Kea Tawana
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kea-tawana-207-4929749
title:
Kea Tawana
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Kea Tawana was an American artist known for creating the Ark, an 86-foot-long, three-story high ship she built in Newark, New Jersey, starting in 1982. For decades she had collected salvaged wood, stained glass, and other materials from abandoned buildings in the city's Central Ward, which had been hollowed out by poverty and riots in the late 1960s. She built the Ark on an empty lot; it was still unfinished when the city condemned it in 1987. Unable to find a new location, Tawana dismantled her
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American artist (c 1936–2016)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kea_Tawana
date created:
2014-12-08T07:05:15Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T01:33:39Z
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