Category: Exhibitions

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(EM)power (EM)brace (EM)body

I am excited to share that my work Corporate Crossroads Jail Net has been selected for Surface Designs Associations online exhibit (EM)power (EM)brace (EM)body.

(EM)power (EM)brace (EM)body explores concepts of bodies from social, political, and psychological points of view, considering the body as a site for liberation, reclamation, and/or empowerment. The artwork featured interrogates themes from body autonomy to traditional constructions of beauty and gender, whether deeply personal and/or challenging, dismantling, and speaking to larger societal structures. 

– Curator Katayoun Bahrami

Life at the Crossroads
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Forecast // Recast

What a thrill to be selected for Surface Design Association’s juried members’ exhibition held in partnership with the Chehalem Cultural Center. 

Exhibition Dates: December 6- January 27th, 2023

Location: Chehalem Cultural Center; 415 E Sheridan St, Newberg, OR 

Blaty Black Blanket, 2022, Recycled commercial fishing net and black 4″ zip tie blanket on white leather chaise lounge chair.
120 x 60 x 36 in,
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Public Sculpture Symposium: Concept, Material & Placemaking

Date and Time:  November 10, 2022, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM

“Public art can transform a city and invigorate a public space, but what does that mean for Springfield, Missouri? Join the Department of Art + Design and Sculpture Walk Springfield for a panel discussion moderated by sculpture professor Deidre Argyle. Featured sculptors J. Aaron Alderman, Jenn Peek and Theda Sandiford will explore how public sculpture exhibitions contribute to the social and cultural fabric of communities.”

Registration for this free webinar is required. 

FREE EVENT Register Here: 

 

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November Exhibitions and Beyond

Visiting Artists, Designers and Scholars Series: Public Sculpture Symposium: Concept, Material and Placemaking

Date and time:  November 10, 2022, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM, 

Registration for this free webinar is required. 

FREE EVENT Register below

https://missouristate.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cKwy8t52T_yGJj1l0XCmGg

Forecast//Recast

Surface Design Association’s juried members’ exhibition

Exhibition Dates: December 6- January 27th, 2023

January 4, 2023: Online panel discussion held as part of Textile Talks

Location: Chehalem Cultural Center; 415 E Sheridan St, Newberg, OR 

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

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

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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.

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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. ​​