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Tamara Clark brings a range of experiences, skills and knowledge to her work as an illustrator and designer, the scope of which has focused her vision on the importance of scientific and artistic collaboration in raising awareness about the issues facing the natural world. In the Sciences, Tamara has worked as a field assistant with Common Terns (Great Gull Island Project), collected foresty data for a long-term ecological research station (University of Maine and the Holt Research Forest), and measured carbon flux in arctic tundra plants for the the Ecosystems Center at the MBL. In education, she's worked with middle school children as a naturalist (Queens College Center) and taught scientific illustration to young adults. In design, Tamara was employed as a reprographics technician for the MBL, as a web designer and database manager for the BioCurrents Research Center (MBL), and as a freelance illustrator for the Smithsonian, the Encyclopedia of Life and many other institutions, labs and non-profit groups. Tamara also produces a line of cards and prints of local marine life and threatened species from around the world which highlight their unique beauty and describe their ecological role in the interconnected web of life. View cards and prints >>. She now makes her home on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. |
| Current and Recent PROJECTS: ~ Spring, 2010 Course instructor for Falmouth Art Center. Introduction to Natural Science Illustration. From seashells to pinecones to horseshoe crabs, this class will focus on illustrating the natural forms around us, concentrating on drawing "what you see" rather than "what you think you see" in a particular subject - exploring lines, light and shadow. Three 4-week sessions through February 3, 2010 Wednesdays 4:30-6. Ages 10 to adult. Register! >> ~ Guest instructor for the Semester at Sea in February, 2010. Helping to bring illustration into the Biology classroom. Working with SES professor Jeff Schell and Woods Hole illustrator/ instructor Julia Child. Development and Curation of "Natural Science Illustration: Darwin to Digital". September 21-October 31, 2009. Highfield Hall, Falmouth, MA An exhibit featuring juried works by 21 members of the New England Chapter of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators, Historical images from the MBLWHOI Library Rare Book Room and student work by Julia Child's illustration class. Talks and workshops also offered. VISIT EXHIBITION WEBSITE for details>>> President and Program Coordinator for the New England Chapter of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators Visit Chapter website >> ~ Illustration and design for the Encyclopedia of Life: an expansive website which aims to create web pages for every species on the planet with a high level of interactivity and information sources. ~ Design and development of the Semester in Environmental Science website, a college- level fall Semester at the MBL's Ecosystems Center. The SES program equips the next generation of scientists and policy makers with the knowledge and skills to address today's complex environmental issues. ~ Illustration for the Ocean Alliance, a non-profit organization dedicated to whale protection and conservation. From the research vessel the Odyssey, founder Roger Payne and Executive Officer Iain Kerr collected a broad spectrum of data on whales and ocean life relating particularly to toxicology, behavior, bioacoustics, and genetics. The image will be used in outreach material describing pollution sources and their accumulation in marine organisms. ~ Web design and maintenance, design and database management for the BioCurrents Research Center (BRC) (NIH:NCCR) at the MBL. The BRC specializes in the development and utilization of a range of technologies to examine the chemical profiles of the living cell, specifically within the complex and dynamic boundary layer. ~ Illustration and database management for the Pharmabase project, also through the BRC. Pharmabase targets the action and use of pharmacological compounds in modifying protein function, while revealing molecular relationships and linking out to related databases and sites. ~ Traditional illustrations of whole fish and osteology for the division of Fishes at the Smithsonian's National Musuem of Natural History. view samples >> |
CLIENTS: Baruch Marine Laboratory, Encyclopedia of Life, Harvard University Press, Marine Biological Laboratory, Monteray Bay Aquarium Research Institute, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Nikos Laboratory, The Oceanaire Seafood Room, Ocean Alliance, On the Water Magazine, Perseus Books, Sierra Club, Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania |
| SKILLS and techniques: Traditional: pen and ink, carbon and pastel dust, graphite, watercolor, acrylic, colored pencil, oil, scratchboard Digital: file formatting, image creation, editing and manipulation, technical illustration Graphics software: Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign and DreamWeaver, GoLive, Flash, Powerpoint. Comfortable with both Mac and PC platforms Design: Experienced with page, logo, exhibit and web design, concept development and press standards. Freelance experience Production of illustrations and designs for books, journals, exhibits and the Internet using digital and traditional techniques. Subjects range from micro-organisms to processes and ecosystems. |
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Contact: info@tamaraclark.com |
| "In every object of nature, there lies something of the marvelous" -- Aristotle |