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.
I am getting ready for the JC Friday Art Supply Swap. And to be honest I’m struggling with my hoarder tendencies while attempting to Marie Kondo my stash.
How are you doing collecting art supplies to swap? If there is something you are specifically looking for, drop a comment,
And come to Sky Garden Gallery’s Art Supply Swap with your items and trade, them for something else.
March 4, 2022, 5pm – 8pm Location: Art 150 studio #321 @ 150 Bay Street, Jersey City. Entrance at Provost and First Street.
Do you have leftover 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?
We’re on the lookout for art supplies that can be used by someone else. Marie Condo your art supplies and make room for more joy in your life.
Photo by Khaled Elbanna
Here is how it’s going down:
Start rummaging in your closet and pulling out supplies you want to get rid of.
Come to Sky Garden Gallery’s Art Supply Swap March 4, 2022, 5pm – 8pm 150 Bay Street, Jersey City, NJ PH9, 10th floor
with your items and trade, them for something else.
DM your Questions to @SkyGardenGallery or @MissTheda on Instagram
Feel free to contact me about specific items I am currently sourcing such as colored T shirts, sheets, fabric, rope, beads….
On Friday, December 4 from 6:58-7:10pm I am hosting a Virtual Holiday Card Making Party.
A handmade holiday card is a magical way to show someone you care about them.
Spread your craft supplies out on a table. We are going to make holiday cards together on Zoom. I will provide instruction and take your questions during this live demonstration.
Suggested Supply List:
Plain paper or blank card and envelopes
Markers, crayons, paint pens and other decorating supplies
Wrapping paper, tissue paper, old holiday cards, photographs, newspaper and magazine cuttings.
If I’ve learned anything during this time of uncertainty, things happen when they happen. And for a reason… If I just allow, there is less stress and anxiety in the not knowing of things.
… for real.
If you want to social distance watch a sunset with me from Sky Garden’s roof deck in Jersey City, please let me know. Open sky and air… and this view…
On June 5, 2020, McCarty and I participated in @ Virtual Access JC Fridays to show fibre works from I Am My Hair while I demonstrated the Larks Head Knot .
Watch our segment.
Or to experience the self guided I Am My Hair Workshop slide show please visit this – link
JC Fridays is a seasonal arts festival in Jersey City, New Jersey presented by Art House Productions.
It has taken me a moment to adjust to the new normal of being stuck in the apartment 24/7, worrying about my elderly parents, a non stop parade of 10-6p video ZOOM calls for work and figuring out how to get comfortable with not know when this will all end.
I thrive on making artwork in community and I can’t do that right now. Its been an adjustment being solo in the studio again. It is not the same for me
With all galleries and museums temporarily shuttered, several of my shows have either been postponed or are now virtual. And who knows when I will receive back art from arts institutions that are currently shutdown. My Now Friends Residency in Nairobi Kenya scheduled for July is now up in the air too. There is so much uncertainty right now.
Here is what I do know..
Annual Art Supply Swap Postponed
We shifted Sky Garden Gallery’s annual Spring Art Supply Swap to September 5, 2020. And will close Oshun after we shoot a virtual tour of the show this week. Thi
Wonder Women @ Bridge Art Gallery
Wonder Women was installed at Bridge Art Gallery days before NJ shut down all non-essential businesses. You can visit via the virtual tour below. Contact Bridge Art Gallery if you are interested in seeing any of these works in person, a private viewing may be possible.
You will have to wait to see Caribbean Friendship Bracelet in person at ViewPoints 2020. The exhibition has been pushed from May to October of this year.
Exhibit Dates: 10/28 – 11/27
Opening reception: Friday, October 30
Caribbean Friendship Bracelet, Mixed media fibre, cotton rope, yarn, chenille and recycled sari silk, 77 x 10 x 11 in, 2019
