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.
#NAF2022 Opening Night, Oct 6th 6-9pm
Join me for Opening Night of the Newark Arts Festival and celebrate Newark Arts Festival: Artful Healing, the NAF 2022 annual group exhibition!
Curated by NAF 2022 Lead Curator Adrienne Wheeler and the Museum’s Elena Muñoz.
NAF 2022 kicks off with a festive celebration featuring live performances by dancers, drummers, vocalists and more. View artwork and explore healing spaces throughout the museum.
The theme in 2022 features art as medicine. Participating artists demonstrate what healing means or looks like to them and inspire others with their messages of hope, comfort, and encouragement.
You will leave uplifted and inspired!
Join us to celebrate NAF 2022 at the opening event on October 6.
LOCATION: The Newark Museum of Art, 49 Washington Street, Newark NJ 07192
October Exhibitions
Sensing Woman
Dates September 27- October 1
Location: C24 Gallery, 560 W 24th St, New York, NY
Tickets are available for purchase at https://sensingwoman.org/
VIP Opening Sept 27th @ 6:30pm with Eve Ensler, the playwright of the Vagina Monologues.
My Artist Talk is Thursday, September 29th 10:30am
The REBEL Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: September 29 – October 28
Opening Reception September 29 6pm-9pm
Location: The Untitled Space 45 Lispenard St, New York, NY
Emotional Baggage Cart Installation JCAST 2022
Friday, September 30, 5:00-9:00pm
Location: Art 150, window of studio #231. 150 Bay Street. Enter at Provost and First Street and ride the elevator to the 2nd floor. Studio # 231
Clutch My Pearls @ JCAST 2022
Saturday, October 1, 1:00-6:00pm
Sunday, October 2, 1:00-6:00pm
Location: Nimbus Arts Center, 329 Warren St, Jersey City, NJ
Bridge Art Gallery presents Garden Renaissance
Exhibition Dates: September 8 – October 2
Location: Firmament Gallery Space at the Nimbus Arts Center in Downtown Jersey City.
Joyful Resistance (solo show)
Exhibition Dates: September 8 – October 7
Location: Ivy Brown Gallery; 675 Hudson St, New York, NY
Community Art Making: Wednesday, September 28, 3:00-6:00pm
Closing Reception: Friday, October 7, 3:00-5:00pm
Newark Arts Festival
NAF will celebrate “Artful Healing,” this Fall in New Jersey’s largest city. NAF will showcase Newark’s dynamic and diverse arts and culture sector from Thursday, October 6 through Sunday, October 9, 2022.
Dates: Thursday, October 6 -Sunday, October 9
Location: Newark Museum of Art, 33 Washington Street, Newark, NJ,
Inside And Out
Dates: October 8- December 16
Opening Reception, Saturday, October 2022, 5:30-7:30pm
Location: The Gallery at Hillside Square, 8 Hillside Avenue, Montclair NJ
Free Your Mind Artist Talk @ Art Crawl Harlem/ Governors Island
Artist Talk, Saturday October 15, 1:00pm
The installation runs through the end of October 2022
Location: Governors Island, 406b Colonels Row
Wonderland
Exhibition Dates: September 15 – October 20, 2022
Location: Trolley Barn Gallery; 489 Main St, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
2022 New Jersey Arts Annual: Reemergence.
Exhibition On View: June 18, 2022 – April 30, 2023
Museum Hours: Tuesday – Sunday, 9am to 4:45pm; Closed Mondays & all State Holidays
Location: New Jersey State Museum; 205 West State Street Trenton NJ
Sculpture Walk Springfield 2022-2023
Exhibition Dates: Now through May 21, 2023
Location: 411 N. Sherman Parkway, Springfield MO
Rebel
The REBEL Exhibition, a group show presented in collaboration with The Untitled Magazine’s 10th Anniversary REBEL Issue opens on September 29th and on view through October 27, 2022.
.The ‘REBEL’ Exhibition shares the work of artists who not only take risks, but who stand up against oppressive forces, challenging the status quo. The exhibition celebrates true, unbridled authenticity and artists who have had the courage to follow their own path despite any obstacles.” – Curator Indira Cesarine
Please come meet me and I Can’t Breathe at the Opening Reception, September 29 6pm-9pm.
Exhibition Dates: September 29 – October 28
Location: The Untitled Space 45 Lispenard St, New York, NY
JCAST Activity: CLUTCH MY PEARLS
There is opportunity to shift structural language when a person is invited to play with unexpected materials without any expectations. Throughout the weekend of JCAST, Sky Garden Gallery and Theda Sandiford invite you to make strings of beads from recycled bottle caps.
