Upcoming Yarn Wrapping: I Am My Hair Workshop Dates

Saturday, February 8th 12:00-3:00pm at Sky Garden Gallery; 150 Bay Street, PH9, Jersey City NJ RSVP Free admission, no experience necessary

Friday, February 21st 5:00-7:00pm at 14C Art Fair, Room 843 Hyatt Regency Jersey City On The Hudson; 2 Exchange Pl, Jersey City, NJ  TICKETS

Saturday, February 22nd 1:00-3:00pm at 14C Art Fair, Room 843 Hyatt Regency Jersey City On The Hudson; 2 Exchange Pl, Jersey City, NJ TICKETS

Sunday, February 23rd 1:00-3:00pm at 14C Art Fair, Room 843 Hyatt Regency Jersey City On The Hudson; 2 Exchange Pl, Jersey City, NJ TICKETS

Saturday, March 7th 1:00-4:00pm at Sky Garden Gallery; 150 Bay Street, PH9, Jersey City NJ RSVP Free admission, no experience necessary

Saturday, May 30th 1:00-3:00pm at BSB Gallery,143 E State St, Trenton, NJ. RSVP Free admission, no experience necessary

I Am My Hair Community Art Project

Please come participate in my ongoing community art project, I Am My Hair…

The next yarn wrapping session is Saturday, Feb. 8th 12:00pm – 3:00pm at 150 Bay Street, PH9. Jersey City, NJ


A videographer will be on hand to document our work. So come cute and camera ready. lol


Please RSVP on the FB Event if you can make it.

Let me know if you have any food allergies so I can prepare appropriately for you.

Extra Credit… Save the Date for March’s yarn wrapping session at my studio… March 7, 12:00pm – 3:00pm

Unboxing My Artist Boots

Add My Art Boot To Your Wardrobe

You can own your own pair of Theda Artist Collection Boots while supplies last… The original art was made in response to being asked to “Dim my Light” so that “less dynamic people” would not be threatened by me. Reimagined as a boot, this work of art is now a potent reminder to Always Be You, No Matter What.

BUY NOW

-13″ tall boot
-J toe
-1 1/2″ stacked leather heel
-full leather sole
-Canvas on Leather top replicating Theda Sandifords are Piece
-Embroidery on foot on heel to compliment image.
-handcrafted in Mexico by Planet Cowboy
*Limited size run available

Please call for more information 646 559 4779 or contact@spacecowboyboots.com or buy now.

JC Friday @ Sky Garden Gallery

JCFriday Holiday Trunk Show

Friday, December 6, 2019 at 7 PM – 10 PM

LOCATION: Sky Garden Gallery 150 Bay Street, PH9, Jersey City NJ

Get a little something for yourself and the people on your gift list. Come sip and shop with us.

Jewelry, Small Prints and Culinary Arts from artisans: Andrea Morin, Javiera Rodriquez, Nadine Nelson, Leslie Sheryl and Theda Sandiford.

On Display: Figurative works from Theda & Mike’s personal art collection plus A Perfect Spread featuring small bites and champagne cocktail.

Holiday Card Making with Theda Sandiford

Saturday, December 7th, 2019 at 1 PM – 4 PM

LOCATION: Sky Garden Gallery 150 Bay Street, PH9, Jersey City NJ

Join me for a handmade holiday card making workshop using upcycled materials, stamps, stencils and notions from my studio stash.

$25 per person. Art supplies for 5 cards provided. Snacks provided

Get your TICKETS HERE

Sky Garden Gallery

We are moving on up…

Garden Level Gallery has moved to 150 Bay Street, PH9 Jersey City, NJ and has a new name…

Introducing Sky Garden Gallery

Artful living at the intersection of visual and culinary arts: Sky Garden Gallery curates visual art exhibitions and a Salon Series. For the lifestyle enthusiast we offer exclusive dinners, wine & spirits tastings within the walls of the gallery and garden. We bring color to your life.

Join Us

Visit our new website http://www.skygardengallery.com

Follow our Instagram profile https://www.instagram.com/skygardengallery/

Like our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/GardenLevelGallery/

Spring Exhibitions

Grand Opening: Somewhere We Landed

Opening Reception: Friday May 3th, 7:30-9:00pm

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.

Gallery Hours:
5/5/19 Sunday, 1-6p
5/9/19 Thurs & 5/10/19 Fri, 5-8p
5/11/19 Saturday, 12-6p

Exhibit runs through 5/11/19.

View Points 2019

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

You can bid on the piece I made for this show. … herehttps://www.accelevents.com/e/NoBoundariesBenefit/A/TSA

Open Orange 2019

Opening Reception: May 9th, 6:000-9:00pm

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.”

Grace Jones
“Grace Jones is my Muse” 36″x24″x2″ Mixed Media; Acrylic paint, Xerox image transfers, stencil printed deli, paper, paper punched recycled envelops, tissue paper, buttons, glitter appliqués, glitter, embroidered collar on canvas, 2018

Portraits and Narratives- Artist Talk

SAVE THE DATE: Friday May 10, 2019, 7:00-9:00pm

LOCATION: Akwaaba Gallery, 509 S Orange Ave, Newark, NJ

Come Meet and speak to me and artists Kortez and Jimmy James Greene about our work in the “Portraits and Narratives” Exhibition.

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!”, 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.

Digital Big Mouths- New Metallic Photo Prints

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 Woman”. 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.

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