Elk's Teeth & Rabbit's Feet w/ Original Mechanical Mouse

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, January 16, 2015
8:00 pm

This is an EP Release Party for Elks Teeth & Rabbits Feet. Billing themselves as "Folk Rock Noir" they conjure up a sound that quietly and methodically heavy. Big voices, some super quiet songs and some that will burn the place down. Featuring Leah Brooke and Blair Clark from The Sills.

"Original Mechanical Mouse" is making his third appearance at Mother Fools on Jan 16th. "Mouse" as his music friends call him is a third generation singer-songwriter but not a "roots" musician per se. His real name is Joel Collinsworth. His hardscrabble life in the working-class combined with indie music sensibilities drawn from artists such as Elliot Smith, Nick Drake, and the Shins influence much of his work. If you like songs that tell a story and paint the picture in your mind, while gripping you with rhythm and emotion, you'll like OMM. Joel has been compared to Bon Iver, Neil Young, and even Daniel Johnston among others.