Drawing inspiration from various beading traditions, mixing different bottle caps to make a string of colorful oversized beaded necklaces. Your creation will become a part of an upcoming installation celebrating personal adornment.
You can also tour Sky Garden Gallery and interact with my Emotional Baggage Cart series.
I am looking forward to making, with you….
JCAST Hours
- Friday September 30, 3:00-8:00 pm
- Saturday October 1, 12:00-6:00 pm
- Sunday October 2, 12:00-6:00 pm
Location: Sky Garden Gallery, 150 Bay Street, PH9, Jersey City NJ
NOTE: Entrance 150 Bay residential lobby with the sculpture in the courtyard and ride the elevator to the 10th floor, Sky Garden Gallery is in PH9. Follow the signs to the gallery.
Joyful Resistance: Event of the Week
Exhibition Dates: September 8 – October 7
Location: Ivy Brown Gallery; 675 Hudson St, New York, NY
212-925-1111 by appointment
Up Next… Community Art Making: Wednesday, September 28, 3:00-6:00pm
Clutch My Pearls
Drawing inspiration from various beading traditions, join me in mixing different bottle caps to make a string of colorful oversized beaded necklaces.
Your creation will become a part of an upcoming installation celebrating personal adornment.
Followed By…
Closing Reception: Friday, October 7, 3:00-5:00pm
Theda’s JCAST 2022
The 32nd Annual Jersey City Art and Studio Tour, will be held Sept 29 – Oct 2 and feature over 1000 artists in 140 locations across Jersey City.
Build a calendar of art outings here on www.thejcast.com
AND make a plan to catch up with me and see my art at a couple venues within walking distance from one another downtown Jersey City.
My JCAST shows
Bridge Art Gallery presents the Garden Renaissance @ Nimbus Arts Center. 329 Warren Street, Jersey City
Timeless @ Art House Gallery. 180 Morgan Street (corner of Marin Blvd and Bay St)
Emotional Baggage Cart Installation @ Art 150, studio #231 and common area. 150 Bay Street. Enter at Provost and First Street and ride the elevator to the 2nd floor.
Come see me in person during JCAST
Friday 9/30 – Art150’s Opening reception 5-9pm, visit me in Studio#231. 150 Bay Street, Jersey City. Enter at Provost and First Street and ride the elevator to the 2nd floor.
On Saturday and Sunday come have fun and make art with me.
Drawing inspiration from various beading traditions, we will mix different bottle caps to make a string of colorful oversized beaded necklaces. Your creation will become a part of an upcoming installation celebrating personal adornment.
Saturday 10/1 – Clutch My Pearls 1-6pm, Nimbus Arts Center. 329 Warren Street, Jersey City
Sunday 10/2– Clutch My Pearls 1-6pm, Nimbus Arts Center. 329 Warren Street, Jersey City
Joyful Resistance: Community Event Next Week
Exhibition Dates: September 8 – October 7
Location: Ivy Brown Gallery; 675 Hudson St, New York, NY
212-925-1111 by appointment
Up Next… Community Art Making: Wednesday, September 28, 3:00-6:00pm
Clutch My Pearls
Drawing inspiration from various beading traditions, join me, mixing different bottle caps to make a string of colorful oversized beaded necklaces.
Your creation will become a part of an upcoming installation celebrating personal adornment.
Followed by…
Closing Reception: Friday, October 7, 3:00-5:00pm
Sensing Woman: A multisensory event for reproductive freedom
Presented by Rosebud Woman
Curated by WoArt
Sensing Woman is a gathering to shift minds and hearts, featuring 50 contemporary visual artworks, and programs spanning culture, medicine, and governance on female embodiment.
Artworks are available for presale at SensingWoman.org.
All profits will be donated to organizations working to protect and defend autonomy over our bodies, maternal health, and care for women, including The Center for Reproductive Rights and The Center for Intimacy Justice.
Learn more about the curator, Christina Massey’s vision for the project HERE.
Exhibition Dates: September 27- October 1
Location: C24 Gallery, 560 W 24th St, New York, NY
The gallery is free and open to the public daily from 3-6pm.
I will be giving an Artist Talk on Thursday, September 29th 10:30am
#SensingWoman #SensingWoman2022 #OurBodiesOurFutures #ReproRights #BodilyAutonomy
