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Fall 2025: A Season of JOY and Reflection

This fall, my work is on view across Newark NJ, White Plains NY, and San Diego CA, each exhibition exploring resilience, transformation, and the power of joy.

At the Newark Museum of Art, Classic LBD and Boa Quill appear in Newark Arts Festival: JOY (Oct 8 – Nov 2) reimagining the “little black dress” as armor against microaggressions. Nearby at Express Newark, Power Puff with Black Racing Stripe turns bad news into joyful resistance in Pure Joy (Oct 8 – Nov 26).

My work also joins Meltdown: A Changing Climate at ArtsWestchester (Oct 12 – Jan 11, 2026, a collective reflection on ecological and emotional endurance and Interpretations 2025 at Visions Museum of Textile Art in San Diego (Oct 17 – Jan 10, 2026), celebrating the expressive language of fiber.

From Newark’s vibrant energy to the quiet tides of St. Croix, this season is about finding JOY in resistance, beauty in change, and meaning in every thread.

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Meltdown: A Changing Climate

Curated by Patricia Miranda and supported by ArtsWestchester, this exhibition brings together artists including Rachel Olivia Berg, Zaria Forman, Jaanika Peerna, Sarah Cameron Sunde, myself, and many more to confront the urgent realities of climate change.

The show reflects on the Hudson Valley’s vulnerabilities to rising waters and the shifting symbolism of ice, once a resource, now a fragile warning of what we stand to lose.

My piece, Polyurethane Paradise: Rainforest Rhapsody, transforms single-use bottle caps into woven vines and blossoms inspired by the lush vegetation on my rainforest property. The work reimagines waste as beauty while holding space for the tension between human consumption and the natural world’s resilience.

Artists have always been catalysts for awareness. Meltdown invites us to bear witness, reflect, and act.

Meltdown: A Changing Climate

Opening Reception: Saturday, October 11, 2025, 4-6PM

Exhibition Dates: October 12, 2025- January 11, 2026

Location: ArtsWestchester, 31 Mamaroneck Ave, White Plains, NY

Theda Sandiford Polyurethane Paradise: Rainforest Rhapsody Woven bottlecaps vines on blue and white polyurethane rope and paracord draped on rolling Z rack 79 x 12 x 72 in 2023