Tarri Driver: artist, author, illustrator

I’m a lifelong creative artist with a wide range of independent, academic, professional and therapeutic arts experience. My decade of work as an art therapist in Nashville (in public schools and a children’s hospital)—along with my experience teaching college-level art therapy courses and later years as an independent art instructor—inform both my worldview and my art. Since relocating from Nashville to a small town in East Tennessee, I have retired from my career as an art therapist and re-embraced artmaking from my home studio, where I write, illustrate, publish original work, design commissions and devise new creative projects.

I am currently writing and illustrating the third children’s book in my Lunar Mooner Lula series, and a new book of short stories for adults, (working title) Pursuing Terra Firma. I also have short stories being published in late summer and fall 2024 issues of: Wising Up Press, Tiny Spoon, Quarter(ly), Five on the Fifth and Literally Stories.

Curiosity is my main motivator, and through my artmaking, I hope to make some sense of the world while I defiantly pursue truth, provoke thoughtful reflection and cultivate empathy.

For more detailed info, check out my CV.

***Collaboration with Nashville Performance Artist (and dear friend) Sarah Saturday!

Letters to Our Unborn Children: An Exploration of a Woman’s Decision to Remain Child-Free by Choice is a collaborative visual arts project led by artists Sarah Saturday and Tarri Driver. Development and production will span several months and will culminate with a public exhibition in October 2024 at COOP Gallery in Nashville, Tennessee.

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