Miami Sunset

I am pleased to participate in Sunsets, an Energy Balance Gathering, a special engagement hosted by Ed. Varie in Miami Beach November 27, 2021.

Sunsets will present a textile installation of artist Kameron Robinson, an abstract, expressive body of work, aimed to envelop the viewer in the warmth and healing energy of the Sun.

Free Your Mind, is a public textile social justice art project aiming to collect, exhibit, embed, and release personal narratives about Microagressrions in a textile art piece created by Theda Sandiford.

Sunsets will be on view Saturday November 27, with a private cocktail reception by RSVP only. 

Please RSVP to rsvp@edvarie.com or text 917.971.5898 for location and additional details.

November Exhibitions/Up Next

Art Fair 14C Juried Competition

The 3rd Edition of Art Fair 14C
November 12 – 14, 2021
The Glass Gallery at Mana Contemporary
10 Senate Place
Jersey City, New Jersey

This is the second year; my work has been juried into Art Fair 14C. The Juried Show is open to artists who live, or have a studio, in the state of New Jersey.

Come see me in booth J9.

I’ll be showing two emotional baggage carts and  a bottle cap pear installation along with 20 new mini baggage carts.

Tickets for Art Fair 14C are now on sale. Ticket information for the public can be found on this website: https://artfair14c.com/tickets

Untitled Art Miami Beach 2021

I’ll be showing during Untitled Art. More specifics to come.

Untitled Art Miami Beach 2021 will take place Monday, November 29 through Saturday, December 4, 2021, at 12th Street and Ocean Drive within a custom-built, air-conditioned structure on the beach featuring curated presentations, live events, artist performances and more.

Address: Ocean Drive and 12th Street, Miami Beach, Florida

Press/VIP Preview:

Mon, 29 Nov, 1–8pm

Opening Hours:

Tues, 30 Nov, 11am–7pm
Wed, 1 Dec, 11am–7pm
Thu, 2 Dec, 11am–7pm
Fri, 3 Dec, 11am–7pm
Sat, 4 Dec, 11am–7pm

Summit Public Art: The Baggage We Carry

Public Art Installation On View through May 2022

On Location: Summit Village Green, 356 Broad Street Summit, NJ 

Three Emotional Baggage Carts are on display for the next year.  I want to draw people in and spark their curiosity. Not only to discover what materials are used to create these sculptures, but to look within and recognize the emotional baggage they are carrying. Each cart is affixed with a solar panel. When the sun sets, the carts light up and take on a new meaning and form, glowing from within.

I’ll be at 14C

Art Fair 14C
November 12-14
The Glass Gallery at Mana Contemporary

TICKETS


Join me for the 3rd edition of Art Fair 14C, showcasing over 120 regional and international artists and galleries. The annual fair provides a showcase for hundreds of artists from New Jersey, New York and around the world, giving area art lovers exposure to a wide variety of visual artworks, in all media and for all budgets. 

I will be participating in the Juried Show, showcasing my Emotional Baggage Carts, big and small, along with new work using single use plastic bottle caps.



Newark Arts Festival 2021

The 20th year anniversary of the Newark Arts Festival 2021 is October 7 through 10, 2021.

My Middle Passage installation of 3 emotional baggage carts will be in the Newark Arts Headquarters at 609 Broadstreet, Newark NJ.

I plan to be at the Festival for the opening on Thursday October 7th and bopping around the festive that weekend. DM me if you want to link and gallery hop.

NEWARK ARTS FESTIVAL HOURS

Thursday, October 7th6pm-9pm
Friday, October 8th12pm-8pm
Saturday, October 9th12pm-8pm
Sunday, October 10th12pm-8pm

Covid Protocols: To enter the Newark Arts Headquarters (609 Broad Street), all will be required to show a vaccination card or negative Covid test taken within 72 hours of arrival. Masks and social distancing are mandatory.

Come see me at JCAST HQ

  • Friday (10/1) 4-7pm 
  • Saturday (10/2) 12-6pm 
  • Sunday (10/3)  12-6pm 

Come see me during at Art 150’s JCAST HQ, enter on the corner of 1st Street and Provost. Ride the elevator up to the second floor. There is lots to see and do.

I have three emotional baggage carts in Pro Art’s Reversed Engineered in the main gallery. One emotional baggage cart in Art House Production’s Renaissance. In the common area lobby you are invited to make strings of beads of recycled bottle caps and interact with my hair sculpture, All Dressed Up and Nowhere To Go.

I’ll be around the corner in Studio #231, working on Crossroads Jail Net.

There is plenty to see and collect including mini-baggage carts, affordable monoprints and ice dyed & printed tote bags.

Come see me.

JCAST: Theda Sandiford Art Open Studio: #231

Please plan to spend some of your JCAST with me. Im looking forward to seeing you.

Friday, October 1st 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Saturday, October 2nd, 12:00 PM – 6:00 AM

Sunday, October 3rd 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM

We all carry emotional baggage. This manifests differently for each of us. Some of us carry shopping carts of pain and bitterness while some of us sport a wee tote bag. How we choose to handle our baggage makes a difference. We have the choice, to let it define us or to let it go and move forward.

My Emotional Baggage Carts are vessels for racial trauma. My baggage carts serve to separate myself from these experiences. Each recovered shopping cart is woven with recycled rope, bottle caps, twine, paracord, fabric, LED lights, pony beads and zip tie blankets.

There is opportunity to shift structural language when a person is invited to play with unexpected materials without any expectations. Join me to discover what materials are used to create these sculptures, and look within, to recognize and release the emotional baggage you, yourself are carrying. Audience participation is encouraged

Throughout the weekend, you are invited to make strings of beads of recycled bottle caps in the 2nd floor common area of Art 150 and visit with me in my studio #231. Come play with me.

I will have a selection of prints, tote bags and mini baggage carts for sale.

NOTE: Theda Sandiford’s Art 150 Studio #231 on the second floor of 150 Bay Entrance lobby for the 2nd floor studios is separate from that for the residential units of 150 Bay and can be found at the NE corner of the building, at the corner of 1st St. and Provost St.

14C Juried Show!

I’m so excited that my emotional baggage carts were juried into the 14C Juried Show.

During the pandemic I picked up weaving again. I had not weaved since I was a child. To refresh, I took a virtual weaving workshop with Textile Arts Center (NYC) and then fell down a rabbit hole of recommended videos on YouTube University.

In the process of relearning these laten skills, I came face to face with many frustrations and triggers connected to the emotional baggage I have been squirrelling away for years. Guilt, resentment, judgement, colorism, fear, insecurity…

With these works I am exorcising these demons. Sharing these works is both liberating and anxiety inducing at the same time. I am still processing emotionally and artistically.