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March Exhibitions & Beyond

The Soul of African American Art

Exhibition Date closes March 5

Location: Mayo Performing Arts Center (MPAC), 100 South Street in Morristown NJ, 

JC Friday: Make Fabric Rope with Theda Sandiford

Workshop Date: March 3,  6:00-8:00pm

Location: Studio #231 at Art 150, 150 Bay Street.

Enter the building at First Streat and Provost Street and ride the elevator to the 2nd floor.

ATA@NOVARTIS – BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2023

Exhibition Dates: February 28- March 28

Location: Novartis, One Health Plaza, Building 434 Gallery East Hanover, NJ

Closing Reception:  March 28th 6-9pm

Each One Teach One: Preserving the Legacy in Perpetuity 

Opening Reception:  March 16, 6-9pm

Exhibition Dates: March 17 – August 27, 2023

Location: The Morris Museum, 6 Normandy Heights Road Morristown, NJ

2022 New Jersey Arts Annual: Reemergence.  Artist Talk

Artist Talk: March 22, 12:00-1:00pm

Location: New Jersey State Museum; 205 West State Street Trenton NJ

Theda Sandiford: Triggered, Truth & Transformation

Exhibition Dates: March 25-May 28, 2023

Location: Schweinfurth Art Center; 205 Genesee St. Auburn, NY 13021

Free Your Mind: MAFA Virtual Artist Talk

Date: March 28, 2023, 7:00pn ET

Register Here: https://www.lessonface.com/apply/Free-Your-Mind-Public-Textile-Social-Justice-Art-Project

TSGNY Connections

Exhibition Dates: March 28 – April 22, 2023

Location: Ceres Gallery, 547 W 27th Street. #201, New York, NY

Theda Sandiford: Triggered, Truth & Transformation @ Wa Na Wari

Exhibition Dates: April 22, 2023- July 17, 2023

Location: Wa Na Wari, 911 24th Avenue, Seattle WA 

2022 New Jersey Arts Annual: Reemergence exhibition.

Exhibition On View: June 18, 2022 – April 30, 2023

Museum Hours: Tuesday – Sunday, 9 am to 4:45 pm; Closed Mondays & all State Holidays

Location: New Jersey State Museum; 205 West State Street Trenton NJ

Lady Whistledown

Venus & Serena @ Governors Island

Exhibition Dates: May 5- October 2023

Location: Art Crawl Harlem, Governor’s Island

Free Your Mind@ MAFA 2023 Conference

Exhibition Dates: June 22- June 25, 2023

Location: Millersville University, Millersville, PA

Theda Sandiford: Triggered, Truth & Transformation @ The Lab

Exhibition Dates: July 1, 2023- September 17, 2023   

Location: The Lab at Krasl Art Center.  707 Lake Blvd, St Joseph, MI

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ATA@NOVARTIS

Great Resignation: Emotional Baggage Cart is being installed in the gallery at Novartis in East Hanover.

Im curious to see what emotional baggage is left behind in my cart by the employees of this the pharmaceutical company…

Exhibition Dates: February 28- March 28

Location: Novartis, One Health Plaza, Building 434 Gallery East Hanover, NJ

Opening Reception: February 28th, 12-2pm

Closing Reception:  March 28th 6-9pm

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Save The Date: Triggered Truth & Transformation

I’m getting a new Free Your Mind net ready to collect microagressions for my upcoming solo show, at Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn NY

Exhibition Dates: March 25 to May 28, 2023

Location: Schweinfurth Art Center

Artist Statement:

Despite the growing commitment to racial equity, the day-to-day experiences of women of color are not improving. Women of color face similar types and frequencies of microaggressions as they did two years ago – and they remain far more likely than white women to face disrespectful and “othering” behavior.

The weight of these triggers underpins very real consequences… stress, anger, frustration, self-doubt and ultimately feelings of powerlessness and invisibility. These triggers come with a hefty toll of emotional baggage.

Extensions of rope, wrapped, knotted, woven, and embellished with recycled textiles, zip ties, ribbon and yarn, gingerly invite the audience into off-the-wall conversations about the “respectability politics” of black hair.  My Emotional Baggage Carts are vessels for this racial trauma.  The act of making, weaves the sting of daily microaggressions into the cart, freeing me from these constraints.

More details to follow on the opening and community engagement events… I hope you will be able to join me

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Dark Matter: Artist Talk!

Saturday, February 11th 6-8pm please join ARTNOIR in an artist-led talk and tour to celebrate the closing of DARK MATTER at KATES-FERRI PROJECTS 561 Grand Street NYC.

“A Conversation Among Peers” 

Led by Jamel Robinson, Theda Sandiford, Rudy Shepherd, Jairo Sosa, Roscoè B. Thické II and Natalie Kates-Ferri

RSVP: hello@artnoir.co

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February Exhibitions and Beyond

