Conceptual Materials Social Practice Artist
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
Date: JC Friday, March 3rd, 6:00-8:00pm
Location: Art 150, Studio #231, 150 Bay Street, Enter at Provost and 1st Street and ride the elevator to the second floor.
The 32nd Annual Jersey City Art and Studio Tour, will be held Sept 29 – Oct 2 and feature over 1000 artists in 140 locations across Jersey City.
Build a calendar of art outings here on www.thejcast.com
AND make a plan to catch up with me and see my art at a couple venues within walking distance from one another downtown Jersey City.
Bridge Art Gallery presents the Garden Renaissance @ Nimbus Arts Center. 329 Warren Street, Jersey City
Timeless @ Art House Gallery. 180 Morgan Street (corner of Marin Blvd and Bay St)
Emotional Baggage Cart Installation @ Art 150, studio #231 and common area. 150 Bay Street. Enter at Provost and First Street and ride the elevator to the 2nd floor.
Friday 9/30 – Art150’s Opening reception 5-9pm, visit me in Studio#231. 150 Bay Street, Jersey City. Enter at Provost and First Street and ride the elevator to the 2nd floor.
On Saturday and Sunday come have fun and make art with me.
Drawing inspiration from various beading traditions, we will mix different bottle caps to make a string of colorful oversized beaded necklaces. Your creation will become a part of an upcoming installation celebrating personal adornment.
Saturday 10/1 – Clutch My Pearls 1-6pm, Nimbus Arts Center. 329 Warren Street, Jersey City
Sunday 10/2– Clutch My Pearls 1-6pm, Nimbus Arts Center. 329 Warren Street, Jersey City
Do you have left over materials from an art project? Have WAY too much Cadmium White when you need Pastels? Do you have skeins of yarn you are not using? Or supplies from an art practice you no longer use?
Come with your items and trade them for something else.
March 4, 2022, 5pm – 8pm
Location: Theda Sandiford Art Studio #231, 150 Bay Street, 2nd Floor Jersey City.
Enter at 1st Street and Provost Street and ride the elevator to the 2nd floor.
Around the corner from my studio in the main gallery, the Art 150 Member show of Signature pieces will be up for its final weekend.
Visit Art 150, come see me, the show, swap some supplies and walk around to see what studios are open.
Enter at 1st Street and Provost Street, downtown Jersey City. Ride the elevator to the 2nd floor.
Please plan to spend some of your JCAST with me. Im looking forward to seeing you.
Friday, October 1st 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Saturday, October 2nd, 12:00 PM – 6:00 AM
Sunday, October 3rd 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM
We all carry emotional baggage. This manifests differently for each of us. Some of us carry shopping carts of pain and bitterness while some of us sport a wee tote bag. How we choose to handle our baggage makes a difference. We have the choice, to let it define us or to let it go and move forward.
My Emotional Baggage Carts are vessels for racial trauma. My baggage carts serve to separate myself from these experiences. Each recovered shopping cart is woven with recycled rope, bottle caps, twine, paracord, fabric, LED lights, pony beads and zip tie blankets.
There is opportunity to shift structural language when a person is invited to play with unexpected materials without any expectations. Join me to discover what materials are used to create these sculptures, and look within, to recognize and release the emotional baggage you, yourself are carrying. Audience participation is encouraged
Throughout the weekend, you are invited to make strings of beads of recycled bottle caps in the 2nd floor common area of Art 150 and visit with me in my studio #231. Come play with me.
I will have a selection of prints, tote bags and mini baggage carts for sale.
NOTE: Theda Sandiford’s Art 150 Studio #231 on the second floor of 150 Bay 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.
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.
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.”
September 10, 2021 6:00pm – 9:00pm
On Location: Art 150; 150 Bay Street, 2nd floor Jersey City NJ
Of Friday, September 10, I’m hosting my first open studio session in 18 months. Audience participation encouraged. Wrap and hitch knot yarn onto rope to become a part of a hair installation and find a common denominator amongst us all, HAIR.
Exhibit On View: September 10, 2021 – October 15, 2021.
In-Person Opening Reception: Sunday, September 12, 11:00am-5:00pm
On Location: Studio Montclair Gallery. 127 Bloomfield Ave, Montclair NJ
Exhibit On View: September 12, 2021 – October 17, 2021.
In-Person Opening Reception:: Sunday, September 12, 12:00pm-6:00pm
On Location: 481 Van Brunt St Brooklyn, NY 11231
Exhibit On View: September 12, 2021 – October 17, 2021.
In-Person Opening Reception: Sunday, September 12, 12-6
On Location: 481 Van Brunt St Brooklyn, NY 11231
Exhibit On View: June 4, 2021 – October 24, 2021
On Location: Morris Museum, 6 Normandy Heights Rd, Morristown, NJ