Make Music Madison 2025

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, June 21, 2025
11am - 5

Due to delays in getting our entryway fixed, we have scaled back on our Make Music Madison schedule and moved most of our scheduled performers to Barb and Luciano's home at 2314 E. Dayton. Here is their schedule.

4pm - 4:15pm - Ensemble Shamaali
Middle Eastern

4:15pm - 5pm - Nola talks to trees
Indie-Folk Pop Singer / Songwriter

Nola talks to trees is the project of Madison singer-songwriter Nola Pastor (she/her). Nola writes and sings about love, loss, wild things, and complex trauma. She performs with Baz Sundark (hey/they) and Liz Levy (she/her) as the Chaos Gremlins, where they use music as a space to celebrate messy authenticity and the power of chosen family.

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