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Artist presents mixed-media installation and interactive element for Asante Library project
Summary
Artist Tysha Harrison showed a 37-panel mixed-media design for the Asante Library, describing sewn panels, macramé accents and an acrylic front intended to be dry-erase-interactive; commissioners asked about scale, community participation and youth accessibility.
Artist Tysha Harrison presented her design for the Asante Library artwork at the July 30 Arts and Culture Advisory Commission meeting in Surprise.
Harrison described the project as a community-made, mixed-media installation that assembles about 37 small panels into a single 8-by-6-foot piece framed in acrylic and accented with macramé "flowers." "I named this project Expressions in Full Home," Harrison said. "My art is mostly mixed media collage. I love using mixed media collage acrylic... I start with 'I am' and then the title of the painting." She described workshops she ran at the library that produced the component…
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