Featured Artist at Creative Mornings Charleston

Written By Tatiana Tatum

What the title says. Folks at Creative Mornings CHS invited me to share stage with M.A.R.S.H. project on September, 25

Tatiana Tatum talks about her work for two minutes, pretending she is not terrified. Performance check - success!

The talk came with an opportunity to share my art with Creative Mornings Community!

I moved here from Russia in 2018. Beautiful nature exists in a lot of places. What got me about the Lowcountry is how much people here care about it.

At CreativeMornings I talked about play, mermaids who drink beer and wear ball caps and stretched-out T-shirts, and what I call medicine in the cake: taking something heavy like environmental grief and making it something you actually want to do.

Glad I got to share the morning with Marsh Project, who are proof this works.

Yes, I wore the mermaid outfit.

Tatiana Tatum

Tatiana Tatum is a Beaufort, South Carolina-based oil painter. She creates vibrant and playful oil paintings unified thematically by water and figure.

Born in Murmansk, Russia, Tatum immigrated to the United States in 2018, and received BA in Studio Art from University of South Carolina Beaufort (Bluffton, SC). Her signature series, Foggy Windows, capture fingertip doodles on condensation into enduring oil paintings. By preserving these temporary marks in oil paint, Tatum reframes them as containers for identity.

Tatum’s work has been exhibited at the Alexandria Museum of Art, the Long Beach Island Foundation, and Cornell University and was recently featured in Hyperallergic and Art Spiel. Regionally, she is represented at Thibault Gallery in Beaufort, where she was the featured artist in 2024. She has also exhibited with Alpha Mare Gallery in Savannah and participated in the Telfair Museums’ PULSE Art + Technology Festival. Her painting, Inside Out, is part of the permanent collection of the University of South Carolina Beaufort (USCB).

https://tatianatatum.com
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