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.
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.
JC Friday: I Am My Hair
- September 10, 2021 6:00pm – 9:00pm
On Location: Art 150; 150 Bay Street, Jersey City NJ, Studio #231
Of Friday, September 10, I’m hosting my first open studio session in 18 months.
Audience participation is encouraged. Come wrap and hitch knot yarn onto rope to become a part of a hair installation and find a common denominator amongst us all, HAIR.
We are also making strings of beads made with recycled bottle caps in the 2nd floor common area of Art 150.
NOTE: 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.
Recycle 2021
Exhibit On View: September 12 – October 17, 2021.
In-Person Opening Reception: Sunday, September 12, 2021, 12:00pm-6:00pm
On Location: 481 Van Brunt St Brooklyn, NY 11231
I started calling this cart Wide Load before I was even conscious of how much of my emotional baggage is tied to the food I eat.
Don’t even think of visiting my Mom without her feeding you. I can still smell , vivid memories of being punishing for not eating my food and being reminded of the starving children in Africa. A double whammy of eat and feel guilty about eating. I could go on and on…
Threads That Bind: When The Fabric of Social Culture Unravels
Exhibit On View: September 12 – October 17, 2021.
In-Person Opening Reception: Sunday, September 12, 12:00-6:00pm
On Location: 481 Van Brunt St Brooklyn, NY 11231
I’ll be at the opening on Sunday, please come and art stroll with me.
With ziptie blanket 
Death By 10,000 Papercuts
FIF 2021: Future Is Female
On View: September 1, 2021 – September 30th, 2021
On Location: 175 Pearl St, 5th Fl Brooklyn NY
The 3rd annual Future is Female exhibit, curated by sk.Artspace, aims to shed light on black women visual artists who persevered and became activists through their personal choices. The exhibition will highlight women, like me who unapologetically live their lives through action, women who had no intention of being a person of influence, yet raised the bar to lead, even when no one was looking – the “Unsung Shereos.”
I have three emotional baggage carts in the show, including my very first, Caution Baggage Cart.
While working on my first shopping cart “Caution Baggage Cart” I was thinking about the people I had lost to Covid and the inability to properly mourn socially distant. I realized I was carrying a lot of emotional baggage related to fear of loss.
The cart needed some wheel repair and rust removal. Once sanded down, I spray painted the cart with gold and bronze paint left over from a previous project. The luscious gold wefts called to Caution tape that I had just foraged from the construction site across the street. I found just the right mix of fabric, paracord and yarns to complete the weave in my remnant stash.
Revision & Respond: Inside Look
Revision & Respond at The Newark Museum of Art will be closing soon. For an Inside Look of the show , take a peek at my artist talk.