Stephanie Rearick w/ Skye Carrasco - $6

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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Saturday, January 23, 2010

Stephanie Rearick is well known around these parts for her piano based rock cabaret music shows. She creates beautiful and haunting music using piano, trumpet, voice and a Boss Loopstation.

Keyboard Magazine says, "Amanda Palmer gone psychedelic and retro -- one of the rawest, most original aesthetics we've heard in awhile."

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Skye Carrasco has played the violin since the wee age of 5. Childhood=violin practice every day, making paper snowflakes while reading green eggs and ham, & worshiping Alanis Morissette. Years later, when Skye was studying Sonata in D major Opus 94 bis for violin & piano by Prokofiev, she felt her relationship with music changing. She wanted to find a way to write original music that expanded her classical training & that also encompassed her love for singing, poetry & the rich culture of gypsy folk music. Skye has been writing & performing her own music ever since, with special inspiration from her first chamber-pop band, Skursula (violin, cello & accordion, 2006-2008). In 2008, Skye spent some time in Portland, Oregon. She found creative solitude with the Cascadian pine trees & old time music radio. Her time out west has fueled a new kind of solo music-making, a style born from Stumptown espresso, steady rain, & drinking red wine in woolen slippers. Once again based out of Iowa City, Skye calls on company of J.S. Bach, Bjork, Ella Fitzgerald, Shostakovitch, & Violeta Parra to create a mingled duet that resonates between her violin-playing & vocals.