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About the Artists
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Carolyn
Tamny
had been working in the Jewelry Industry for nearly 20 years
when she co-founded The Tamny Collection. After graduating from
Kent State University in 1982 with her Bachelor of Fine Arts
degree, she moved to Columbus, Ohio, and practiced her craft
for six years for a local jewelry manufacturer. Carolyn spent
the next decade-and-a-half as a retail jewelry designer and
goldsmith. In June of 2002, she began crafting her own original
designs from her home-based studio, many of which are now presented
in The Tamny Collection. She continues to live in Columbus with
her husband David and their son Matthew.
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Sandi Knell Tamny creates prints,
paintings, drawings and sculptural art, as well as commissioned
works of Judaica. She has exhibited nationally and internationally,
and her work resides in numerous private and institutional collections
. In 2002, Sandi won the prestigious
Philip & Sylvia Spertus Judaica Prize Competition..
Her 1992 sculptural suite titled The Chosen, based on
the 500th anniversary of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain
in 1492, toured nationally for five years. A graduate of the
Kent State University School of Art, Sandi is a former National
Secretary / Treasurer for the Women's Caucus for Art (a group
of 3700 visual arts professionals), which honored her in 1992
for her long-term contributions to the Women's Movement and
the Arts. Sandi makes her home and maintains her studio in New
York City.
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T.J. Tamny came to the Fiber Arts in the mid-1980's,
after an early career in the Information Technology industry.
A graduate of Oklahoma State University with a Bachelor's Degree
in Management Science and Computer Systems, T.J. had held positions
at Phillips Petroleum and the Zale Corporation before she became
the sole proprietor of Quality Concepts, a quality assurance
consulting firm. Soon after taking a class in quilting in 1984,
however, she decided that fiber art was where she wanted to
channel her energies. With the opening of Quilting Etc. in 1992,
T.J. found herself teaching, retailing and designing for the
quilting industry. She currently lectures nationally, is a trained
quilt appraiser-- and, of course, creates spectacular quilts
and wearable art for The Tamny Collection. T.J. makes her home
in Dallas, Texas, with her husband Alan and their daughter Amanda.
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