Hanah Jon Taylor & Hamid Drake Duo

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, December 17, 2011

Hanah Jon Taylor emerges as one of the most inspiring musicians on the contemporary music scene today. A native of Chicago, Taylor has received the critical acclaim of audiences and media throughout Europe, the Americas, and Asia Minor. His unique and lyrical persona on flute, saxophones, and wind synthesizer has warranted him as a true innovator of improvisation.

Hamid Drake incorporates Afro-Cuban, Indian, and African percussion instruments and influence, in addition to using the standard trap set, Drake has collaborated extensively with top free jazz improvisers Peter Brotzmann, Fred Anderson, and Ken Vandermark, among others. Since the late 1990s, Hamid Drake is widely regarded as one of the best percussionists in improvised music.

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