TAMARA SAVIANO
Rooted in story. guided by strategy. senior-level guidance for meaningful creative and cultural work
Tamara Saviano Media helps artists, songwriters, creative entrepreneurs, and arts organizations turn creative vision into clear strategy, stronger stories, and aligned action.
Founded by Grammy-winning producer, award-winning filmmaker, author, creative strategist, and cultural storyteller Tamara Saviano, the company brings together decades of experience in music, media, artist management, legacy stewardship, event production, marketing, facilitation, and narrative strategy.
Tamara’s work lives at the intersection of story, strategy, history, music, leadership, and culture. She has guided major artists, produced award-winning records and live events, directed an SXSW award-winning documentary, advised on national media projects, built nonprofit cultural initiatives, and helped artists and organizations clarify what they stand for, where they are going, and how to bring others with them.
At Tamara Saviano Media, the work is both practical and deeply human:
Helping individual artists sort through the puzzle pieces of their creative life and build a roadmap forward.
Helping arts organizations generate better ideas, create safer conversations, align stakeholders, and move from complexity to action.
Helping legacy, cultural, and mission-driven projects honor the past while engaging new audiences.
This is creative strategy grounded in real-world experience.
Services Overview
1. Strategy Roadmap for Individual Artists
A focused strategy engagement for artists who need clarity and direction.
The Strategy Roadmap is a flat-fee engagement designed to help you step back from the day-to-day and look clearly at your creative work, career direction, audience, opportunities, and challenges.
This process is for artists, writers, musicians, and creative entrepreneurs who are asking:
What should I do next?
How do I make sense of all my ideas?
Is my current strategy working?
How do I attract more of the right audience, customers, fans, or opportunities?
What story am I telling about my work?
Where am I wasting energy?
What would a clear roadmap look like?
2. Facilitation for Arts Organizations
Better ideas. Stronger alignment. Healthier conversations.
Arts organizations often face complex challenges involving mission, programming, audience development, funding, leadership, community relationships, internal culture, and long-term sustainability.
Traditional brainstorming can fall short. The loudest voices dominate. Good ideas get lost. People hesitate to challenge assumptions. Boards struggle to align. Teams move too quickly to solutions before fully understanding the problem.
Tamara Saviano Media designs and facilitates creative strategy sessions that help organizations think more expansively, collaborate more effectively, and make better decisions.
This Work Is Ideal For:
Strategic planning sessions
Board retreats
Leadership team alignment
Program development
Audience development conversations
Mission and vision work
Creative problem-solving sessions
Organizational change conversations
Stakeholder convenings
Brand, story, or positioning discussions
Drop me a note at TSaviano61@icloud.com and let’s work together!
This is wisconsin
In 2026, after many years away, I am returning to Wisconsin with fresh eyes and a full heart to travel my beloved home state, listen closely, learn respectfully, and document the people and places that make Wisconsin what it is today. This Is Wisconsin, a statewide, multi-media storytelling project includes a YouTube series and a book and celebrates the people, places, history, culture, and spirit of Wisconsin. Together, these projects will create a contemporary portrait of Wisconsin in 2026.
Inspired by Robert E. Gard’s 1969 oral history This Is Wisconsin, I’ll travel throughout Wisconsin from June through October documenting communities across the state through interviews, oral histories, on-location filmmaking, local history, and cultural observation. At its heart, this project is a love letter to Wisconsin—rooted in connection, heritage, place, and understanding of who we are, what we care about and how we love this place and each other in 2026.
This is not a project driven by headlines or Instagram photos. The first season of the YouTube series will focus on stories of love in its many forms: Love of community, love of the land, love of the arts, love of family, romantic love, friendship, and the many other unique, surprising and powerful ways love shows up in our lives. The goal is to create something uplifting, beautifully made, historically meaningful, and lasting.
This Is Wisconsin the book is a contemporary portrait of Wisconsin—stories, local history, interviews, and hidden and not-so-hidden destinations statewide. This book is intended to be more than a travel or culture book. I hope it will stand as a meaningful record and oral history of Wisconsin in this moment.
SPONSORSHIP ASK
This Is Wisconsin is currently seeking a circle of founding sponsors, in-kind partners, and regional collaborators to help bring the project to life.
For a pitch deck and more information contact Tamara at TSaviano61@icloud.com
POETS AND DREAMERS:
My Life in Americana Music
The rise of Americana music as told by the ultimate insider . . .
Part memoir, part oral history, Poets and Dreamers: My Life in Americana Music traces Tamara Saviano’s remarkable journey through the rise of the Americana music genre. Spanning more than three decades, Saviano unfolds the story of Americana—country music’s bohemian cousin—from her unique perspectives as a journalist, historian, Grammy-winning music producer, filmmaker, and artist emissary.
The first woman president of the Americana Music Association and producer of the early Americana Honors and Awards shows at Nashville’s storied Ryman Auditorium, Saviano takes readers behind the scenes for some of the most significant moments in Americana history. Poets and Dreamers illuminates the exceptional Americana community: an ever-expanding yet close-knit circle of friends and unsung heroes devoted to the success of roots music and its artists.
Highlights include interviews with artists and colleagues and memories of special events, concerts, and day-to-day life with singers, songwriters, and musicians. Tender stories recalling Saviano’s close relationships with two of her most enduring clients, iconic songwriters Kris Kristofferson and Guy Clark, round out this singular historical work. Including photographs of significant people and moments in Americana music, Poets and Dreamers: My Life in Americana Music will entertain and inform a worldwide readership of fans, students, and scholars of Americana and roots music.
Without Getting Killed or Caught is the true story of Guy Clark, who struggles to write poetic, while balancing a complicated marriage with wife Susanna, and a deep friendship with Townes Van Zandt, on whom Susanna forged a passionate dependence. Written by Tamara Saviano and Bart Knaggs. Produced and Directed by Tamara Saviano and Paul Whitfield.