Meet Tyasha/Ty


Artist, writer, poet, archivist, educator, researcher, organizer.

Word collector and lover of tiny, overlooked things. I make the vulnerable durable by archiving the ephemeral. 

Stuff left behind is my obsession. Phrases that linger after a random conversation with a stranger. An ex’s old t-shirt. The story that maybe wasn’t ever true but everyone repeats as gospel anyway. A recipe shouted over everyone talking on the back porch. The pillowcase stained with hair oil. The fading scars.

My work indexes the past, present and future of those of us at the intersections into books, zines, and pop-up experiences. I’m attempting to re-learn and remember the micro-connections that make us human and set us free.

Portfolio
Workshops
Projects

Exhibitions/Independent Projects

  • 2024 – 2026 Break the System Archive, Traveling Installation, Curator and Operator
  • 2025 Sticker Art Show, THE ANNEX, New London, CT

Publications

  • 2026 You Just Start: Community and Care, Food Havens: A Food Justice Community Archive
  • 2025  Living with Heartbreak: Abolition and Kayfabe, SuperFan Wrestling Zine, Vol. 2 
  • 2023  An Uncertain Walk, Ecologies of Care, Heel + Hive (1st Edition)

Permanent Collections

  • Barnard College Zine Library, Columbia University, New York, NY

Panels/Workshops

  • 2026 Co-Facilitator, DIY Media and Zines, Yale University LGBTQ Center, New Haven, CT 
  • 2025 Facilitator, Zines for Liberation, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 
  • 2025 Panelist, Enter the Zine Zone, CT Literary Festival, Hartford, CT 
  • 2025 Panelist, The Roots of Radical Reading, DiasporaCon, New Haven, CT 
  • 2025 Guest Teaching Artist, One Book One Wallingford, Wallingford Public Library, CT

Grants

  • 2026 American Humanist Association, The American Empathy Project grantee
  • 2025 National Black Food & Justice Alliance (NBFJA), Mutual Aid Resource Capacity (MARC) Fund grantee
  • 2024 Connecticut Office of the Arts, Artists Respond grantee

Press