Who’s come with me to the opening?
Opening Reception: March 26, 2022 / 6-8pm
Exhibition Dates March 22 – May 21, 2022
Location: Artworks Trenton; 19 Everett Alley, Trenton, NJ
NJSCA Fellowship Exhibition
March Exhibitions
Visions & Voices; Juried Show
Exhibition Dates: February 4, 2022 – May 21, 2022
Location: The Biggs Museum of American Art, 406 Federal St Dover DE 19901
Please Vote for me in the Public Art Award
Porcupine Zip Tie
Exquisite Corpse 2022
Exhibition Dates: March 1, 2022 – March 31, 2022
Location: Nimbus Arts Center: 329 Warren St, Jersey City, NJ
2022 JC Friday: Art Supply Swap
Date: Friday Mar 4, 2022 from 5:00-8:00pm
Location: Art 150 Studio #231, 150 Bay Street, enter at 1st Street and Provost St and ride the elevator up to 2nd floor.
Bring a bag of art supplies and swap it for something else.
NJSCA Fellowship Exhibition
Exhibition Dates March 22 – May 21, 2022
Opening Reception: March 26, 2022 / 6-8pm
Location: Artworks Trenton; 19 Everett Alley, Trenton, NJ
Orange You Glad To See Me
Craft Nouveau!
Exhibition Dates: April 1, 2022 – May 28th, 2022
Opening Reception: April 16, 2022 4-8pm
Closing Reception: May 21, 2022 4-8pm
Location: Blue Lines Art; 405 Vernon Street Suite 100, Roseville, CA 95678
“Wax Hair Color Is It!” Mixed Media Fiber 100’x 1/2″ 2019
Emotional Baggage Carts @ Expo Chicago
The International Exposition of Contemporary & Modern Art
Exhibition Dates: APRIL 7-10 2022
Location: Navy Pier Chicago, Booth 377
Theda Sandiford: Joyful Resistance
Exhibition Dates April 22, 2022 – June 4th, 2022
Location: The Center for Contemporary Art; 2020 Burnt Mills Road, Bedminster NJ
Four structure, Vintage hat, shoes and bag, 3 ply cotton rope, pears, rhinestones, wrapped rope, yarn, trim, beading on steel structure
Sculpture Walk Springfield 2022-2023
Exhibition Dates: April 23,2022- May 21, 2023
Location: 411 N. Sherman Parkway, Springfield MO 65802.
ALTERNATIVE MATERIALS: A New Arte Povera
Exhibition Dates: April 24, 2022 -May 20, 2022
Opening Reception: Sunday April 24, 2022 1:00-4:00 PM
Location: THE GALLERY SPACE/ RAHWAY 1670 Irving St, Rahway, NJ 07065
International Sculpture Day
Exhibition Date: April 30, 2022 -12-3pm
Location: Sky Garden Gallery 150 Bay Street, PH9, 10th Floor
Join me for an interactive photoshoot with Emotional Baggage Carts parked on the roof of Sky Garden Gallery
Summit Public Art: The Baggage We Carry
Public Art Installation on view through – May 2022
Location: Summit Village Green, 356 Broad Street Summit, NJ
Three Emotional Baggage Carts are on display through May 2022.
Free Your Mind
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.
Microaggressions are subtle, intentional — and oftentimes unintentional — everyday interactions or behaviors that communicate hostile, derogatory or negative messages or assumptions toward historically marginalized groups. The weight of these daily interactions underpins very real consequences… stress, anger, frustration, self-doubt and ultimately feelings of powerlessness and invisibility.
This project intends to expose these interactions and provide a release for the participating individuals. Participants are invited to write a story about a microaggression they have experienced onto a ribbon and tie this ribbon onto a netto 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 the installation space, as visitors move throughout the space, motion sensors trigger monotone computer voice recordings of story ribbons.
In 2021 Free Your Mind toured, collecting story ribbons in Bayonne NJ, Jersey City NJ, Sunsets @ The Standard, Miami Art Week. In 2022 the installation will travel to ExpoChicago April 4-7 Navy Pier and will make stops in Brooklyn and Newark this year.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
Interested individuals, institutions and businesses can support the project by engaging themselves and/or communities to collect story ribbons
SHARE YOUR STORY >>
Share a story about a microaggression you have experienced? How did it make you feel?
PARTICIPATE >> ONLINE HERE
OR MAIL STORY RIBBONS>>
Using a Sharpie, in two sentences (100 words max.) write your story on a ribbon
Mail your story ribbon to…
Project Free Your Mind c/o Sky Garden Gallery, 150 Bay St. PH9 Jersey City NJ 07302
Anonymous story ribbons and the textile artwork containing them will be shared on Instagram and www.thedasandiford.com.
Follow @misstheda and @skygardengallery on Instagram to get updates on this project and see your story in the installation.
Visions & Voices
I have been invited to show three works in The Biggs Museum of American Art’s juried exhibition highlighting the work of regional African American artists of the Mid-Atlantic region.
Visions & Voices
Exhibition Dates: February 4, 2022 – May 21, 2022
Location: The Biggs Museum of American Art, 406 Federal St Dover DE 19901
Porcupine Zip Tie
Boa Quill 
Caribbean Friendship Bracelet
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
Bottle Cap Pearls 
Power Puff with Black Racing Stripes Orange You Glad To See Me 
Mini Baggage Carts
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
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.
Bottle Cap Pearls Power Puff with Black Racing Stripes Orange You Glad To See Me
JCAST RECAP
After months of planning, JCAST feels like it came and went with a blur. Thank you to everyone who stop in my studio to visit and say hello.
Hope you see you again at 14C…
14C Juried Show Mood Board
Garden Renaissance Opens Tonight
Tonight the Bridge Art Gallery will premiere “Garden Renaissance” Art Exhibition at Newark Arts Festival 6:00pm-8:00pm
LOCATION: Cement Gallery; 6 Crawford St.Newark NJ, formerly City Without Walls
This exhibition features the work of many extraordinary artists I admire greatly. Please come and see us.
Read about “Garden Renaissance“
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 7th | 6pm-9pm |
| Friday, October 8th | 12pm-8pm |
| Saturday, October 9th | 12pm-8pm |
| Sunday, October 10th | 12pm-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.