Tara is a visual artist passionate about collaborative and community engaged art making. Her practice includes arts education, public art and murals, as well as project management and community engagement planning, practices that bridge her backgrounds from a Bachelor of Fine Art in Drawing & Painting from OCAD University and a Community Arts Practice Certificate from York University. Currently, Tara is studying a Masters of Education with an Arts in Education emphasis, at OISE, University of Toronto.
For over a decade, Tara has worn many hats from artist, arts educator, facilitator, curator, arts administrator and project manager. She has had the opportunity to work and learn from community-based art making experiences in libraries, schools, art galleries, community centres, seniors centres, skate parks, abandoned storefronts (you name it!) through projects in Toronto with Mural Routes, VIBE Arts, Nuit Blanche, Lakeshore Arts, Platform A, East End Arts and in London, UK in 2016-17 with groups like Entelechy Arts, Brockley Street Art Festival, Art Mongers and Lewisham Education Arts Network.
Tara has worked with the arts service organization Mural Routes since 2011, initially as leading youth murals, then as Program Coordinator (2012-16) and Program Director (2018-19); where she trained and grew as an artist, arts instructor, arts administrator, and project manager. She continues to work closely with them on a contract basis.
Tara is currently working freelance as an arts educator and project manager, focusing on programs and projects that are community engaged and use storytelling, brainstorming, and playful art techniques to encourage sharing, collective conversations and collaboration to bring many ideas together into creating powerful and joyful visual spaces.
For over a decade, Tara has worn many hats from artist, arts educator, facilitator, curator, arts administrator and project manager. She has had the opportunity to work and learn from community-based art making experiences in libraries, schools, art galleries, community centres, seniors centres, skate parks, abandoned storefronts (you name it!) through projects in Toronto with Mural Routes, VIBE Arts, Nuit Blanche, Lakeshore Arts, Platform A, East End Arts and in London, UK in 2016-17 with groups like Entelechy Arts, Brockley Street Art Festival, Art Mongers and Lewisham Education Arts Network.
Tara has worked with the arts service organization Mural Routes since 2011, initially as leading youth murals, then as Program Coordinator (2012-16) and Program Director (2018-19); where she trained and grew as an artist, arts instructor, arts administrator, and project manager. She continues to work closely with them on a contract basis.
Tara is currently working freelance as an arts educator and project manager, focusing on programs and projects that are community engaged and use storytelling, brainstorming, and playful art techniques to encourage sharing, collective conversations and collaboration to bring many ideas together into creating powerful and joyful visual spaces.
