Tamara Conrad

(She/Her)

Born and raised in Northeastern Ohio, Tamara grew up on a small farm as an athlete with a wild imagination and a love of precision and storytelling. Tamara dabbled in creative writing and a variety of art media until discovering clay while pursuing her BFA at Ohio University. Her first love was the potter’s wheel which demanded both an active, precise physical engagement and complete presence of mind; the nearly limitless potential for creating flowing organic forms sparked her imagination.

Over the next two decades Tamara continued to hone her skills and deepen her knowledge of design and the creative process while teaching hundreds of art students in Ohio and North Carolina at every grade level from kindergarten to high school Advanced Placement. Tamara and her students accrued many local, state, and national awards most notably multiple National Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and the National Artist Teacher Fellowship.

After leaving public education in 2018, Tamara’s relationship with the clay began to expand from a fascination with the design of elegantly imperfect functional craft forms/sets to considering less traditional concepts for ceramic forms presented off the tabletop plane as well as an expanded scope of functional ceramic forms incorporating glass, wood, and fiber elements.