Tara Fay Coleman is a largely self-taught artist who grew up on the East Side of Buffalo, New York, and moved to Millvale, Pennsylvania, with her family when she was in high school. She studied fashion and retail management at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh.
The mother, writer and curator is a multidisciplinary artist who concentrates on a public-facing practice with audiences and communities who are rarely the subjects of museum and gallery spaces. Her work is intentionally absent of high academic and art speech.
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She explores themes of identity, motherhood, Black womanhood and taking up space. Her practice mines her own lived experiences for subject matter, with a goal to intertwine her life with her work.
You started on your art journey as a curator. What was your mission?
My mission is always to …