muralist | chalkboard artist |
teaching artist
Tammy Barnes is a muralist, teaching artist and chalkboard artist in Washington, DC.
She teaches art to children and youth of greater Baltimore at the Chesapeake Arts Center. She has taught visual arts to older adults through the DC Commission for Arts and Humanities Create & Thrive! program. She is the in-house chalkboard artist for a locally owned and operated bakery in Washington, DC, Bread Furst, at their second café location inside The Phillips Collection, and other local businesses, such as Andy's Pizza, Open City National Cathedral, and The Artemis.
Her mural work is featured inside Neval Thomas Elementary in DC's Ward 7, in DC area restaurants owned and operated by Tryst Trading Company, at the headquarters for Southwest BID, and in the Metropolitan Police Department’s 5th District Station in Northeast DC.
Tammy is deeply passionate about community engagement through the arts and has facilitated community murals at local festivals and as volunteer service projects in DC. Tammy supports a sustainable footprint in all her mural work through the use of recycled interior/exterior paints sourced from a local non-profit, Community Forklift, as a way to re-invest local infrastructure through environmental stewardship.
She is Treasurer of the Board of Directors of Artbae Foundation and is a member of several regional artist societies.