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    "For me, my art is all about the experience: the experience of making it, the experience of seeing it, and the experience of watching it evolve into something new. I try to avoid creating passive pieces that the viewer simply ‘looks’ at. I want them to have to decode or question what I have made for them. When I create a doodle, there is no set image in mind, what happens, happens, and I let that reflect in the finished work. 
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    ​I use multiple layers with different mediums like clay and polymer, and print over and over and over, to take the viewer with me through the creating process. Each step is somehow featured, and each piece is not just a finished project, but a showcase for some of the ideas that came before. One doodle can take me in a thousand different directions, helping create something new each time I start a work. It is from this journey that my work as an artist continues to evolve."
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                                                                      - Tamm Whitty 

About Tamara Whitty

Originally from Pennsylvania where she received a B.A. in Fine Arts/ Music History, and a B.M. and M.M in Vocal Performance at Syracuse University, Tamara Whitty moved to Michigan after graduation to form her own private voice studio. Once she had an established business under her belt, Tamm was finally able to devote serious time to her other life long interest: visual art.

Although Tamara’s full time pursuit of visual art didn’t officially begin until 2004, she has always had a strong passion for doodling. Since she was a child, Tamara would doodle on any blank surface she could get her hands on, and during her years at the Detroit Opera House she filled countless journals with intricate works. As she progressed, so did the doodles, moving from one medium to the next until a style uniquely her own began to form. 

Tamara’s work began to pick up momentum with her first solo show entitled “Evolution of a Doodle” in 2008 at Redwood Photography in Grosse Pointe. From there she has been featured in a number of different shows, both solo and collaborative, with five of her pieces being chosen to hang in the Manoogian mansion for the 2014 Governor's Collection. 

​Tamara is now looking to expand her audience outside of the Michigan area with a new online store, a larger collection of boutique items such as jewelry, mugs, and tote bags, and a number of well placed commissions. As her music business thrives, Tamm is continuing her artwork, hoping to share her passion and creativity with the world. ​
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Exhibition History & Background

SOLO SHOWS
   May-August 2010
   November-December 2009
   August 2009
   September 2008
​   June 2008

Flora Phantasmagorical ​
Evolutions of a Doodle IV
Evolutions of a Doodle III
Evolutions of a Doodle II
Evolutions of a Doodle I


Inn Season Cafe
Paramount Bank Community Gallery
Che Cosa Coffee House
Got Rocks Ultra Lounge​
​Redwood Photography

Royal Oak, MI
Ferndale, MI
Mt. Clemens, MI
​BIrmingham, MI
Grosse Pointe, MI

GROUP SHOWS
   November-December 2010
   March- April 2010
   December 2009
   October 2008
   September 2008
   May 2008
   November-February 2004

Holiday Show
Green Show
Ben Franklin Project
11x14 Show
The Word as Image
Student Art Show
Sister Sister

Grosse Pointe Artists Association
Grosse Pointe Artists Association
555 Gallery
Grosse Pointe Artists Association
Grosse Pointe Artists Association
College for Creative Studies
​Izzy's Raw Art Gallery


Grosse Pointe, MI
Grosse Pointe, MI
Detroit, MI
Grosse Pointe, MI
Groose Pointe, MI
Detroit, MI
​Detroit, MI

ART FESTIVALS - JURIED 
   September 2010
   September 2007, 08, 09
OTHER
Summer 2006, 07, 08, 09, 10
​September 2007 

Art on the Block
Funky Ferndale Art Festival

West Park Market
​Dally in the Alley

Grosse Pointe, MI
​Ferndale, MI

Grosse Pointe Park, MI
​Detroit, MI

COMMISSIONS
   2010               Hand Printed Menu Covers  ("Positive Beet" linoleum carving)          
                           Inn Season Cafe - Royal oak, MI

   2007              Children's Room Murals  (linoleum block prints and acrylics)            
                           Squitieri Residence - Grosse Poine Park, MI


BIBLIOGRAPHY
   2006              Cover of CCS Continuing Education Catalogue ("Hedwig" gouache on illustration board)

RETAIL
   2010-present  (10x10 gallery and display space within store) 
                           
Rainy Day Art Supply - Grosse Pointe Farms, MI

EDUCATION
   1997                  SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY          M.M. Voice Performance          GPA: 3.8/4.0
   1993                  SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY          B.M. Voice Performance
   1993                  SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY          B.A. Fine Arts-Music History    GPA:3.7/4.0, magna cum laude, with honors.

Other relevant Course work
   2003                 PANTHEATRE (Paris, France)    Professional Voice Workshop 
                              (Avant gard Voice, Movement, and Improvisational)

Performance Art

   2009                 College for Creative Studies        Intro to Digital Design
   
2006                 College for Creative Studies        Fundamentals of Design 
 

   VOICE: Jeanette Dagger (3 yr), Dina Winter (2 yr), Helen Boatwright (6 yr), Diana Walters (2 yr)                     
   PIANO: Syracuse University (2 yr), Carol Hazelet (12 yr)

   DANCE: Ballet (11 yr), Tap (13 yr), Jazz (9 yr), Acrobatics (12 yr), Modern (4 yr)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE IN OTHER ARTISTIC DISCIPLINES
(Relevant to my artistic process, perspective and future goals.)
OPERA 
   Pirates of Penzance
   Le Nozze di Figaro
   Anoush
   Araboolies of Liberty Street
   Hansel and Gretel
   The Cadillac's & their Great Lakes Adv.

