BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//sebbo.net//ical-generator//EN NAME:Ocean County Library X-WR-CALNAME:Ocean County Library BEGIN:VEVENT UID:39da469f-b661-42e2-84de-89ecf171ae1d SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260717T122535Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260629T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260629T200000 SUMMARY:Art Exhibit Reception and Author Talk with Katy Tanis LOCATION:Lacey Branch\nLacey Branch X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Lacey Branch;X-APPLE-RADIU S=10;X-TITLE=Lacey Branch:geo:39.8393936,-74.190096 GEO:39.8393936;-74.190096 DESCRIPTION:Join children's book author and illustrator Katy Tanis for an art exhibition\, author talk\, and book signing\, along with a coloring cr aft for younger readers! All ages. Please register. .\nhttps://theoceancou ntylibrary.libnet.info/event/16220651 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Katy Tanis\, local author and illustrator\ , presents \;&lsquo\;Love Under The Sea&rsquo\;. \; This exhibit f eatures artworks from her new book with the same title. Katy&rsquo\;s book s are available for checkout through the Ocean County Library. For more in formation on her work and books\, visit her website \;daughterearth.co m

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Katy Tanis is a children's book author\, illustrator\, and explo rer. Her award-winning artwork has been seen on products and in art shows around the world. Katy grew up in Northern NJ\, where she spent most of he r days exploring imagined jungles with her three siblings. Her father&rsqu o\;s hardware store provided endless supplies for her creative pursuits. S he now lives and works at the Jersey Shore. She has an M.A. in Biology fro m Miami University\, a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.F.A. in Art from C arnegie Mellon University. \;Her career began in the fashion industry\ , traveling around the world to meet artisans and learn about their crafts &mdash\;woodblock printing in Kyoto\, graffiti in Berlin\, ceramics in Kwa Zulu-Natal\, Kantha embroidery in Bangalore\, and more. All of these exper iences help to inform her work.

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Katy highlights unusual and lesser -known animals and explores evolution and biogeography concepts in her wor k. She frequently travels around the globe to immerse herself in new ecosy stems\, like Madagascar&rsquo\;s spiny forest and Borneo&rsquo\;s tropical forest. \;She has a soft spot for the weirdos of the animal kingdom a nd has never met a color she didn&rsquo\;t like. View her work at: Daughte rEarth.com

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