The Antenna Grant for Women in the Arts offers financial support and mentorship for young women of color pursuing an education, training, and/or career in the visual arts (sculpture, 2-dimensional work, drawing, painting, textiles, film, installations, murals, etc).
Awards are based on artistic merit, evidence of commitment to a career in the arts, and financial need.
Applications for the Antenna Grant for Women in the Arts will be accepted until March 24.
LOCATION: Drawing Rooms: Topps Building; 26 Newark Ave #T107, Jersey City, New Jersey 07306
Artists were asked to create works that relate to new beginnings, new adventure, new body of work, outer space, atmosphere, place, transportation, land, nature, or utopia. Hundreds of works are on sale during the course of the show, 5/3/19 – 5/11/19, for $200 each.
I made a series of collages from my airplane ticket stubs and a lino print i carved in flight from LA to Newark.
OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, May 4 from 7:00 – 9:00 pm.
LOCATION: Studio Montclair Gallery located at 127 Bloomfield Avenue in Montclair, NJ.
This exhibit will be on display from May 2 to June 15, 2019.
Wonder Woman Selfie’ is a collage for the ages. Colorful, warm and strong – it reflects the best of what a person can see in themselves.
48″x36″x2″ Mixed Media 2017 I LOVE Wonder Woman. I grew up watching the Linda Carter’s Wonder Woman and wanted to be a bad ass too. After seeing Patty Jenkins’s Wonder Woman in Theaters, I knew I had to pattern my next Super Selfie after Wonder Woman ‘
No Boundaries Benefit
BENEFIT: Saturday, May 4th, 2019 8:00-11:00pm
LOCATION: The Woodland; 60 Woodland Road Maplewood, NJ
LOCATION‘: Community Gallery at ValleyArts: 400 S. Jefferson St., Orange, NJ
Mark your calendar for the Artist Talk and Closing Celebration on June 8, 3-5pm to see this piece and learn more about my Wonder Women series.
“Most performers take themselves too seriously. They forget there is a difference between the characters they play on the screen or stage and themselves, but the public doesn’t forget there is a difference. They see how silly it is if you try to be the same person all the time.”
For a perfect side-eye you have to keep your head steady and straight ahead and do it all with your eyes.
Side Eye
Limited Edition (3/5) Aluminum Print
24 x 20 x 1 in
2015
World Collage Day Pop Up Exhibition
Pop Up Collage Show : Saturday May 11, 2019, 1:00-5:00pm
LOCATION: Garden Level Gallery: 315 3rd Street, Jersey City NJ
Celebrate World Collage Day with me, as we honor our local community of artists and the art of collage!
Get inspiration from our World Collage Day Pop Up Exhibition and then spend an afternoon making artwork with the participating artists. #worldcollageday
Participating Artists: Luis Alves Collage: Luis Alves’s photo collages utilizes appropriated imagery from magazines, to incite dialogue on the role the media plays in the shaping of our lives. Each collage is hand-manipulated with the goal of transformation as a way of commenting on, satirizing or criticizing the source material.
Theda Sandiford: Theda Sandiford: Using internal conflict and diverse recycled materials as a starting point she constructs a mixed media mask to protect herself from fear. What may start off as an ugly statement about herself, is in the end transformed into something beautiful. Theda photographs her process and then digitally manipulate these images to extend the narrative.
Leslie Sheryll: Leslie Sheryll’s photo based collages start with appropriated 19th century tintypes which she scans and digitally manipulates. Sheryll then incorporate historical facts, imagery, personal experience and an infusion of fantasy to create a new narrative about women
BradTerhune: Brad Terhune is forever seeking out new materials to work with leads to changes in style and subject. Terhune looks to create a weird, surreal world, and have been influenced by early twentieth century art movements that embraced and explored collage, while continuing to explore this vibrant medium in the contemporary arena.
Let’s show the world what it looks like when people come together as a community. #worldcollageday
Bring paper, magazines, found materials and your preferred substrate. I have paint, scissors and various glues… $5 suggested donation to cover material costs.
Welcome to Fight Club
Digital Print On Metallic Photo Paper
20 x 20 in
Framed Size: 22 x 22 x 1 in
2017
Being a black woman in corporate America is like Fight Club. I must mold my personality to be palatable as a peach and keep my opinions to myself.
The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club.
The second rule of Fight Club is: you DO NOT talk about Fight Club!
Third rule of Fight Club: if someone yells “stop!â€, goes limp, or taps out, your career is over.
2019 Cathedral Arts Festival
CHAMPAGNE GALA: Saturday, May 18, 2019, 7:00pm.
