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The Tanster
The Tanster is a street artist in the Hamptons on the East End of Long Island in New York State. She began installing public art works in the community in the late Summer of 2014. Each piece of work that is displayed is uploaded onto the @gemeinschaftprojeckt Instagram site. Her project was named as one the top 10 artistic events in 2014 by the cultural magazine Dan's Papers.

The Tanster has partnered with a local charity, the Coalition For Women's Cancers at Southampton Hospital. The Coalition's main mission is creating and sustaining a supportive network in the community for women affected by breast, ovarian, and uterine cancers. The coalition focuses on education, early detection and empowerment to bring about better health care and improved quality of life.

Each piece of pop up art that The Tanster installs includes donation information for the Coalition. People are encouraged to take the art when they find it. On the back of is a request for donations and a guide on how people can help. There is no fee for The Tanster's art, merely a request to give to the charity.

Biography
The Tanster was born in Southampton, NY and attended Southampton High School. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Stony Brook University and has a Master's degree in video production from the New York Institute of Technology. For a year she lived in Paris, France, studying art history at the Sorbonne. Her photographs have been published in magazines all over the world and she is currently managed by Getty Images. She began installing pop up public art in the Hamptons in August of 2014.

Technique
The primary style of The Tanster public art installations involves repurposed yard signs spray painted in rainbow palettes. Often times the pieces include original stencils. The yard signs which serve as her canvases are typically plastic rectangles. The Tanster creates her works in a gallery in Water Mill, New York and then places them out in the public, either mounted on metal frames or stapled with wire to posts.