Painter and interior designer DeAnna Dasher, will be the featured artist for the fall season at the Dimmick Memorial Library in Jim Thorpe.

“The best part of art is creating the experience for people, creating something people relate to,” said Dasher. “I just like to share that with people — that human experience.”

On Sept. 6, art admirers will have a chance to meet the creator of the photographic/acrylic/digital art pieces that can be found in different venues around the United States.

“I used an old manhole cover I found near Stone Row (Race Street), with the NEHA Foundry logo for a 30-by-7-foot mural for the back of a bar. I took the embossed image and put it on a background with a digital print and framed it. A lot of art I do is mostly for hotel work. But I work for a consulting company and will pick images or create murals for hospitals too,” Dasher said.

“That’s how I stay out of trouble. I just keep doing things,” she said.

Dasher’s style is hand-creating with acrylic or photographs and turning those images into digital works. During the Dimmick exhibit, the mirroring pieces on different mediums will be displayed.

“For the show, I’ll have the actual painting next to the digital print so it’ll be interesting to have them side-by-side.”

Dasher, 31, attended The Art Institute of Pittsburgh and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in interior design.

“My first job was when I was 20 for a hotel company in Harrisburg. It was super fast-paced, and I was thrown in as lead designer,” she said.

“I worked to get them up-to-date with CAD (computer animated design), and I would do a design for a hotel, get it approved with the branding, like for Hilton, and would then order all the things needed. Then I would work with a contractor to get it done,” she said of the process.

Dasher grew up in Germansville and lived in Pittsburgh, Harrisburg and Allentown before settling in Jim Thorpe.

“I’ve always been interested in art. As a kid I would paint, was into art. As a senior in high school, I went to the Baum Art School in Allentown and then went (away) to art school,” she said.

“I recently found a diary from when I was 8 or 9 years old and drawn in the back was a floor plan, so it was great validation for choosing design,” she said.

Starting her own business over seven years ago, Dasher works from a home studio but has extensively traveled for her many designing gigs.

“In 2010, I left and started building up a client base from that,” she said.

Since moving to Carbon County five years ago, Dasher said she has really revisited her painting roots and began creating artwork for herself as well as her business.

“I do so many different things, so it’s an eclectic mix,” she said.

Pieces on display at the library for Dasher’s exhibit will range from photographs to prints and paintings. Twenty percent of any sales will be donated back to the library. Her designs will be featured throughout the historic building for two months during regular operating hours.

“I’m excited. It’s a really good way for me to put a collection together. I’ve been doing it a long time but never have put it all together,” she said.

An artist meet and greet will take place at the Dimmick Memorial Library, 54 Broadway in Jim Thorpe, from 6 to 7 p.m. Sept. 6.