Education
2013 – MS, Environmental Science, University of Colorado @ Denver
2011 – MFA, Painting, Colorado State University
2007 – BA, Fine Art, University of Colorado @ Denver
1992 – AS, Biology, Hagerstown Junior College
Solo Exhibitions
2023 – Tame Your Marmots, Telluride Arts HQ, Telluride, CO
2023 – Human-Nature, Telluride Arts HQ, Telluride, CO
2022 – What Remains, Montrose Center for the Arts, Montrose, CO
2022 – Human-Nature, Gallery 610, Ridgway, CO
2022 – Tame Your Marmots, Loveland Museum, Loveland, CO
2020 – We Want Our View, Telluride Arts HQ, Telluride, CO
2019 – Domesticates, 610 Arts Collective, Ridgway, CO
2019 – We Want Our View, 610 Arts Collective, Ridgway, CO
2018 – The Sneaky Marmot Returns, 610 Arts Collective, Ridgway, CO
2016 – We Want Our View, Artisan Framing, Fort Collins, CO
2014 – Exposing the Sneaky Marmot, Loveland Museum and Gallery, Loveland, CO
2013 – Exposing the Sneaky Marmot, Dean’s Gallery, University of Colorado, Denver, CO
2013 – Exposing the Sneaky Marmot: Misperception, Futility, and the Illusion of Control, NEXT Gallery, Denver, CO
Group Exhibitions
2025 – Winter Exhibit, Milk Moon Gallery, 307 E Colorado Ave #101A, Telluride, CO
2025 – The Heart of the Arts, Telluride Arts HQ, 135 West Pacific Avenue, Telluride, CO
2025 – The Townie Show, Space to Create, Ridgway, CO
2016 – Nkisi Project, 965 Gallery at the Center for Visual Arts, Denver, CO
2015 – Cluster – invitational group exhibition, Ice Cube Gallery, Denver, CO
2015 – Denver Artists @ The Armory, Brighton, CO
2014 – Nkisi Project Collaborative – part of exhibition Ingrained, Ice Cube Gallery, Denver, CO
2014 – The Collaborative Show, NEXT Gallery, Denver, CO
2013 – Habitat – Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN
2013 – Truth or Dare: Folklore and Mythologies – NEXT Gallery, Denver, CO
2011 – Collaborations and Cage Fights – A Group 3759 Project, Pirate Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
2011 – MFA Thesis Exhibition, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Bibliography
2025 – Shelter (published by Telluride Local Media), The House that Art and Tammi Built, Story by Samantha Tisdel Wright. Photographs by Eric Ming. Summer 2025.
2023 – Colorado Life Magazine, Colorado Creative Corridor, Story by Matt Masich. Photographs by Joshua Hardin, May/June
2022 – Shout Out Colorado, Meet Tammi Brazee – Visual Artist, July 6, 2022
2016 – Ruminate, Nowhere Near, Issue 40, Fall
2015 – Colorado Life Magazine, Marmots are not what they seem, Matt Masich, May/June
2014 – Loveland Reporter Herald, Marmots sneak into paintings by Tammi Brazee, Kenneth Jessen, March 18
2014 – Longmont Times-Call, Artist wants viewers to see selves in ‘Marmots’ exhibit, Quentin Young, February 27
Bio
While a hint of an accent reveals Maryland roots, Colorado has been Brazee’s home since 2001. Returning to college as a “late-bloomer,” she now holds two graduate degrees, one in environmental science and the other in visual art. This unusual combination of interests has had a profound influence on her work, keeping it suspended somewhere between recognizable reality and imaginary narrative. Brazee tends to investigate the human relationship with the natural world, its creatures, others, and ourselves. She makes social commentary with a sprinkling of humor, a nip of nonsense, a dash of self-deprecation, and a smidgen of insight.
Brazee became a full-time professional artist in her mid-forties after raising three amazing kids. Now well into her fifties, she is aware that well-seasoned women are valuable assets to society, and the wisdom they possess comes after living many years on this planet. Unfortunately, our culture often negates or disregards the wisdom of its elders, especially if those elders are women. But Brazee is a fiery soul who won’t yield so easily to this particular social and cultural message. She intends to keep creating provocative art for as long as she’s capable because she wants others to engage with what she creates and respond to what they perceive in it.
She believes in the power of art and that art with humor is a backdoor to personal insight. There’s something about laughter that loosens our resistance and penetrates our defenses. When art hits its mark, it can create positive change.
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