East Side Teen Poetry Reading

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, April 29, 2006

Join some of Madison's best high school poets for a night of passionate and visionary spoken word. An open mike will follow the scheduled performances. Poets: Bring your notebooks and your confident voices and show your stuff.

Contact Andrew McCuaig at 240-0889/amccuaig@tds.net for more information.

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