Bio:
Tammaro is a multidisciplinary artist working in digital and traditional, installation, public art,
and collaborative projects. Themes include The Natural World, Huron Wyandot(t-te) Traditional Narratives, the Body, ‘Mother Wit’ and reverence for “The Allness of Everything.”
Her ground is, Wyandot(t-te) Italian ~ animistic, exploring liminal spaces between the Spirit World and this one – the consciousness, and the collective/personal unconscious; Ancestral Memory (The Ancestral Present), and gifts of earth, water, and sky. Sacred geometry and ceremonial/cultural references are central to her body of work.
Media: oil & acrylic paint, pencil on canvas, music, poetry, and assemblage, often combined. Composes music for indoor installations (https://subductioncurrent.reverbnation.com/) and poetry for sculptural forms. Her work is deeply informed by cosmology, animistic practices, and the integration of Ancestral Memory into contemporary art and cultural expression, She emphasizes relationality, ceremony, and ecological consciousness. In her chapter The Ceremony of Reclaiming Agency through Wonder in Sacred Civics (Publisher: Routledge), Tàmmaro argues for the reclamation of agency by re-establishing a spiritual and cellular connection to the natural world and one’s People. She posits that by engaging in collective creative processes and traditional ceremonies, individuals can move beyond the constraints of dominant culture structures and patriarchal social paradigms. This process of “redreaming and restorying” is presented as a way to reawaken wonder and activate an embodied sense of agency within modern urban landscapes.
Tammaro has worked on several public Parks projects and with Toronto History Museums. and Landscape architects. She had four separate art shows in 2025, including ReDress at Scarborough Museum, May–June 2025, alongside the above-mentioned installations.
She has been recognized by the City’s Toronto Urban Design Awards winning three awards in 2025) and was included in Who’s Who for her contributions to public art, interdisciplinary practice and urban cultural initiatives.
Selected Public Works — Toronto, Canada
Greetings to the Natural World
Date: 2015
Location: St. James Town, Toronto
Type: Permanent mural (one of a triptych).
Materials: Exterior paint
Description: Part of Neighbourhood of Nations mural; reflects Indigenous cosmology and ecological narratives. Credit Line: Catherine Tammaro, 2015.
Ihati’ndouhchou’tenh / Clan Totems / Energetic Signatures
Date: 2021–2023
Location: Queen Street West, Toronto
Type: Permanent streetscape integration
Materials: 27 Cast bronze sidewalk inlays
Fabrication / Collaboration: CNC cut by Eunson Studios in collaboration with
PMA Landscape Architects. Interpretive Ground Markers. Description: Distributed network forming relational land-based system reflecting Indigenous worldviews and clans.
With extensive multi-community consultation.
Credit Line: Catherine Tàmmaro, 2021–2023.
Toronto Biennial of Art (High Park Program)
Date: 2022
Location: High Park, Toronto
Type: Participatory public program
Description: Workshops on beading, storytelling, and collective making.
Credit Line: Catherine Tàmmaro, 2022.
(Has lead multiple workshops on Indigenous ideology, through her own cretive practice).
Fire Over Water
Date: 2022, 2023, 2025
Locations: Crawford Lake (Conservation Halton, 2022) & Remote Gallery, Toronto (2023), Muskoka Discovery Centre 2025, and Blue Mountain Public Library 2025
Type: Multimedia Installation
Description: Explores Wyandot / Wendat women, land, continuity and Ancestral Memory; Crawford Lake emphasizes water, ecology, and ceremonial space. Working with the
Wendat Wandat Women’s Advisory Council and Professor Kathryn Magee Labelle
from 2013 to 2026
Credit Line: Catherine Tàmmaro, 2022–2026 and upcoming.
Autochthonous ~ Infinite Aspects of Connection (Norman Jewison Park)
Date: 2023–2024
Location: Norman Jewison Park, Toronto
Type: Permanent integrated public art/placemaking
Materials: Eight Corten columns – 14 ‘ tall, with accompanying spiritual and integrated elements, symbolic glyphs, in various metals, with reflective poetry.
In Wyandot: kyawakyehsta? “de awahsehsrogyahs (Where We Gather In Ceremony), these works mark the Ancestral sacred spaces of Indigenous Peoples and the shared presence of communities worldwide, within downtown Toronto. Concerned with matters of Spirit, Tammaro creates symbolic representations accessible to all, reflecting seen/unseen spaces, intersectionality, and infinite aspects of connection. The poetry and symbolic forms serve as talismanic Energetic Signatures, honouring land, waters, winds, the skyWorld, Motherwork, time, boundless love, and our place in the Natural World. Tàmmaro Acknowledges Wyandot Ancestral ties to Tionontati, Wendat, Attawandaron, Eriehronon
and Wenrohronon and Ontario as their Homeland.
Credit Line: Catherine Tàmmaro,
Autochthonous ~ Infinite Aspects of Connection, Norman Jewison Park
2023–2024.
The Burn
Date: 2023
Locations: Multi-site, Toronto
Type: Temporary participatory installation
Collaborators: Roger Mooking; Javid Jah, Umbereen Inayet
Description: Collective grief, healing, and ceremonial interaction.
Credit Line: Catherine Tàmmaro with collaborators, 2023.
Ayukwenodi (Pickering Sculpture)
Date: 2024–2025
Location: Pickering, Ontario
Type: Public sculpture
Materials: Fabricated sculptural elements: steel, stone, geometric form with spiral container
Collaborators: Jah Qube
Description: Celebrates Ancestral presence and spiritual connection to the songs of the land and finding one’s voice —collectively and singularly. Integrates poetic inscriptions and sacred symbolism.
Credit Line: Catherine Tàmmaro with Jah Cube, 2024–2025.
Pickering Civic Award
ukiʔ yahayǫh (Spirit of the Woods)
Date: 2026
Location: The WELL (Draper Park)
Type: Permanent public installation (multi-part)
Materials: Fabricated sculptural elements (Jah Qube); integrated poetic text
Description: Multi-part installation integrating sculpture and poetry, embedding language,
land-based knowledge and relational presence.
Credit Line: Tàmmaro, Fabricator- Jah Qube
Seven Points ~ Phase two: The WELL examining cosmic forms and earthy paradigms in spiral forms. Allowing movement, acknowledging time and the phases of life as we progress through them.
Credit Line: Tàmmaro, Fabricator- Jah Qube
Curatorial Note
Embedded, distributed, and relational interventions
Integration of ceremonial practice, Ancestral Memory, ecological consciousness
Use of language, sacred geometry, and animistic paradigms.
Toronto works demonstrate liminal connection between Spirit World and human experience, reflecting Ancestral continuity and the “Allness of Everything”.
With thanks to Dr. Kathryn Magee Labelle USask; History Department – Dr Craig Kopris, Linguist – Dr. Anders Sandberg, York University. Conservation Halton, Jah Qube, Nazarene Pope, Ihsan Alemdaroglu, Phil Ogison, Jeff Howard, Reid Robins, Laura Divilio, Sallie Cotter Andrews, Richard Zane Smith and so many more.