Meet Tyasha/Ty

I’m a transdisciplinary artist, archivist, and educator making collective liberation real by any means necessary.
My practice is liberation art: using what’s on hand to build a free world. I make the vulnerable durable by transforming oral histories, community-led research, and radical ephemera into archives of the human experience that bridge the past, present and future.
Working primarily with word and paper through handcrafted artifacts, poetry, and zines, I explore the power dynamics and grassroots social movements of Black, Puerto Rican, and mixed-marginalized communities. My visual work uses scanography, where I physically move archival artifacts during scanning to create subversive collages. I write zines to distribute research findings on collective grief, power, and community care. I pair these works with protest guerrilla installations to form pop-up spaces that function as active mutual aid hubs. My work moves beyond reimagining the world to creating the tools needed to sustain liberation in it.
Credentials
- 7 years executive leadership experience in operations, marketing, and communications
- 7 years as an independent scholar researching grassroots social movements + racialized power dynamics, (incl. coursework at New York University and in community-led settings)
- 8 years in CT libraries (youth services, teens, and technical services, including cataloging + archives)
- 10 years as a community organizer specializing in radical collective care
- 11 years leading intergenerational and educational trainings, conferences, and workshops for all ages
- Expertise spanning 60+ diverse projects from Michelin-starred fine dining to grassroots mutual aid
- Equity Leadership Alliance (ELA) Cohort Graduate – National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ)
- PMP and DAMS certifications in progress
Achievements
- CT Lit Fest 2025, Enter the Zine Zone – Panelist
- DiasporaCon 2025, The Roots of Radical Reading – Panelist
- 2025 One Book One Wallingford Guest Teaching Artist
- CT Artists at Work (CAAW)- Founder + Organizer of Connecticut Artist Union
- 2024 Connecticut Office of the Arts, Artists Respond Grantee
- 2024 Communicator Awards of Excellence and Distinction – The Hub regional campaign “Ok To Talk About It”
- 2023 NESHCo Lamplighter Award of Excellence – You Think You Know CT educational campaign
- International World Premiere of Suzan Lori-Parks’ 365 Days/365 Plays – Lead Actor
Recent Press
- DiasporaCon Delights in Dixwell – New Haven Independent, April 2025
- The Revolution Will Be Spiraled – New Haven Independent, April 2025
- Experimental, quirky and independent, zines provide creative space for CT artists – Connecticut Public, July 2024
- Punk And Publications Celebrate Pride – New Haven Independent, June 2024
2025 Features / Exhibitions





