Member Spotlight: Tamara Robbins

Developing a Career as a Graphic Designer

Tamara started out having been introduced to various forms of art from elementary school, she took different art classes, and participated in programs from the Art Institute of Chicago.  She remembers, “From 1^st grade up until about 8^th grade, most teachers present art as an extracurricular activity, something that you play around with and then it’s tossed to the side.”

Her 4^th grade teacher would have someone come into her class from the art institute. Tamara  said, “I learned there were different periods of art from the impressionist period and the baroque art. This was something I thought very early on fascinated me and there was something about the whole structure of it. It gave art purpose and it gave it structure and it was more than something that kids play around with.”

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