Vibrant and diverse, creative and innovative – Tallahassee’s cultural community has long been one of our greatest assets and part of the area’s enduring charm. Arts, culture and heritage are an integral part of the Tallahassee lifestyle. From galleries and historic landmarks to stage performances and music festivals, you can fill your days with one-of-a-kind […]
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Published in the Boston Globe – April 8, 2015 WHERE Legal Crossing WHAT A 15-foot-wide crimson painting of what looks like a mountain range but is actually a curvaceous woman lying on her side. It hangs in the Downtown Crossing restaurant’s dining room. WHOSE IDEA Legal Sea Foods honcho Roger Berkowitz commissioned the painting by Florida artist Paul […]
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By Allys Palladino-Craig – DIRECTOR | Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts A native of New York, Paul Tamanian has lived in Tallahassee, Florida since receiving his degree in interior design from Florida State University. Longing for more tactile involvement in the arts, he became– not surprisingly– a self taught, highly innovated ceramist, selected for […]
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By Randi Atwood – TALLAHASSEE DEMOCRAT | October 2011 Popular Tallahassee artist Paul Tamanian has no formal art training. In fact, he never even had an interest in art until he was almost 40, when he took a pottery class at Lafayette Park with his girlfriend. “I was terrible.” he laughs. “I couldn’t even center […]
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By Charlotte Richardson – AMERICAN STYLE MAGAZINE | Issue 48 | February 2006 It’s a comfortable spring day in Tallahassee, not yet Florida’s steamy “velvet glove” weather. It also seems like the perfect climate for Paul Tamanian’s semi-enclosed studio—until the artist dons his impermeable-fiber jumpsuit, attaches a respirator, lowers his goggles, pops on heavy-duty earplugs, […]
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