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Tom Eckert

 
 

EDUCATION



1971

 

 

MFA, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona  
Graduate Teaching Assistant, 1969-71
 
1966

 

 

BFA, Arizona State University, "With Distinction"

 
1963

AA, Phoenix College, Phoenix, Arizona

 
1978

 

 

Advanced Study, California State University  
Northridge, California

 
 

 

 

Professional Activities, Since 1989

 
GRANTS


1999 Visual Arts Fellowship: Three-Dimensional Media, Arizona Commission on the Arts
 
1998 Safe Finishing Materials and Protective Equipment for the
Three- Dimensional Wood Artist: Part Two,
College of Fine Art, Arizona State University
 
1996 Windgate Charitable Foundation grant 
Funds used for a project at Arizona State University
 
1993 Western States Arts Federation - National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
 
1991 Visual Arts Fellowship: Three-Dimensional Media  
Arizona Commission on the Arts
 
1990 Arts/Social Sciences/Humanities Grant for Tenured Faculty Safe Finishing Materials and Protective Equipment for the Three-Dimensional Wood Artist  
Arizona State University
 
1989 Western States Arts Federation - National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
 
COMMISSIONS 


2001 Seven Plus One, Lattie and Elva Coor, Phoenix, Arizona
 
2000 In the Cards, Sculpture was commissioned by Arizona Commission on the Arts and presented as one of the Governor's awards. Auspicious Maneuver, Marcia Docter, New York City
 
1997 Seven Boscs: Brush, Dish & Dice, Dr. Gary Fuchs, Kentucky
 
1995 Still Life with Martyle's purse  
Jerry & Martyle Reinsdorf 
Scottsdale, Chicago
 
1994 Quarter Pounder with Cheese  
McDonald's Corporation 
Oakbrook, Illinois
 
1993 Still Life with Watering Can  
Sheldon and Sylvia Lavin 
Tucson, Chicago
 
1992 Still Life with Sheldon's Cigar  
OSI Industries, Inc. 
1215 Corporate Boulevard 
Aurora, Illinois
 
1989 Finalist, Percent for Art Competition  
Terminal 4, Sky Harbor International Airport  
Phoenix, Arizona
 
1988 Golden Delicious  
McDonald's Corporation 
Oakbrook, Illinois
 
EXHIBITIONS: ONE-PERSON


1999 Tom Eckert: Still Life Series, West Valley Art Museum, Surprise, Arizona

Tom Eckert: More Illusions, Gallery Materia, Scottsdale, Arizona
 
1996 Tom Eckert: Wood Sculpture  
Joanne Rapp Gallery 
The Hand and the Spirit 
Scottsdale, Arizona
 
1992 Master's Choice  
Tempe Art Center 
Tempe, Arizona 

Tom Eckert 
Himovitz Miller Gallery 
Sacramento, CA 

Frozen Illusions 
Joanne Rapp Gallery 
The Hand and the Spirit 
Scottsdale, Arizona

 
EXHIBITIONS: GROUP


2006 PAN Amsterdam Art Fair (Galerie Lieve Hemel)
 
2002 Re- presenting Representation V, Arnot Art Museum, New York. Invitational
 
2001 2001: A Cultural Odyssey Presenters Exhibition, Memorial Union Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. Invitational

Defining Craft: Collecting for the Millennium, Houston Center for Contemporary Crafts, an inaugural show that traveled from the American Craft Museum, New York.

Diversity and Exploration: New Forms in Wood, Curated by Rybon Horn, R. Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri. Invitational

Reality Check: Representational Art in Unexpected Media, The Ohio Crafts Museum, Columbus, Ohio. Invitational

 
2000 Distinguished Works by Innovative Minds, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Invitational

Momento Mori - Contemporary Still Life, Tom Eckert, Robert Peterson, John Rise, Lizardi/Harp Gallery, Los Angeles, California. Invitational

A to Z Art by the Letter!, Arizona Museum for Youth, Mesa, Arizona. Invitational

Horizons 2000, Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, Connecticut. Invitational

Transformation: Contemporary Works in Wood, The Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, Ohio. Invitational

Defining Craft American Craft Museum, New York. Invitational

Rings of Time, Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport - Terminal 3, Phoenix, Arizona. Traveling show

The Little Bowl Show, Saskatchewan Craft Council, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Invitational

