Tamara Melcher
| Birthplace: | Boston, MA |
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| Education: | Boston Museum School 1958-1960 |
| California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco 1960-1962 | |
| Bachelor of Fine Arts 1962 | |
| Manhattan: | Park Place Gallery 1962-1967 |
| Begin serious astrological study 1965 | |
| Tamala Design 1973-1986 | |
| Retail store and whole clothing business in Soho making hand painted silk clothing, collage jackets and silk screened cottons. |
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| Austin, TX: | Personal growth, healing and art making 1986-1996 |
| Kirkwood, PA: | Move to PA in 1996 |
| Begin working in glass 2000 | |
| Begin macro photography of glass 2007 |
Exhibitions
| 2010 | 'Exhibition at Holly Peters' Holly Peters - Kennett Square, PA |
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| 2010 | 'Exhibition at the Goggleworks' Goggleworks - Reading, PA |
| 2010 | 'Interdimensional Landscapes' StoveFactory Gallery - Charlestown, MA |
| 2008 | 'Reimagining Space - The Park Place Gallery Group in 1960s New York' Blanton Museum - Austin, TX |
| 2002 | Chester Springs Studio - Chester Springs, PA |
| 2001 | Chester Springs Studio - Chester Springs, PA |
| 1990 | Gayle Willson Gallery - Southampton, NY |
| 1985 | 'Wearable Art for the Collector' Evansville Museum of Arts and Sciences Evansville IL Best of Show Award |
| 1983 | Gayle Willson Gallery - Southampton, NY |
| 1982 | Gayle Willson Gallery - Southampton, NY |
| 1981 | Sylvia Ullman American Crafts - Cleveland, OH |
| 1981 | 'Art Couture, Haute Couture' - Pittsburgh Center for the Arts |
| 1981 | 'You'll Never Walk Alone' Clothing as Art, Cleveland Art Institute |
| 1969 | Paul Cooper Gallery NY Group show |
| 1968 | 'Park Place Group' Hayden Gallery - MIT Boston, MA |
| 1967 | Long Beach Island Foundation for the Arts and Sciences, Loveladies, NJ |
| 1967 | 'Park Place Gallery' Friends of Contemporary Art Lincoln Towers, Denver, CO |
| 1967 | 'Art for the City' Institute for Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1966 | Fourwinds Gallery Lannan Foundation Museum, Palm Beach, FL |
| 1966 | 'Tamara Melcher Paintings/Bernard Kirschenbaum Domes' Park Place Gallery - New York |
| 1965 | '4D' John Daniels Gallery - New York |
| 1962-1967 | Park Place Gallery Group Exhibitions |
Tamara at work on glass drawings