I On the Arts: When did you start making art? What's your art background?
Tasha Lewis: I started making art as a kid; it was always a part of my life. Once I got older, I focused on photography and eventually convinced my parents to set up a darkroom on our basement. In high school I experimented with different print methods in the darkroom, and kept trying to push the photographs to rely more on my hand than a mechanical process (with few successes). The summer before my senior year I attended an Alternative processes photography camp in Maine and it totally changed the way I thought about the photograph. I came back with knowledge of 6-7 new processes and started to use them in 2-D mixed-media work.