Maker
Tamara giving a leather mask making presentation at World Maker Faire
Tamara's adventures:
Jigsaw Renaissance in Seattle is where Tamara's workshop is now located. She learned of Jigsaw Renaissance while attending Maker Faire Bay Area in 2011.
Tamara met Adam Burk from the Treehouse Institute while attending the How to Make a Makerspace conference at Artisan's Asylum in Somerville, MA at the beginning of February.
Tamara helped out at the FabLab Tacoma booth at the recent Shift Happens event at the convention center in Tacoma.
At the FabLab Tacoma makerspace, Tamara taught a journal-making class that brought in 5 women to help her personal mission of trying to find ways to interest women in the myriad things makerspaces have to offer.
This year, at New York World Maker Faire, Tamara gave a presentation on how to make a leather mask in 13 easy steps. If you weren't in New York, here is the presentation.
Helped build community sculptures from wood or metal with the artists and artisans of Equinox Studios for the Georgetown Carnival.
Hosted a table at the Seattle Out and Proud Pride Picnic with decorative leather masks.
Attended the Clark County Recycled Arts Festival to show how to use scraps, found objects, and a few hand tools to
create personalized works of art!
Attended the biggest DIY event of the year. Tamara hosted workshops at Maker Faire this past year. And will be this year's Art Lead for Seattle Mini Maker Faire.
Taught afterschool workshops at Young At Art in West Seattle. Creative positive artist space for kids and adults!
Coordinated Brown Paper Tickets' involvement with Fremont First Friday Art Walk.
Learned more about the business of craft to advise other makers on making their art fruitful.
Prepared to moderate Becoming familiar with issues faced by Seattle art nonprofits to build up the local artist community.
Produced and coordinate the I CAN! (Interactive Community Arts Network) event at Freighthouse Square
Tamara Clammer
Maker Advocate
Tamara's mission is to help build sustainable Maker communities through connecting, learning and teaching. She assists experienced Makers in finding ways to share their skills and knowledge with the world via workshops, events, social media and word of mouth. She is a self-taught leatherworker, specializing in high quality masquerade style leather masks and has been an event producer with Brown Paper Tickets for the past year and a half, teaching mask making and general leatherworking classes.
Email Tamara
