About Tashi:
Tashi Haig is an artist and educator based in Boston, Massachusetts. From 2021-2023, Tashi worked at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York, first as an Apprentice Museum Educator, then as Coordinator of Programs and Partnerships, implementing educational materials for School and Family Programs relating to the museum’s Himalayan art collection and incorporating Social Emotional and Ethical (SEE) Learning strategies. From 2021-2022, Tashi developed lesson content as well as digital illustrations to accompany online courses on Buddhism for children with the Sachen Foundation. Tashi recently had the honor of collaborating with Susan Haig and Daniel Roby on the book As the Condor Soars: Conserving and Restoring Oregon’s Birds, published December 2022. Tashi’s art can be found at various local markets as Paper Wasp Art. Follow @paperwaspart on Instagram to stay up-to-date on future appearances!
Artist Statement:
I revel in the consistent change of nature: its beauty, cruelty, and decay ground the messiness of our human lives and society. Stepping back and observing the endless detail of plant, insect and animal activity in a forest, field or river bank reinforces our smallness in the ever-present cycles of life. These are the things which remind us simultaneously of the extraordinary beauty and terrible indifference of life. I seek to explore these ideas through my multi-media artwork. I enjoy combining unexpected media and representations of nature to convey the dualities found in our everyday lives. Pain and growth, death and new beginnings; ever-present change making way for the new.