Have a peek at Surface Design Association’s 2023 International Member Exhibition, “Safekeeping” at 108|Contemporary from June 2 through July 23, 2023.
August Exhibitions & Beyond
THIS MONTH
For Venus & Serena Artist Talk
Date: August 6th 2023 at 12:00pm ET
Location: Art Crawl Harlem House 406B Colonels Row, Governors Island NYC
Excellence In Fibers
Exhibition Dates: August 23, 2023 – January 7, 2024.
Location: San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textile; 520 S First St, San Jose, CA
ONGOING
Black Art in the Sun
Exhibition Dates: May 15- August 15
Location: Atrium Gallery; 10 Court Street, Morristown NJ
Each One Teach One: Preserving the Legacy in Perpetuity
Exhibition Dates: March 17 – August 27, 2023
Location: The Morris Museum, 6 Normandy Heights Road Morristown, NJ
For Venus & Serena @ Governors Island
Exhibition Dates: May 5- October 2023
Location: Art Crawl Harlem, 406B Colonels Row, Governors Island, New York NY
Theda Sandiford: Triggered, Truth & Transformation @ The Lab
Exhibition Dates: July 1, 2023- September 17, 2023
Location: The Lab at Krasl Art Center. 707 Lake Blvd, St Joseph, MI
Despite the Spoils
Exhibition Dates: July 19 2023 -October 26, 2024.
Location: Paul Robeson Galleries, 54 Halsey Street, Newark NJ
Upcoming
Newark Arts Festival
Exhibition Dates: September 27- October 1
Location: Newark Museum of Art; 49 Washington St, Newark, NJ
quiet as it’s kept
Exhibition Dates: October 6, November 10, 2023
Location: The Trolley Barn Gallery, 489 Main St. Poughkeepsie, NY
Process and Delight: The New P & D
Exhibition Dates: November 9 – December 2
Location: Equity Gallery, 245 Broome St, New York, NY 10002
Uncontained: Reimagining Basketry
Exhibition Dates: May 19, 2024 – September 2, 2024
Location: Hunterdon Art Museum, 7 Lower Center St, Clinton, NJ
Safekeeping Closing This Week
Surface Design Association’s Safekeeping
Exhibition Dates: June 2- July 23
Textile Talk Virtual Program – June 21, 2023
Location: 108 Contemporary; 108 E Reconciliation Way Tulsa OK
What happens when vintage silk ties and woven onto a metal dress form and adorned with a zip tie blanket tunic… protection from the patriarchy.
I’m the 2023-204 Discover Space Invitational Artist
I am excited to share that I am The Delaware Contemporary’s 2023-24 Discover Space Invitational Artist. Workshop and artist talk schedule to follow
Free Your Mind; will be installed in the Discover Space, The Delaware Contemporary accompanied by seasonal programming to drive audience engagement utilizing multiple modalities to interact with this project. Visitors connect and find meaning through active experience.
Free Your Mind is a collection of personal narratives. Participants are invited to share a personal experience with implicit bias to release this story from their personal narrative. Shared statements are later converted from text to speech and played back in the installation environment. Motion sensors trigger recordings and text projections that intensify as participants move closer toward the blanket of ribbons.
Blackity Black Blanket Installation in Print
I’m tickled pink!
My installation work Blackty Black Blanket will be included in 2023, Surface Design Journal’s Eighth Annual International Exhibition in Print: Lasting Impression selected by Guest Juror Lorna Hamilton-Brown.
Thank you, April Tracy for taking these photos, guest Juror Lorna Hamilton-Brown and Surface Design for the opportunity to share this work.
Art House Is OPEN!
The construction over at Art House’s new home base on Marin Blvd is finally complete. The first official show to show off the finished digs opens this week.
I’ll be showing Chutes & Ladders, which is most fitting, because Andrea McKenna donated the net I used for this piece when Art House was moving out of their last location…
I can’t wait to experience all the art and see all my Jersey City Art folks at the Opening reception. Other participating artists include Tim Daly, Loura van der Meule, Lisa Ficarelli-Halpern, Troy Jones, Mark Kurdziel and Candy Le Sueur.
Congratulations Art House, welcome home!
Exhibition Dates: July 8- July 30th
Opening Reception, Saturday July 8th 5 to 8pm.
