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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.

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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

  • Exhibited Artist
  • Panelist + Vendor
  • Exhibited Artist + Workshop Facilitator
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