PROFILE
All About Tanya Lee Ceramics
Tanya Lee Hamm is a female artist educator in the Hudson River Valley that explores character, figure and subjects surrounding nature and spirituality. She graduated from SUNY New Paltz with a bachelors in Visual Art Education, with a concentration in ceramics. After graduating she taught in many different settings and to a diverse population of students, ranging from day habilitation programs for young adults with disabilities, to private schools teaching students aged from 3-12, and to workshops curated for parent and child experience.
She was born in Boston Massachusetts in 1989, but spent most of her life in the small towns found in the Hudson Valley of New York. Here is where she explored her love and interest of everything individualist, wild and alone. Being a latchkey, only child of the 90’s, her time of solitude was where she explored the wilderness of her surroundings, as well as her imagination, and the possibilities it held to create characters, and stories through play and art. As an adult she still finds herself exploring these themes using watercolors, clay and firing process’, but now with a deeper understanding of independence, narrative, nature and persona’s. She tries to live her life weaving her passion for art and story telling in all she does, wether its gardening on her land, cooking for her friends and family, teaching and playing in her home studio, meditating with the tarot, or working on puppets and doll houses to never forget the perspective she cultivated from her childhood.
RESUME
Professional History
EDUCATION
2011-2013
BACHELOR'S OF SCIENCE IN VISUAL ART EDUCATION, SUNY NEW PALTZ, NEW
PALTZ, NY
Major: Visual Arts Education Concentration: Ceramics 3.45 GPA, Deans List
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2007-2011
ASSOCIATES IN ARTS, COLUMBIA-GREENE COMMUNITY COLLEGE, HUDSON, NY 3.50 GPA, Deans List
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New York State Initial Certification in Visual Art Education, (K-12), Pending.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2020-CURRENT
DAY HAB ASSISTANT, TRIFORM CAMPHILL COMMUNITY, HUDSON, NY
I am a supporting role in helping teach life skills to a diverse population of young adults with developmental disabilities. In this program I have led the forestry and horse skill program, ran the family and consumer science program teaching food preparation and nutrition, and helped with a ceramic program where we create functional pottery we sell for our community.
2021-CURRENT
LEAD CERAMIC INSTRUCTOR, CATSKILL MONTESSORI SCHOOL, CATSKILL, NY
I am a specials teacher who concentrates on ceramics and art education. I educate students ranging from 3-11 years of age about the magic of clay and the materials ability to become nonfunctional or functional art.
2019
LEAD CERAMIC INSTRUCTOR, COMMON GROUND ON THE HILL, MCDANIEL
COLLEGE, WEST MINSTER MD
Spent a week teaching a mask making workshop to a population of students that ranged from 7- 75.
2019
WOOD FIRE CERAMICS RESIDENCY, SALEM ART WORKS, SALEM, MA Spent 5 days loading, firing and learning about the process of firing a train kiln.
2018-2019
STUDIO ASSISTANT TO ARNIE ZIMMERMAN, ARNIE ZIMMERMAN STUDIO, HUDSON, NY Helped create glazes, assembling large-scale sculptures, and soda-firing work. Prepared shows and displays, as well as helping with web design and online presence.
STUDIO SKILS
Ceramics: Wheel throwing, Hand Building, Design and Printing of Decal, Glaze and Clay Development, Electric, Soda and Wood Firing.
Printmaking: Wood Cut, Silk Screen
Sculpture: Puppet Making, Fabric Arts, Power Tools, Wood, Metal, Video/Audio, Assemblage
Drawing: Ink, Charcoal, Pastel, Graphite
Painting: Watercolor, Acrylic, Encaustic, Oil, Gouache
Education Philosophy: Waldorf, Montessori, pre-k-12
SHOWS
2019
Staff Show at Common Ground on the Hill