Official Ribbon Cutting, Thursday, July 13th at 2pm
Open for Downtown Art Crawl, Thursday July 27th 6-9pm
Location: 345 Marin Boulevard, Jersey City, NJ 07302
July Exhibitions & More
NEW THIS MONTH
Theda Sandiford: Triggered, Truth & Transformation @ The Lab
Exhibition Dates: July 1, 2023- September 17, 2023
Location: The Lab at Krasl Art Center. 707 Lake Blvd, St Joseph, MI
Seamless
Exhibition Dates: July 1- July 30
Location: Art 150 Gallery, 157A First St., Jersey City.
Art House Productions Ribbon Cutting Show
Exhibition Dates: July 8- July 30th
Location: 345 Marin Boulevard, Jersey City, NJ 07302
Despite the Spoils
Exhibition Dates: July 19 2023 -October 26, 2024.
Location: Paul Robeson Galleries, 54 Halsey Street, Newark NJ
For Venus & Serena Artist Talk
Date: August 6th 2023 at 12:00pm ET
Location: Art Crawl Harlem House 406B Colonels Row, Governors Island NYC
ONGOING…
SDA’s Safekeeping
Exhibition Dates: June 2- July 23
Textile Talk Virtual Program – June 21, 2023
Location: 108 Contemporary; 108 E Reconciliation Way Tulsa OK
Each One Teach One: Preserving the Legacy in Perpetuity
Exhibition Dates: March 17 – August 27, 2023
Location: The Morris Museum, 6 Normandy Heights Road Morristown, NJ
Theda Sandiford: Triggered, Truth & Transformation @ Wa Na Wari
Exhibition Dates: April 22, 2023- July 17, 2023
Location: Wa Na Wari, 911 24th Avenue, Seattle WA
For Venus & Serena @ Governors Island
Exhibition Dates: May 5- October 2023
Location: Art Crawl Harlem, 406B Colonels Row, Governors Island, New York NY
Black Art in the Sun
Exhibition Dates: May 15- August 15
Location: Atrium Gallery; 10 Court Street, Morristown NJ
Upcoming shows…
Excellence In Fibers
Exhibition Dates: August 23, 2023 – January 7, 2024.
Location: San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textile; 520 S First St, San Jose, CA
quiet as it’s kept
Exhibition Dates: October 6, November 10, 2023
Location: The Trolley Barn Gallery, 489 Main St. Poughkeepsie, NY
Process and Delight: The New P & D
Exhibition Dates: November 9 – December 2
Location: Equity Gallery, 245 Broome St, New York, NY 10002
Uncontained: Reimagining Basketry
Exhibition Dates: May 19, 2024 – September 2, 2024
Location: Hunterdon Art Museum, 7 Lower Center St, Clinton, NJ
Triggered Truth & Transformation: On Tour
Then show may have closed at Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn NY but it is still showing at Wa Na Wari in Seattle through July and then picks up at the Krasl Art Center in St Joseph MI .
Triggered, Truth & Transformation
Wa Na Wari
Exhibition Dates: Now through July 17, 2023
Location: 911 24th Avenue, Seattle WA
The Lab at Krasl Art Center
Exhibition Dates: July 1, 2023- September 17, 2023
Location: 707 Lake Blvd, St Joseph, MI
Safe Keeping Online Gallery
Held in partnership with 108|Contemporary, Safekeeping, SDA’s 2023 member exhibition, celebrates diverse works that push the evolution of textiles through the use of color, design, process, material, and concept. Juror Anita Fields, selected 42 artworks from more than 375 submissions. From zip ties (thats me!) to native prairie grasses, the exhibition incorporates a stunning range of materials to explore the concept of “safekeeping.” There are 40 artists included in the exhibition representing 26 states across the U.S. as well as three international artists.
See the show Online HERE
If you are in Tulsa OK, the exhibition is on display at 108 Contemporary; 108 E. Reconciliation WayTulsa, OK through July 23, 2023.
I am so grateful to have my bottlecap pony bead braids included in Surface Design Association Spring 2023 online exhibition. Take a look at all the fantastic work included in the show.
Curator Statement
Afterlives, our Spring 2023 Selections Online Exhibition, features artists who consider an artwork’s lifespan before and beyond the moment of creation. Whether material or conceptual, their artistic transformations foreground lived experiences including migration, childhood, disability, and climate anxiety. These artists pull us in close and invite us to connect through shared identities or empathize with those outside our own.
– Destini Ross (she/they), Guest Curator
