Tami Fuller

Tami Fuller is a studio fiber artist based out of East Aurora, working as an abstract weaver and felt artist. Born and raised on a family sheep farm, and connected to the fiber community in a professional capacity, using traditional women’s work as a medium to explore these concepts was a natural choice. She is self-taught and works in abstract using woven tapestry, soft sculpture, mixed media and metals.

Her work is driven by first person experiences with abuse and assault, and she uses her work to explore post-trauma identity concepts from the female perspective. She uses traditional process based technique as a jumping off point for intuitive artmaking. Her work alludes to entrapment, suspended states and recovery through self-actualization against the backdrop of larger social discourse surrounding female trauma, victimization and reclamation.

Fuller’s work blends the fluidity and softness of wool with sharp lines and metal. She began deliberately interjecting chaotic elements and foreign objects into linear weaving as an exercise in letting go of conforming to external standards, and her weaving mimics this sense of escape and overflow.  The contrasting elements create work that is thought provoking, visceral, and at once stark and delicate.. She is especially fascinated by unraveling of one’s identity during crisis mirrors the disintegration from linear form into abstract, and believes that the illusion of loss is a path to personal freedom and empowerment.

Her practice revolves around survivorship and a route to a successful self-actualization and integration process.

In addition to working as a full-time artist, writer, editor, she teaches fiber arts and creative practice workshops for both adults and youth under the banner of her Fiber Arts Education business, Blubird Studio. She has been working as a NY Council on the Arts a Creatives Rebuild NY grant recipient since 2022, defining culture-makers working to promote and revitalize the arts landscape in WNY post-COVID. She is also a self-taught pianist, oil painter and model, and a freelance art writer for Lake Affect Magazine. She recently accepted the position of Executive Coordinator for the Roycrofters-at-Large Association, the arts organization supporting modern Roycroft Masters working in the application of fine craft nationwide.

In July of 2023, she began a path as gallerist and curator by opening The COMMA, a fine art gallery, in collaboration with two other women artists, which operates out of 17 Elm Street, where her studio is located. She is also a freelance writer and editor, contributes arts coverage for Lake Affect Magazine. She serves are Emerging Artists Program Chair for the Roycrofters-at-Large, a program she piloted and implemented in 2021 with the support of the Board. She is currently serving as the Primary Coordinator for the Arts Council for Wyoming County Fiber Flurry Festival.

Solo Shows:

Solo Exhibitions:

2023

Project 308 Gallery “Silent Forms”

2022

Aurora Theatre: It Takes a Village Community Mental Health Initiative

2022

“Sound Forms,” Studio Show, Artwalk, Redfish Art Studios, East Aurora, NY

2022

“Wild Forms,” Studio Show, Artwalk, Redfish Art Studios, East Aurora, NY

2021

“Distressed Compositions,” Wild Things Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

For Group Shows and Educational Addendum, contact via email.