Group show, Michael Himovitz Gallery, Sacramento, California. Invitational

 
1999

Artful Wood, The Irving Lipton Collection, Las Angeles County Art Museum, Las Angeles, California Invitational

Transformation, Elizabeth R. Founder’s Prize, The Society for Contemporary Crafts, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Competition

Silent Things, Secret Things: Still Life from Rembrant to the Millennium, Albuquerque Museum, New Mexico. Invitational

Rings of Time: Wooden Visions for the Millennium, West Valley Art Museum, Surprise, Arizona. Invitational

Sculpture, Objects and Functional Art: S.O.F.A., New York, Represented by Mobilia Gallery. International

Book Art, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Invitational

 
1998 Asia Pacific Applied Arts Forum   
Selected to represent the United States  
Work displayed on the World Wide Web  
Organized by the University of California, Davis  

International, Invitational   
Group show   
Sky Harbor International Airport, Terminal Three  
Phoenix, Arizona. Invitational  

Sculpture Objects and Functional Art: S.O.F.A.  
Represented by The Hand and the Spirit Gallery  
Chicago, Illinois. International  

Group wood show    
Sky Harbor International Airport, Terminal Three  
Phoenix, Arizona. Invitational  

Sculpture Objects and Functional Art: S.O.F.A.  
Represented by Joanne Rapp Gallery  
Chicago, Illinois. International

 
1997 Food, Glorious Food: Artists and Eating  
Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts 
Racine, Wisconsin. Invitational 

Grumbacher Still Life 
Arrowmont Faculty Show 
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts 
Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Invitational

 
1996 Just add Water - Artists and the Aqueous World  
Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts 
Racine, Wisconsin. Invitational 

Sculpture Objects and Functional Art: S.O.F.A.  
Represented by Joanne Rapp Gallery 
Miami, Florida. International 

MM/342 loaned by the Arizona State University Art Museum 
Transportation show at the Museum for Youth 
Mesa, Arizona

 
1995 Lets Play House: Artists and the Domestic Environment  
Charles A. Wustum Museum 
Racine, Wisconsin. Invitational 

Wood Sculpture: Craft and Symbolism 
The Ohio Craft Museum Columbus, Ohio and 
20 North Gallery Toledo, Ohio. Invitational 

Sculpture Objects and Functional Art:: S.O.F.A. 
Represented by Joanne Rapp Gallery 
Miami, Florida. International 

Sculpture Objects and Functional Art: S.O.F.A. 
Represented by Joanne Rapp Gallery 
Chicago, Illinois. International

 
1994 A Contemporary Wood & Fiber Exhibition  
Prescott Fine Arts Association 
Prescott, Arizona. Invitational
 
1993 Year of American Craft: A Celebration of the Creative Works of the Hand  
Ornament, The White House Christmas tree 
Washington, DC Invitational
 
1992 The Group Plus  
Okun Gallery 
Santa Fe, New Mexico. Invitational 

Winter's Edge 
Okun Gallery 
Santa Fe, New Mexico. Invitational 

Crafts National 26 
Zoller Gallery 
Pennsylvania State University 
University Park, Pennsylvania 

International New Art Forms Exposition 
Joanne Rapp/The Hand & the Spirit Gallery 
Navy Pier 
Chicago, Illinois. Invitational 

Woodware 
Galeria, Mesa Arts Center 
Mesa, Arizona. Invitational 

Turned Visions 
The Gallery at Craft Alliance 
St. Louis, Missouri.

 
1991 Pattern and Images  
Art Museum and Galleries 
Northern Arizona University 
Flagstaff, Arizona. Invitational 

Art: Furniture for the Mind 
Maveety Gallery 
Salishan, Oregon. Invitational 

All Round Arizona 
An Invitational Sculpture Exhibition 
Art Museum and Galleries 
Northern Arizona University 
Flagstaff, Arizona. Invitational 

Working Wood 
Maveety Gallery 
Portland, Oregon. Invitational 

Contemporary American Wood 
Banaker Gallery 
Walnut Creek, California. Invitational

 
1990 Four-Person Invitational Exhibition  
Nevada Museum of Art  
Reno, Nevada  

Maveety Gallery  
Chicago International New Art Forms Exposition  
Navy Pier  
Chicago, Illinois. Invitational  

New Forms in Furniture  
Tory Folliard Gallery  
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Invitational  

Signs of Support: Furniture Forms in Contemporary American Art  
Kohler Arts Center  
Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Invitational  

