White, Leslie

I am the owner of a small business: DP Printing Special Edition Inc., & Creative Space in Tacoma (Midland, WA).   DP Printing was started in 1943, and I purchased it in 1988.  In 2003, I moved my company from Portland, OR to Tacoma, WA to be closer to family.

For work, I do graphic design, desktop publishing, research and printing. I draw, paint, and create unique art items from recycled materials.  

My passion is "Upcycling" the process of converting waste materials or useless products into new materials or products of better quality or a higher environmental value. This phrase was first coined in the book - Cradle to Cradle, by McDonough and Braungart. 

My work is on display at my shop located at: 315 99th Street East; Tacoma, WA.  One storefront is a gallery space that I share from time to time with other artists who  wish to display their work (free of charge based on the phantom gallery program). The other is my private studio / business.  

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Chair Affair Artist

I am the owner of a small business: DP Printing Special Edition Inc., & Creative Space in Tacoma (Midland, WA).   DP Printing was started in 1943, and I purchased it in 1988.  In 2003, I moved my company from Portland, OR to Tacoma, WA to be closer to family.

For work, I do graphic design, desktop publishing, research and printing. I draw, paint, and create unique art items from recycled materials.  

My passion is "Upcycling" the process of converting waste materials or useless products into new materials or products of better quality or a higher environmental value. This phrase was first coined in the book - Cradle to Cradle, by McDonough and Braungart. 

My work is on display at my shop located at: 315 99th Street East; Tacoma, WA.  One storefront is a gallery space that I share from time to time with other artists who  wish to display their work (free of charge based on the phantom gallery program). The other is my private studio / business.  

Ashanti Stool

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My inspiration for this stool/chair comes from the Ashanti tribe in Ghana West Africa.

Over the centuries stools and chairs were used to represent symbols of status and power. Today they are a traditional part of daily life. There are   societies that consider their carved stools and chairs to be extremely personal.  Some considered stools to be spiritual as well as practical; it was believed that an individual's stool was the container for the owner's soul. 

Adinkra is a cotton cloth produced in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire which has traditional Akan symbols stamped upon it. The adinkra symbols represent popular proverbs and maxims.
Gye Nyame" (jeh N-yah-mee) is the name of the adinkra symbol on the seat of my chair.  Its native African translation means: No one lives who saw its beginning and no one will live to see it's end, except God.

Gye Nyame (except god) is revered as one of highest Akan spiritual symbols.

Kente cloth, (nwentoma) is a type of fabric made of 4" interwoven cloth strips and is native to the Akan people of Ghana and the Ivory Coast.