Dark Matter

Exhibition Dates: January 13- February 11, 2023

Location: Kates- Ferri Projects, 561 Grand St, New York, NY 

https://www.katesferriprojects.com/

Tenuous Threads

Exhibition Dates: January 24th- February 11, 2023

Location:  Atlantic Gallery, 548 W 28th St #540, New York, NY 

The Soul of African American Art

Exhibition Dates: January 22-March 5

Location: Mayo Performing Arts Center (MPAC), 100 South Street in Morristown NJ, 

Each One Teach One: Preserving the Legacy in Perpetuity 

Exhibition Dates: March 3 – July 30, 2023

Location: The Morris Museum, 6 Normandy Heights Road Morristown, NJ

Theda Sandiford: Triggered, Truth & Transformation

Exhibition Dates: March 25-May 28, 2023

Location: Schweinfurth Art Center; 205 Genesee St. Auburn, NY 13021

New Jersey Arts Annual: Reemergence.  Artist Talk

Artist Talk: March 22, 12:00-1:00pm

Location: New Jersey State Museum; 205 West State Street Trenton NJ

Free Your Mind: MAFA Virtual Artist Talk

Date: March 28, 2023

Theda Sandiford: Triggered, Truth & Transformation @ Wa Na Wari

Exhibition Dates: April 22, 2023- July 17, 2023

Location: Wa Na Wari, 911 24th Avenue, Seattle WA 

https://www.wanawari.org/

New Jersey Arts Annual: Reemergence exhibition.

Exhibition On View: June 18, 2022 – April 30, 2023

Museum Hours: Tuesday – Sunday, 9 am to 4:45 pm; Closed Mondays & all State Holidays

Location: New Jersey State Museum; 205 West State Street Trenton NJ

Sculpture Walk Springfield 2022-2023

Exhibition Dates: April 23,2022- May 21, 2023

Location: 411 N. Sherman Parkway, Springfield MO 65802.

Free Your Mind@ MAFA 2023 Conference

Exhibition Dates: June 22- June 25, 2023

Location: Millersville University, Millersville, PA

Theda Sandiford: Triggered, Truth & Transformation @ The Lab

Exhibition Dates: July 1, 2023- September 17, 2023   

Location: The Lab at Krasl Art Center.  707 Lake Blvd, St Joseph, MI

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Tenuous Threads

I’m pleased to share that one of my new Hair Rope pieces will be included in this show of contemporary work incorporating textiles, fibers, threads and mixed media.

The show description really resonated with me… All of life is connected through networks, systems, fibers, and webs. Communication (visual, verbal, electrical, chemical, and kinetic) enables an exchange of information amongst all life forms. Tenuous Threads alludes to the delicate lines that bring us together and sets us apart; that joins us yet repels us. 

The opening reception is Thursday January 26th, 5:30- 8:00pm. I hope to see you there.


Exhibition Dates: January 24th- February 11, 2023

Location:  Atlantic Gallery, 548 W 28th St #540, New York, NY 

Blue Ribbon Sunset In St. Croix, Aqua dyed cotton rope, acrylic yarn, chanelle, cotton printed fabric, jersey fabric and ribbon, 40 x 10 x 8 in, 2021
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Triggered, Truth & Transformation

I have three solo shows in 2023 focused on this theme.

Despite the growing commitment to racial equity, the day-to-day experiences of women of color are not improving. Women of color face similar types and frequencies of microaggressions as they did two years ago – and they remain far more likely than white women to face disrespectful and “othering” behavior.

The weight of these triggers underpins very real consequences… stress, anger, frustration, self-doubt and ultimately feelings of powerlessness and invisibility. These triggers come with a hefty toll of emotional baggage.

Extensions of rope, wrapped, knotted, woven, and embellished with recycled textiles, zip ties, ribbon and yarn, gingerly invite the audience into off the-wall conversations about the “respectability politics” of black hair.  My Emotional Baggage Carts are vessels for this racial trauma.  The act of making, weaves the sting of daily microaggressions into the cart, freeing me from these constraints.

Exhibition Schedule

Exhibition Dates: March 25-May 28, 2023

Location: Schweinfurth Art Center; 205 Genesee St. Auburn, NY 13021

Exhibition Dates: April 22,  2023- July 17, 2023

Location: Wa Na Wari, 911 24th Avenue, Seattle WA 

Exhibition Dates: July 1, 2023- September 17, 2023   

Location: The Lab at Krasl Art Center.  707 Lake Blvd, St Joseph, MI

Politics of Hair: Camo Yellow January 2020, Cotton rope, wool, acrylic and reflective yarns, recycled sari thread, satin and cotton ribbons. 65 x 8 x 5 in
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Dark Matter

Dark matter takes up an estimated 25% of the vast universe. It is not observable through the human senses. In the darkness of space, its presence is detected by its interaction with gravity and its mass bending light around it, similar to refracted distortions in water. It is an uncomfortable truth that so much exists in our reality, yet so much is beyond our perception.

Like light revealing dark matter in space, the artists in the exhibition use the physicality of their work to present unrepresentable realities and experiences. The artists offer a range of engagement, from providing comfort to illustrating society’s harmful, unacknowledged ills that impact groups differently.

Each artist in DARK MATTER brings personal and systemic concerns to the foreground. By starting with the intangible, the artists render perceptible the dark matter of society.

DARK MATTER features artists Kevin Claiborne, Turiya Magadlela, Jamel Robinson, Nnorom Samuel, Theda Sandiford, Rudy Shepherd, Jairo Sosa, and Roscoè B. Thické III on view Tuesday, January 10th to Saturday, February 11th, with a reception on Friday, January 13th, 2023. Mark your calendar for a performance by Rudy Shepherd takes on Saturday, January 21st, and on Thursday, February 2nd, a special program with Art Noir.

Exhibition Dates: January 13- February 11, 2023

Location: Kates- Ferri Projects, 561 Grand St, New York, NY