The Lonesome Aces

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, November 30, 2007

The Lonesome Aces feature traditional-style bluegrass songs written by John Fabke. Veteran musicians Dan O'Brien, Jon Peik and Jon Vriesacker will join John on bass, banjo and fiddle for this evening of high, lonesome picking and singing.

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