Category: Exhibitions

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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.

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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

Double Dutch Pony Bead Braids, August 2022, Cider Six Packs and various single use bottle caps strung and knotted with blue and white polyurethane rope 55 x 72 x 8 in
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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

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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

Double Dutch Pony Bead Braids, August 2022, Cider Six Packs and various single use bottle caps strung and knotted with blue and white polyurethane rope 55 x 72 x 8 in
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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

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Joyful Resistance Event This Week

Exhibition Dates: September 8 – October 7

Location: Ivy Brown Gallery; 675 Hudson St, New York, NY

Up Next… Artist Talk: Friday, September 23, 6:00-8:00pm

I’ll be sharing what Joyful Resistance means to me and how I transform disappointment into beauty and answering any questions you may have about the works in the show.

Followed by

Community Art Making: Wednesday, September 28, 3:00-6:00pm

Closing Reception: Friday, October 7, 3:00-5:00pm

Black Ballerina, September 2020, 100′ of slip half hitched chain black glitter 1/4” cotton rope, knotted with ribbon, recycled ribbon, sari ribbon, acrylic yarn, broken jewelry and 8” zip ties on bamboo ring.
64 x 14 x 2 in
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Joyful Resistance: Schedule This Week

Exhibition Dates: September 8 – October 7

Location: Ivy Brown Gallery; 675 Hudson St, New York, NY

Up next… Beer Tasting: Wednesday September 14, 4:00-6:00pm

Come taste my favorite fruited beer from local brewery Departed Soles, Jersey City NJ and see my show.

Followed by…

Artist Talk: Friday, September 23, 6:00-8:00pm

Community Art Making: Wednesday, September 28, 3:00-6:00pm

Closing Reception: Friday, October 7, 3:00-5:00pm

Off Duty, July 2022, Spray painted shopping cart seat woven with webbed polyurethane ribbons, recovered taxi sign, and a discarded teddy bear wrapped in yarn, paracord and bottlecap necklace. 32 x 10 x 19 in
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Today is JC Friday

There is opportunity to shift structural language when a person plays with unexpected materials without any expectations. My Emotional Baggage Carts are designed to draw you in and spark your curiosity. Not only to discover what materials are used to create these sculptures, but to look within, recognize and release the emotional baggage you may be carrying. 

You are invited to work with me on an Emotional Baggage Cart in progress at Art 150, 150 Bay Street, Studio #231 on Friday September 9th from 6-9pm.

Enter Art150 at 1st Street and Provost St and ride the elevator to the second floor. Sudio #231.

Feel free to bring any recycled fibers or textiles to weave onto the cart. No experience necessary.

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Free Your Mind @ Butter

BUTTER seeks to push boundaries by elevating Black artists in the national conversation, promoting equity in the arts and fueling the creative economy. The multi-day fine art fair in Indianapolis will showcase the works of more than 50 Black visual artists from across the country. I am representing New Jersey with my installation “Free Your Mind” and my Emotional Baggage Cart series.

General admission tickets are available for purchase at www.butterartfair.com for $35 (guests 18 and under are free). Preview Night tickets (includes Thursday night access) will be available for purchase for $175.

I will be attending the VIP Preview night and part of opening day before heading back to Jerz.

Thursday, September 1: VIP Preview Night, 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Friday, September 2: Opening Day and Night, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Saturday, September 3: 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.