LOCATION: Grace Church Van Vorst, 39 Erie St, Jersey City NJ
Exhibition on view through June 7th,
I’m always down for a champagne gala. Join me. Tickets may be purchased for $50 by cash or check at drop-off or online at www.cathedralartslive.org.Tickets will cost $60 at the door.
I made these abstract figurative self portraits over the course of 5 weekends using the fine print from my MS infusion drug, Tysbari, paper scraps and mono-printed deli paper. Take a close look at the fine print to see the multitude of symptoms i’m dealing with this hidden illness. Each drawing is representative of a MS treatment, I get infusions every 6 weeks to suppress my immune system and slow the progression of the disease.
Hidden Figure #11, Acrylic paint, Sharpie, colored pencils, pastels, Distress Stain, mica spray, Tysabri newsprint, hand printed deli paper, construction paper, recycled Tazo tea box, tulle, glitter stars, glitter glue and rhinestones on Canson paper. 2018
Hidden Figure #7, 12″x9″, Mixed Media; Acrylic paint, Sharpie, colored pencils, pastels, Distress Stain, mica spray, Tysabri newsprint, hand printed deli paper, construction paper, recycled Tazo tea box, tulle, glitter stars, glitter glue and rhinestones on Canson paper. 2018
My status as “other†does not always grant the luxury to say what is truly there for me, to correct a slight or present an alternative point of view. I have to be vigilantly self aware, and know the right time to speak up or how to frame my words so that they can be received in the best possible light. Sharing my uncensored opinion can quickly get me labeled as being “too big in a room†or worse an “Angry Black Womanâ€. When that happens, full stop. My opinion is dismissed outright. Somewhere along the way, I’ve even stopped correcting people who mispronounce my name. It’s Thee-duh if you are interested.
11″x14″ print in frame, 20″x16″ total size.
“Neon Auto Tune”
Theda Sandiford
Digital Collage on Metallic Photo Paper, AP
14″x11″m 20″x16″ framed
“Of Thee I Sing”
Theda Sandiford
Digital Collage on Metallic Photo Paper, AP
14″x11″m 20″x16″ framed
“B Rhapsody”
Theda Sandiford
Digital Collage on Metallic Photo Paper, AP
14″x11″m 20″x16″ framed
“Alto”
Theda Sandiford
Digital Collage on Metallic Photo Paper, AP
14″x11″m 20″x16″ framed
Out of nine hundred entries from over three hundred artists from across the United States, Canada, Italy, France, Japan, Korea and Singapore, Side Eye won one of 40 spots in 2018 International Juried Exhibition curated by Dr. Midori Yoshimoto at The Center for Contemporary Art this November.
The exhibition dates are November 8th-December 22nd. Please join me for the opening reception.
OPENING RECEPTION: November 8th, 6:00-8:00PM
LOCATION:Â The Center for Contemporary Art;Â Â 2020 Burnt Mills Rd, Bedminster Township, NJ 07921
For a perfect side-eye you have to keep your head steady and straight ahead and do it all with your eyes. Side Eye 24 x 20 x 1 in Aluminum Print Subject Matter: Identity 2015
I’m all about my I Can’t Even, mixed media series right now. I often encounter petty people who are jealous of me and my many passions. I have even been asked to “dim my light” and be conscious of being “Too Big In A Room” so as not to offend less dynamic people in meetings. I can’t help who I am, but to fit in, I must try, except in my art studio where I am free to be me.
This is what happens when Thievery Corporation poster boards, newspaper, pages torn from Children of Dune, handmade Thai and Japanese paper, We Shall Overcome sheet music, tissue paper and acrylic skins… are found stashed away in my studio while embroiled in a Spring cleaning binge as a means of escape from the petty people I can’t avoid in my life.
Each of the five mixed media canvases are 20″ x 16″ x 1″. Three are currently showing at Open Orange Community Gallery in Orange NJ through June 10th. DM me if you are interested.
Big In A Room
“Future Past”20″ x 16″ x 1” Medium: Acrylic paint, acrylic skin, tissue paper, thai paper, sheet music, posterboard, xerox copies, glitter, silk flower, bead. One of five canvases in response to being asked to “Dim your light” so less dynamic people are not threatened” by me. This is my Mona Lisa smile white girl mask.
ArtBender 2017 is planned for May 6-7, with the silent auction the following Friday the 12th.
The Fundraising goal is this year is $15,000
You can sign up to host, participate, or make a donation at www.artbender.org. When you sign up, you will be offered the opportunity to create a personal page you can share with friends to raise pledges and highlight your efforts.
I plan make art at the flagship gallery space, Arts Unbound in Orange NJ. Mark your calendar so you can stop in and say hello on Saturday, May 6th.
