Mark Adkins w/ Larry Ravenswood

Art in the cafe...

Tamara Lea Kaufman


"pretty ~ ugly"


February 2026



Artist Statement Tamara Lea Kaufman’s personal artwork ranges from serious to quirky, dark, adult-themed humor. She creates multimedia assemblage, collage, and dioramas made from HO-scale railroad hobby miniatures, preserved insects, paint, embroidery, found objects, and typically discarded materials such as candy wrappers and the overlooked debris of everyday life. Her work explores topics of consumption, waste, desire, relationships, psychology, politics, societal pressures and the levity of humor needed to survive it all. It gives her joy to repurpose materials into something new, useful, or...
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Friday, February 23, 2007

Mark Adkins is the main singer and songwriter for Madison Area Music Award winning band, subvocal. Think psychedelic-electro-tribal-folk..

Larry Ravenswood plays an acoustic guitar, but does not necessarily present his music in the "traditional acoustic sense". On his latest project "Million Miles from Zen" he combines acoustic guitar with various keyboard and beat sounds, and then mixing it all with lush melodies, vibrant vocals and songwriting. He has performed in many cities throughout the USA; venues including State Fairs,clubs,coffee houses and halls. Born in Chicago and currently living in Minneapolis, the indestructable music veteran has endeared many ups and downs, trends and non trends, but has always survived any or no fallout the music biz has or has not to offer.

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