Wanaree Tanner is an award winning artist and instructor, with a love for illustration and a fascination with world mythologies. She started working in metal clay in 2008 and quickly became obsessed with turning two dimensional drawings into three dimensional forms. When copper clay hit the open market, she bought her first pack and never looked back. After years of experimenting and dreaming, she’s feels she’s finally able to bring the forms lurking in her mind into reality. She has also recently taken up the art of tattooing, combining her secret passion for stippling and pointillism with inking skin.

She travels all over the world teaching her techniques, is a contributor for Metal Clay Artist Magazine, Art Jewelry, Metal Clay Today, and is currently the video editor for MCAM’s resource library,

and tattoos out of Owl’s Club Tattoo Studio in Quincy, IL.

1. ‣“The Gate” announced as a finalist in the 2013 Saul Bell Design Award
   

   

1. ‣“Sterling Shield Ring” article published in the 2012 winter addition of Metal Clay Artist Magazine
   

1. ‣Cover feature in the 2012 summer edition of Metal Clay Artist Magazine, artist profile featured
   

1. ‣Cover feature in the 2012 Art Jewelry Metal Clay special edition, article published
   

1. ‣6/03/12- Best in Jewelry at Columbia Art in Stephens Park
   

1. ‣4/01/12- Award of Excellence at the Queeny Park Art Fair
   

1. ‣2012- “Tara’s Eyes” featured in the Firemountain Gems 2012 ad campaign
   

1. ‣11/11- “Fion McCumhil” places 1st in Metal Clay Today “Coming Unhinged” Design Challenge
   

1. ‣ 10/11- Holly Ginsberg Gage’s 2012 Metal Clay Calendar released, “Anam Cara” appears in May.
   

1. ‣ 9/10/11 - “Chos Khor’Kyi Lo: The Wheel of Transformation” wins purchase award from Cedarhurst Center for the                           Arts, and enters the permanent collection of the Mitchell Museum.
   

1. ‣ 9/9/11-  Best in Jewelry, Highland, IL Art in the Park
   

1. ‣ 9/3/11 - 2nd place in 3D at Art in Queeny Park, GSLAA, St. Louis, MO
   

1. ‣ Fall/11- “Freeform Bezel Setting” article published in Metal Clay Artist Magazine
   

1. ‣ Fall/11- “What’s Your Inspiration?” feature in Metal Clay Academy newsletter
   

1. ‣ 7/16/11- “Anam Cara” wins the Presidential Grand Prize in Art Clay World’s North American Design Competition.
   

1. ‣ 8/11- Two pieces included in the final PMC Annual
   

1. ‣ 8/4- Featured in Daily Art Muse
   

1. ‣ 6/11-  “New Direcitons: Powdered Metalurgury in a Sheet Metal World” published, 3 pieces included.
   

1. ‣ 4/10-  3rd place 3D Art in Queeny Park, GSLAA, St. Louis, MO
   

1. ‣ 2/11 - “When Apart, Always Together” wins 2nd place in Metal Clay Today’s “Show me the Love” competition.