Tamryn McDermott

Tamryn McDermott is a PhD Candidate in the Arts Administration, Education and Policy (AAEP) program with a concentration in Art Education. Tamryn is an artist, educator, and arts administrator with experience in museums, schools, organizations, and universities. She holds an MFA in Fibers and Sculpture from the University of Missouri, Columbia and an MA in Art History and Arts Administration from Tyler School of Art + Architecture at Temple University. Tamryn is currently a Graduate Teaching Associate within AAEP and has taught several online GE courses, mentored art education majors as a University Supervisor, and teaches the Introduction to Art Education course within the department. Tamryn has been a Graduate Teaching Orientation facilitator for the past two years for the Drake Institute and was also selected as the graduate teaching fellow in her department in 2022 - 2023.

Prior to arriving at Ohio State in fall 2020, she managed 9 temporary public art projects at Penn State University as part of the university's Campus Arts Initiative. Tamryn was the Traveling Exhibition Manager for Rooted, Revived, Reinvented: Basketry in America, a contemporary and historic basketry exhibition that traveled to 9 venues across the US from 2017 - 2019. As an artist, Tamryn works with materials (silk, wax, wood, steel, hand-made paper, waxed linen) and history as a way to investigate how we apply meaning to objects to tell and re-tell stories about our past. She uses museum display practices to consider how objects are contextualized to create new meaning through juxtaposition and framing. She has an upcoming exhibition at Wittenberg University in fall 2024 that will include research artifacts created by her and her participants during a dissertation study with pre-service art teachers.