Tamar Beja
Senior Laboratory Mechanician
Email: tamar@berkeley.edu
Office: 265c Kroeber Hall
Office hours: by appointment
Tamar Beja is a printmaker whose interest in this medium is both technical and conceptual. In particular, she cares about Prints' role in how visual ideas shape society and ideology. She likes the egalitarian nature of print, and its ability to reach a wider audience, while at the same time allowing for a physical, material experience (as opposed to digital, ethereal, disembodied– you won’t find her on Instagram). Her own projects, which often incorporate humor and plants, are motivated by a desire to make things to share with people; she considers Print a community-building activity and medium.
Tamar runs the intaglio, lithography, relief, screenprint, and riso facilities at UC Berkeley, where she helps students in printmaking classes as well as graduate students and advanced students in Print. She loves to consult printmaking students on their individual projects and help them expand their practice. In 2008, she established the annual Student Print Sale. She'll get after you for eating in the studios. That's Henry on the right in the photograph.