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Posted on June 18, 2022June 12, 2022 by Theda Sandiford

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  • 2022 New Jersey Arts Annual: Reemergence. June 18, 2022 – April 30, 2023 New Jersey State Museum, 205 W State St, Trenton, NJ 08608, USA
  • ATA@Novartis February 28, 2023 – March 28, 2023 , One Health Plaza, Building 434 Gallery East Hanover, NJ
  • Each One Teach One: Preserving the Legacy in Perpetuity March 16, 2023 – August 28, 2023 Morris Museum, 6 Normandy Heights Rd, Morristown, NJ 07960, USA
  • Theda Sandiford: Triggered, Truth & Transformation March 25, 2023 – May 28, 2023 Schweinfurth Art Center, 205 Genesee St, Auburn, NY 13021, USA
  • Triggered, Truth & Transformation Opening Reception March 25, 2023 at 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm Schweinfurth Art Center, 205 Genesee St, Auburn, NY 13021, USA Join with Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/mok-owgk-ihb Learn more about Meet at: https://support.google.com/a/users/answer/9282720

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Art Exhibitions

  • 2022 New Jersey Arts Annual: Reemergence. June 18, 2022 – April 30, 2023 New Jersey State Museum, 205 W State St, Trenton, NJ 08608, USA
  • ATA@Novartis February 28, 2023 – March 28, 2023 , One Health Plaza, Building 434 Gallery East Hanover, NJ
  • Each One Teach One: Preserving the Legacy in Perpetuity March 16, 2023 – August 28, 2023 Morris Museum, 6 Normandy Heights Rd, Morristown, NJ 07960, USA
  • Theda Sandiford: Triggered, Truth & Transformation March 25, 2023 – May 28, 2023 Schweinfurth Art Center, 205 Genesee St, Auburn, NY 13021, USA
  • Triggered, Truth & Transformation Opening Reception March 25, 2023 at 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm Schweinfurth Art Center, 205 Genesee St, Auburn, NY 13021, USA Join with Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/mok-owgk-ihb Learn more about Meet at: https://support.google.com/a/users/answer/9282720

Recent Posts

  • Register for Artist Talk Next Week
  • Triggered, Truth & Transformation Solo Show
  • ATA@NOVARTIS Closing Next Week
  • Mutual Admiration: A Talk between me and Cheryl R. Riley
  • Microaggressions Sound Like

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2023 Flashback so far… #artistsoninstagram #arti 2023 Flashback so far… #artistsoninstagram #artistlife #artshow #studiovisit
Last night at the members opening for Each One Tea Last night at the members opening for Each One Teach One at @morrismuseum wearing an original @cherylrriley sculpture necklace in front of “Bottlecap Pearls” on display until the end of August 2023. “Bottlecap Pearls” is made with thousands of recycled bottle caps, strung and knitted on rope in oversized necklaces draped on an antique ladder. This work tracks the passage of time during the first year of the pandemic #sculpture #blackartist #recycledart #upcycledart #beading
I am trilled to join @mafafiber for a Virtual FREE I am trilled to join @mafafiber for a Virtual FREE ONLINE LECTURE✨ and participate at their upcoming biennial conference, MAFA 2023! 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. 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 exposes these interactions to provide a release for the viewer. Participants are invited to write a story about a microaggression they have experienced onto a ribbon and tie this ribbon onto a net to 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 reflected upon. Participants have the feeling of being seen and acknowledged while interacting with the work. In 2021 Free Your Mind toured, collecting story ribbons in Bayonne, NJ, Jersey City, NJ, and at “Sunsets” at The Standard during Miami Art Week. In 2022 Free Your Mind was at Art Crawl Harlem’s Governors Island house from May- August and in Indianapolis. The project will make stops in Brooklyn, Newark and at MAFA in 2023. Learn more @misstheda and thedasandiford.com Single session on Tuesday, March 28, at 7 pm ET ✨FREE✨ Click link in bio for MAFA Virtual, or visit Lessonface.com/MAFA to receive the Zoom link & lifetime access to the video recording. #mafavirtual #fiberarts #fiberartist #fibrearts #fibreartist #fiberart #fibreart #fiberartsofinstagram #fibreartistsofinstagram #fiberart_community #fiberartcommunity #fiberartfamily #mafa2023
Thank you• @rcembalest for this amazing 📸 of Thank you• @rcembalest for this amazing 📸 of me with “Bottlecap Pearls” during the recent show “Dark Matter” @katesferriprojects #upcycledart #foundmaterials #sculpture #abstraction
Thank you• @mocada_museum and Happy Internationa Thank you• @mocada_museum and Happy International Women's day! ✊🏾❤️ 🎨: From Theda $andiford's (@misstheda) "Selfie" series. Link to store in bio to purchase a print
Free Your Mind: Social Justice Public Art Installa Free Your Mind: Social Justice Public Art Installation “Free Your Mind” is a cascade of story ribbons tied to recovered fishing nets draped upon the wall like a blanket. Visitors are invited to share written statements about experienced microaggression on a “story” ribbon to release this story from their personal narrative. The literal essence and yarn of each participant becomes the social fabric of the protective blanket. Artist Talk March 28 at 7pm ET. Link on bio to register for free  #socialpracticeart #fiberartist #textileartist #publicart #socialjusticeart #socialjustice #implicitbias #microagressions #socialpractice #freeyourmind
Fabric Rope Making Workshop Friday, March 3rd, 6pm Fabric Rope Making Workshop Friday, March 3rd, 6pm-8pm Learn to use old textiles or scrap fabric and turn it into rope. The process is easy, slightly addictive, and most definitely meditative. Join me in making rope for an installation at Governors Island Summer 2023 about hair. Materials provided. location Art 150; Studio #231 150 Bay Street, Enter at First Street and Provost Steet. #jcfriday #fiberart #fiberartist #socialpracticeart #jerseycityartist
“A Conversation Among Peers” Led by Jamel Ro “A Conversation Among Peers” Led by Jamel Robinson, Theda Sandiford, Rudy Shepherd, Jairo Sosa, Roscoè B. Thické II and Natalie Kates-Ferri RSVP: hello@artnoir.co @artnoirco @katesferriprojects Exhibiting Artists @kevinclaiborne @turiyaaaaaaaa @nnoromsamuel @iamjamelrobinson @misstheda @rudyshepherd @jairo_sosa_ @roscoebthicke #kfp_darkmatter #darkmatter #lesgallery #artistofcolor #emergingartists #katesferriprojects #artnoir
Bopping all around Los Angeles Living My Best Life Bopping all around Los Angeles Living My Best Life during #grammyweek This is me in #DefJam mode celebrating the extraordinary @munilong #worklife
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