About

From the Artist

"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.

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."

- 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.

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

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