Tasha Dougé is a Bronx-based conceptual mixed-media artist, teaching artist, and cultural vigilante. Her work incites conversations around women, health advocacy, sexual education, societal "norms," identity, and Black pride. As a proud Black woman of Haitian descent, it's very important and fundamental to her practice to depict a more holistic description of who Black people are and what they have contributed overall. She has been featured in The New York Times, Essence Magazine, and Sugarcane Magazine. She has shown nationally at the RISD Museum (Providence), The Apollo Theater (Harlem), and Rush Arts Gallery (Philadelphia). Internationally, Dougé has shown at the Hygiene Museum in Germany. She is an alum of the Laundromat Project's Create Change Fellowship, Urban Bush Women's Summer Leadership Institute, The Studio Museum of Harlem's Museum Education Program, and the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute's Innovative Cultural Advocacy Fellowship.
They See {God} I Am is a series capturing Tasha Dougé's visual transformation into the God/Sacred being that she knows Black women to be. Honoring that Black bodies belong everywhere and anywhere, her transfiguration happened in the middle of Times Square during a pandemic. With the gaze of hundreds, she stood proudly in her divinity with a reminder that her ancestors are still with her (Haitian face mask). This series is a collaboration of her body & spirit, the gaze of one of the photographers and a stranger she met that day. They Know We Are {Gods} We Are.
