Tasha Lewis studied Studio Art and Literature at Swarthmore College, in Swarthmore, PA. A year after graduating, she moved to New York City to pursue her career as a sculptor. In the fall of 2015 Lewis was the first two-month resident at the StudioWorks program at the Tides Institute in Eastport, Maine. During that residency, she created 644 works on paper in 18 different artistic styles / materials each in response to a single page in James Joyce’s infamous novel Ulysses. She self-published that project as a book called “Illustrating Joyce’s Ulysses in Eight Weeks.” The book was favorably featured by Harvard professor Louis Menand in his 2016 Bloomsday article for The New Yorker. Lewis has forthcoming exhibits at Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens (Fall 2018) and the Parthenon Museum in Nashville, TN (Spring 2020). Both of these solo shows will feature sculptures from her developing body of work “Flood Lines” which seeks to engage in the conversation about anxiety and the treatment of women’s bodies. The pieces present tidal imagery with beaded encrustation set on Classical Greek artifacts.

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Overview
Swarm the World is soft cover art book chronicling the three year global collaborative street art project organized by Tasha Lewis with the help of 120 strangers— and a few friends — from all seven continents. Spanning 45 different countries, 6,000 magnetic cyanotype butterflies traveled from person to person and were photographed in ephemeral public installations. This book is a curated collection that captures the heart of this whimsical project. It includes an introduction and afterword by Tasha as well as stories from several participants.
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Book details
- Genre:art
- Sub-genre:Graffiti & Street Art
- Language:English
- Pages:260
- Paperback ISBN:9781543919738