates: February 4, 2022 – May 21, 2022
