Tara Coyt is an award-winning author, curator, film producer, painter, and photographer. She began creating art with nature photography in 2017, then expanded to abstract and street photography. Tara began creating abstract paintings in 2021 using acrylic on board and canvas.
Juried exhibits include: Atlanta Photography Group – Choice (2024), Concepts (2024), Belonging, (2023-2024); Avondale Arts Alliance – Bountiful Earth (2024), Seeds of Liberation (2024); Emma Darnell Aviation Museum – EmpowerHer (2024); Georgia Nature Photographers Association / Roswell Fine Art Alliance – Double Vision (2024); Roswell Roots – Making Our Mark (2nd Prize award 2024), STAND (2023); DunwoodyFine Art Association - Sights & Insights (2023).
Tara’s photographs have also appeared in the book “Black American Voices: Shared Culture, Values, and Emotions,” as well as in print and digital media. She has curated African art, contemporary art, and photography for books and exhibits.
Tara produced the film, “Joe Barry Carroll” which was commissioned by the South Fulton Institute in 2023. She received a project grant from Alternate Roots and the Andrew Mellon Foundation in 2021 to produce a film inspired by her book, "Real Talk About LGBTQIAP." In 2020 Tara received the Next Generation Indie Book Award and was nominated for the Georgia Author of the Year award for, "Real Talk About LGBTQIAP." Other recognitions include Atlanta Business League Super Tuesday Outstanding Business Achievement award, and Atlanta Daily World Women of Excellence.
Memberships have included Alternate Roots, the Atlanta Film Festival Screening Committee, Atlanta Photography Group, Atlanta Writers Club board of directors, Decatur Book Festival board of directors, Georgia Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (GA NMWA), GLAAD Media Institute, PEN America, SE Center for Photography, Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum, and Working Title Playwrights.
Tara earned a BS, Natural Sciences, Xavier University and an MBA, Marketing, The Ohio State University. She is from Cleveland, OH and currently resides in Atlanta, GA.
StatementI am an emerging, self-taught artist focusing on photography and abstract painting. I create art that stirs feelings and compels the viewer to linger and ponder what the piece depicts, and wonder what else exists. In photographs of nature and people I share the beauty of life in its many forms and stages from creation to maturity to the aftermath of brokenness.
In nature I seek to capture what has been created, merged, discarded, and/or rebuilt. When people are the subject, I seek to capture elements of individuality and our shared humanity. The art reveals that beauty exists in what may initially be viewed as displeasing, unpleasant, or mundane.
I seek to inspire viewers to take a closer look at the life around them.
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