Tammy Renee Brackett
Education
BA Fine Arts Alfred University MFA Electronic Integrated Art, Alfred University School of Art & Design
Teaching Overview
Visiting Assistant Professor-CAA Fellow, Expended Media, Alfred University - School of Art & Design 2006-07 Assistant, Associate, Professor of Digital Media & Animation, Alfred State College, 2008 - Present
Professional Experience
2015 – Present Professor - Digital Media and Animation, Alfred State College, Alfred, NY
2014 – 2015 Associate Professor - Digital Media and Animation, Alfred State College, Alfred, NY
2008 – 2014 Assistant Professor - Digital Media and Animation, Alfred State College, Alfred, NY
Spring 2008 Instructor - Digital Media and Animation, Alfred State College, Alfred, NY
2006 – 2007 Visiting Assistant Professor CAA Fellow - Expanded Media, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY
Research
Tammy Renée Brackett creates artwork that poses epistemological questions regarding identity, categorization, and location. Her most recent work explores the mortality of both humans and deer, what they leave behind after death, and how these remnants can confront traditional understandings of identity. She employs the traditional craft techniques used by her mother and grandmothers (quilting, tatting, and rug hooking) while absorbing the deer hunting culture that surrounds her in rural Western New York State.
Her traditional crafting techniques are often combined with digital drawing, animation, video, and laser cutting/etching. The deer hides used in Brackett’s work are salvaged from deer hit by cars and hunters who would have otherwise discarded them. She tans them herself using environmentally responsible and sustainable methods.
Publications and Events
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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2020 Remnants, Llewellyn Gallery, Alfred, NY
2014 Deer Dear (C), SUArt Galleries, Syracuse, NY
2012 Field Guide, Earlville Opera House, Earlville, NY
2012 Field Guide (C), TONY 2012, SUArt Galleries, Syracuse, NY
2007-08 Voco limen (C), Beyond/In WNY, CEPA Gallery – Window on Main Street, Buffalo, NY
2007 Clio cognomina (C), Beyond/In WNY, CEPA Gallery – Underground Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2006 Biographia (C), Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art, Alfred, NY.
2005 Regarding X, Studio 354, Rochester, NY
2005 12-5-2005, Alfred University - Holmes Auditorium, Alfred, NY
2003 Spider-Goat, Alfred University - BAFA Studios, Alfred, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
(C) indicates catalogue
2021 Americas 2021: All Media (C), Northwest Arts Center, Minot, ND
2021 Southern Tier Biennial (C), Tri-County Arts Council Gallery, Olean, NY
2021 Made in NY 2021, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY
2021 67th Rochester-Finger Lakes, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
2019 Faculty Exhibition, Alfred State - Llewellyn Gallery, Alfred, NY
2016 Faculty Exhibition, Alfred State - Llewellyn Gallery, Alfred, NY
2014 Ideas_14 (C), International Digital Media & Arts Association Annual Conference, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT
2010 in Fluent all, Alfred State - Llewellyn Gallery, Alfred, NY
2009 IDEAS09: Arts at the Digital Edge, Ball State University Museum of Art, Muncie, IN
2009 FILE Hipersonica Screening - FILE 2009 - Electronic Language International Festival, SESI' Cultural Centre, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
2009 Invitational Womens' Exhibition, Elmira College - George Waters Gallery, Elmira, NY
2008 Migrations & Proud Art World Cultural Conference, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
2008 Beyond Boundaries, Empire State College - The Central Arts Gallery, East Syracuse, NY
2008 Evolutionary Girls Club, Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo, NY.
2008 - 09 17 Days, Gwen Frostic School of Art - Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo MI,
University at Buffalo - Center for the Arts, Buffalo, NY
DMA Gallery - Alfred State College, Alfred, NY
CEPA Gallery - Buffalo, NY
2007 Crossing Over (C), The Annexe Galleries - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Post-Museum - Singapore
2007 Buy Regional!, Collectors Gallery - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2007 International Not Still Art Festival, Micro Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Insatiable Streams: I.E.A. 10 years of the Institute for Electronic Arts (C), B.S.1, Beijing, China
2007 Tammy Renée Brackett and Wade Kram, Pratt at Munson-Williams-Proctor School of Art Gallery, Utica, NY
2007 Sandin Exhibition, New York Electronic Arts Festival, Roulette, New York, NY
2006 Alfred MFA on 25th St., J. Cacciola Gallery, New York, NY
2006 Converge, Rochester Institute of Technology - SPAS Gallery, Rochester, NY
2005 Invisible Intersections: The Body + Science, Cazenovia College Art Gallery, Cazenovia, NY
2005 Concept Create Cure, Forum Theatre, Binghamton, NY
2005 Beyond/In Western New York (C), Carnegie Art Center, Buffalo, NY.
2005 Stereo Visions (C), A/V Space, Rochester, NY
2004 (self)determination, The Gallery at Deep Listening Center, Kingston, NY
2003 Media Shower Show, The Brickhous Café, Denton, TX
2003 Evolutionary Girls Club, Agetsuchi Fureai Hall - Matsumoto, Japan
Zagreb Pride Exhibition - Zagreb, Croatia
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Brackett, Tammy Renee. "Language as a Complex System." Liminal: Spaces in Between Visible/Invisible, Ed. Eaton, and Jacobson, Evolutionary Girls. Rochester: 2007.
Brackett, Tammy Renée. Biographia. Hornell, NY: T.R. Brackett. 2006.
Brackett, Tammy Renée, and Jean A. Cardinale. Mind the Gap: Art + Science. Hornell, NY: T. R. Brackett. 2006.
Honors and Awards
College Art Association Professional Development Fellow, 2005.