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Tape Art

American, established 1989

Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System Director Mary Jean Jakubowski, Albright-Knox Curator of Public Art Aaron Ott, Tape Art Executive Director Kristen Carbone, Tape Art Founder and Creative Director Michael Townsend, Tape Art Artist Leah Smith, and Albright-Knox Director Janne Sirén in front of Buffalo Caverns, 2014, at the Central Library. Photograph by Pamela Martin.

Tape Art is a collective of artists based in Providence, Rhode Island, that uses low-adhesive tape to temporarily transform spaces through a collaborative drawing process. Since 1989, the Tape Art team has been using this medium to create large-scale, temporary public artworks across the globe.

Last updated 2019