Theda Sandiford: Emotional Baggage Carts

Hello!

On April 30th, 2022, the world unites in celebration of sculpture during the 8th annual International Sculpture Day!

Sky Garden Gallery invites you to play with Theda Sandiford’s Emotional Baggage Carts. Interact with the cart and leave behind any emotional baggage you are carrying.

 

Power Puff with Black Racing Stripes

Power Puff, Black Racing Stripe Baggage Cart

  • Theda Sandiford
  • Bike reflectors, paracord, Fresh Direct bag yarn, doggie poop bags, plastic newspaper bags and plastic grocery bags woven on gold spray painted recovered shopping cart.
  •  36 x 40 x 24 in
  • 2021

Joy is a form of resistance.

We all carry emotional baggage Naturally; these manifests differently for each of us. Some of us push shopping carts of pain and bitterness while some of us just have a backpack.
I carry a lifetime of racial trauma.

Being alive means having the capacity to carry past experiences and learn from them. But there’s a point when this baggage becomes too much. Carrying too much emotional baggage can literally stop us from being open to new experiences, intimacy and growth.

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.

Keep up with me on IG @MissTheda

#emotionalbaggagecarts #ThedaSandiford

The Great Resignation: Baggage Cart

  • Theda Sandiford
  • Vintage silk ties and leather belts, paracord, black zip ties & ribbon, LED strip lights, mesh on recycled commercial fishing net and gold spray paint on recovered shopping cart
  • 42 x 25 x 46 in
  • 2022

International Sculpture Day @ Sky Garden Gallery – CANCELLED

I am so sorry to have to cancel the opening of our rooftop garden to visitors today. The plants are planted but with this slow to start Spring the plants are not splendiferous yet.

I also have an opening in New Canaan CT, and I’m trying to swing by Art House Productions’ Snowball gala tonight.

I promise to open the garden and emotional baggage cart display for frolicing later this Summer when the lavender is blooming.

International Sculpture Day is being celebrated on Governors Island today. My emotional baggage cart “Donda Donda Deluxe” in honor of Kanye West’s relationship with his Mother Dr. Donda West is on display all Summer at Art Crawl Harlem’s house 406b. Stop in and take a photo.

April Exhibitions & Installations

Craft Nouveau!

Exhibition Dates: April 1 2022- May 28th, 2022
Opening Reception: April 16, 2022, 4:00 – 8:00pm
Closing Reception: May 21, 2022, 4:00 – 8:00pm

Location: Blue Lines Arts: 405 Vernon Street Suite 100, Roseville, CA 95678

Emotional Baggage Cart Installation @ Expo Chicago

The International Exposition of Contemporary & Modern Art

Exhibition Dates:  April 7 2022 – April 10  2022

Location: Navy Pier Chicago, Booth #377

Mixed Media

Exhibition Dates: April 22, 2022 –May 22, 2022

Location: Site:Brooklyn Gallery Online Gallery

Theda Sandiford’s: Joyful Resistance

Exhibition Dates: April 22 2022 – June 4, 2022

Location:The Center for Contemporary Art; 2020 Burnt Mills Rd, Bedminster, NJ 07921

Sculpture Walk Springfield 2022-2023

Exhibition Dates: April 23,2022- May 21, 2023

Location: 411 N. Sherman Parkway, Springfield MO 65802.

International Sculpture Day

Join Sky Garden Gallery for a fun interactive rooftop photoshoot with Theda Sandiford’s Emotional Baggage Carts. Come play and have your picture taken.

Saturday April, 30 2022 from 12:00- 3:00pm

Location: 150 Bay Street, PH9, Jersey City, 10th floor

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Visions & Voices

Exhibition Dates: February 4, 2022 – May 21, 2022

Location: The Biggs Museum of American Art, 406 Federal St Dover DE 19901

NJSCA Fellowship Exhibition

Exhibition Dates: March 22, 2022 – May 21, 2022

Location: Artworks, 19 Everett Alley, Trenton, NJ 08611, USA

Free Your Mind Public Art Installation @ Governors Island 2022

Exhibition Dates: May- September 2022

Location: Governors Island, 406b Colonels Row

International Sculpture Day @ Sky Garden Gallery

Im sorry but I have to cancel opening the rooftop Garden. The plants are planted but they are not ready yet.

Plus I have an opening in CT, I need to get to today.

On April 30th, 2022, the world will unite in celebration of sculpture during the 8th annual International Sculpture Day!

Join Sky Garden Gallery for a fun interactive rooftop photoshoot with Theda Sandiford’s Emotional Baggage Carts.

Come play and have your picture taken.

Location: 150 Bay Street, PH9, 10th floor

Saturday, April 30 from 12:00- 3:00pm

March Exhibitions

Visions & Voices; Juried Show

Exhibition Dates: February 4, 2022 – May 21, 2022

Location: The Biggs Museum of American Art, 406 Federal St Dover DE 19901

Please Vote for me in the Public Art Award

Exquisite Corpse 2022 

Exhibition Dates: March 1, 2022 – March 31, 2022

Location: Nimbus Arts Center: 329 Warren St, Jersey City, NJ

2022 JC Friday: Art Supply Swap  

Date: Friday Mar 4, 2022 from 5:00-8:00pm

Location: Art 150 Studio #231, 150 Bay Street, enter at 1st Street and Provost St and ride the elevator up to 2nd floor.

Bring a bag of art supplies and swap it for something else.

NJSCA Fellowship Exhibition

Exhibition Dates March 22 – May 21, 2022

Opening Reception: March 26, 2022 / 6-8pm

Location: Artworks Trenton; 19 Everett Alley, Trenton, NJ 

Craft Nouveau!

Exhibition Dates: April 1, 2022 – May 28th, 2022
Opening Reception: April 16, 2022 4-8pm
Closing Reception: May 21, 2022 4-8pm

Location: Blue Lines Art; 405 Vernon Street Suite 100, Roseville, CA 95678

Emotional Baggage Carts @ Expo Chicago

The International Exposition of Contemporary & Modern Art

Exhibition Dates: APRIL 7-10  2022

Location: Navy Pier Chicago, Booth 377

Theda Sandiford: Joyful Resistance

Exhibition Dates April 22, 2022 – June 4th, 2022

Location: The Center for Contemporary Art; 2020 Burnt Mills Road, Bedminster NJ

Sculpture Walk Springfield 2022-2023

Exhibition Dates: April 23,2022- May 21, 2023

Location: 411 N. Sherman Parkway, Springfield MO 65802.

ALTERNATIVE MATERIALS: A New Arte Povera

Exhibition Dates: April 24, 2022 -May 20, 2022  

Opening Reception: Sunday April 24, 2022   1:00-4:00 PM

Location: THE GALLERY SPACE/ RAHWAY 1670 Irving St, Rahway, NJ 07065

Caution Baggage Cart

International Sculpture Day

Exhibition Date: April 30, 2022 -12-3pm

Location: Sky Garden Gallery 150 Bay Street, PH9, 10th Floor

Join me for an interactive photoshoot with Emotional Baggage Carts parked on the roof of Sky Garden Gallery

Summit Public Art: The Baggage We Carry

Public Art Installation on view through – May 2022

Location: Summit Village Green, 356 Broad Street Summit, NJ 

Three Emotional Baggage Carts are on display through May 2022.