Tara Tucker is a Visual Artist living and holding her studio practice in Berkeley, California. She primarily draws and works with textiles, but holds her BFA and MFA in Sculpture from the California College of Arts and Crafts (now CCA). Sculpture helps round out and inform all of her work. As a kid, she volunteered with her Mom at the local Natural History Museum where she catalogued bones while her Mom did taxidermy. Orchid plants, fruit trees, monsters, and long winded stories were family interests. All of these things find their way into Tucker’s subject matter. The life experiences have become much more odd over the years and so the work keeps transforming.
When not in her own studio, Tucker is an Artist Facilitator at Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, CA. There, she heads the Rug making department where she has been helping artists create and design handmade artist rugs for 23 years. Tara Tucker is represented by The Rena Bransten Gallery in San Francisco, CA, and has shown nationally and internationally. Some of the most important moments in her art career have been: The JB Blunk Artist Residency in Inverness, CA and speaking/ holding a rug workshop at Cooper Hewitt Lab: Design Access: Rug Making with Creative Growth Art Center, Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York. To have artists and artists with developmental disabilities travel from all over New York and New England to take part in the workshop and lecture was a top honor.