Kate
Bridesmaid
Girl #5
Momoolie
Hansel
Madame Cadillac

Michigan Opera Theatre
Michigan Opera Theatre
Michigan Opera Theatre
MOT Outreach 
MOT Outreach
​MOT Outreach

   40+ productions including • Margaret Garner • The Pearl Fishers • Dead Man Walking • Don Giovanni • Don Pasquale  
       II Trovatore • Carmen • Lakme • Peter Grimes     -   Chorus   -   Michigan Opera Theatre
   Turandot
   The Devil and Daniel Webster
   Amahl and the Night Visitors
Chorus
Old Woman
​Chorus
MOT, Pittsburgh Opera
Operalaboratorio (Palermo, Italy)
​Operalaboratorio
ORATORIO/RECITAL 
   Solo Recital (Macomb, MI)
   Solo Recital (Le Marais, Paris, France 
   Lexington Bach Festival  
   Christ Church of Cambridge (Mass.)
   Metropolitan Detroit Chorale 
   Grosse Pointe United Church  
​   DeHaven Chorale


program available on request
program available on request
Magnificat - mezzo soloist
Liebesleider Waltzes(Brahms), Chansons de Bilitis(Debussy)
Messiah(Handel)- mezzo soloist 
Solo Voice Recital- program available
B Minor Mass(Bach), Mass in C minor (Mozart), St. Matthew Passion (Bach),
Magnificat(Bach),  Messiah(Handel)- mezzo soloist 
THEATRE
​    
A Grand Night for SInging
   The Last Great British Sex Farce Ever
   You're A Good Man Charlie Brown
   Mikado
   Holiday Broadway Review
   Izzy, an Irving Berlin Review
   Father BIngo
   Sweet & Hot (Harld Arlen Review
​   Tap Dance
   Food Fright 

​LECTURE  

   “Vocal Yoga: ‘Metaphysiology’ of the Voice” ​

​Lead
Mona 
Lucy/Music Director
Yum Yum
Lead
Lead
Music Director
Music Director
Music/Choreography
Director/Music/Choreography

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PANTHEATRE Round Table Lectures

​Trenton Village THeatre
Broadway Onstage
Broadway Onstage
Broadway Onstage
Curtain Up Theatre
Salt City Center
Detroit Music Hall
Rochester Community Theatre
Broadway Onstage
​Syracuse University


Paris, France
FILM
   KHU (Ancient Evenings) by Matthew Barney                                                
          Officer Chorus       Actor, Singer
 
DISCOGRAPHY
   LARVAL- Predator or Prey (Knitting Factory Records)   
          Vocals, “The Entity Returns” by Bill Brovolt  and “Entity Re-mix” Bill Brovolt, remixed by Carl Craig ​
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
2013-present
1996-present
2001-2015
1997-present
GROSSE POINTE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH (music & arts director)
PRIVATE VOICE STUDIO (teacher to 40+ students)
MOUNT CLEMENS ARTS CONSORTIUM  (voice teacher)
MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE  (professional chorus member) 
Grosse Pointe Farms, Mi
​Grosse Pointe Park, MI
Mount Clemens, MI
Detroit, MI
ACADEMIC HONOR SOCIETIES
    Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Golden Key, Pi Kappa Lambda, Eta Pi Upsilon, Order of Omega, Sigma Alpha Iota

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
    AGMA, NATS, SAI Alumni Chapter, Grosse Pointe Artists Association
Tamm Whitty - Grosse Pointe Park, MI - Tamm@28thSyzygy.com

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Welcome
About
Exhibits
​Shop Online
​Terminology
​Contact
Mediums
Doodles
Canvas
Polyclay
Carvings
​Prints
Functional Art
​Apparel
Housewares
Jewelry
Sculptures
Stationary
UpComing Events
Exhibits
Tamm Jams
Private Classes
Voice Lessons
Workshops
Follow Me
Blog
Facebook
Instagram
Pinterest
Twitter

28th Syzygy © 2016 All Rights Reserved - Website by Lynette Arlene Productions
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  • Mediums
    • Doodles
    • Carvings
    • Polymer clay
    • Canvas
    • Prints
    • Functional Art
  • Upcoming Events
    • Tamm Jams
    • Classes & Workshops
    • Exhibits
  • Contact
  • Blog
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  • Process
  • Mediums
    • Doodles
    • Carvings
    • Polymer clay
    • Canvas
    • Prints
    • Functional Art
  • Upcoming Events
    • Tamm Jams
    • Classes & Workshops
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