Furnishing As Art  
New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art  
New Harmony, Indiana. Invitational  

Crafted Statements  
The Gallery at Craft Alliance  
St. Louis, Missouri. Invitational

 
1989 Imagination  
Paul.Luster Gallery 
San Francisco, California. Invitational 

Maveety Gallery 
Salishan 
Gleneden Beach, Oregon 

Ten Years After 
Tenth anniversary celebration of the Yuma Symposium 
Yuma Art Center 
Yuma, Arizona. Invitational

 
1988 Eight Arizona Artists - New Work  
Coconino Center for the Arts 
Flagstaff, Arizona. Invitational 

California Art-Furniture 
Elaine Potter Gallery 
San Francisco, California. Invitational 

Electronic Images 
Cafe' Casino 
Scottsdale, Arizona 

Arizona: Past, Present, Future 
Arizona State Capitol 
Phoenix, Arizona 

21st. Bradley National Print and Drawing Exhibition 
Bradley University 
Peoria, Illinois 

The Brown Symposium National Exhibition 
("Pandora's Box: Computer Generated Art") 
Southwestern University 
Georgetown, Texas 

Computer Art Invitational 
Yavapai College Art Gallery 
Prescott, Arizona

 
SELECTED  COLLECTIONS  


  The American Craft Museum, New York

The Irving Lipton Collection, Eccino, California

The Robyn and John Horn collection, Little Rock, Arkansas

The Ron & Anita Wornick collection, San Francisco, California

The Robyn Horn collection, Little Rock, Arkansas

Los Angeles County Art Museum, Los Angeles, California

The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Represented in the permanent National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) archive documenting the Visual Artists Fellowship Program.  

Wustum Museum of Fine Arts,  Racine, Wisconsin

McDonald's Corporation (three pieces), Oakbrook, Illinois

Arizona State University Art Museum, Nelson Fine Arts Center, Tempe, Arizona

Coconino Center for the Arts, Prescott, Arizona

Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, Minnesota

El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas

Tucson Museum of Art (two pieces), Tucson, Arizona

Yuma Fine Arts Center (two pieces), Yuma, Arizona

 
PUBLISHED WORKS 


 

Seven Plus One, American Craft, Vol. 60, No. 6, (December/January 2001), Page 74

Artists in Residence, Arizona Foothills, (October 2000), page 109, (article by Penelope Merican and photo by Casandra Tomel

Five Covered Boscs, American Craft, Vol. 60, No. 2, (April/May 2000), page 58

Five Covered Boscs, Woodworker West, Vol. 13, No.1, (January/February 2000)

Woodworker's Journal, Volume 24, Number 2, March/April 2000, page 13 (article and photo)

Tom Eckert:  Visual Arts Fellowship in Three-Dimensional Media, Phoenix Home and Garden , Volume 20, Number 5, (March 2000), p. 158. (edited by Linda Barkman and photo by Dan Vermillion and Elliot Lincus)

Arizona Short Stories , ABC, Chanel 15, feature film including an interview and carving/turning demonstration, (October 1999)

Furniture Studio., First edition. The Furniture Society, Connecticut:, (September 1999), p 27, (John Kelsey and Rick Mastelli) 

Getting Real, Phoenix Home and Garden, Volume 19, Number 8, (June 1999), p. 26. (article by Amy Roffmann New and photos by Elliot Lincus and Dan
Vermillion)

You Can Find This Portrait Carver Researching in the Produce Isle, Woodshop News, Volume XIII, Number 2, (January 1999), p. T26, T27, (photograph by Dan Vermillion - article by Tod Riggio)

Not All Sculpture is Bronze, Art-Talk, Volume XVIII, Number 4, (January 1999) p. 19. (Photograph by Dan Vermillion - article by Bill Macomber)

Selected pieces of my work, Layers Magazine, (a CD-ROM art publication) Volume 1, Number 2, Short Leash Productions, San Francisco, California, 1998  

Education: Arizons State University, Woodworker West, Volume 11, Number 2, (March/April). p. 36. (article by Ronald Goldman)  

Channel 3 TV (News 3) - Interview, film of me working (band sawing and carving a pear) and examples of my work. This piece aired 3 times . 1997  

Galvanized Container, American Craft, Volume 56, Number 3 (June/July 1996). p. 77. (photo by Dan Vermillion and article by Beverly K. Brandt)  

Fool the Eye, Research, Volume 10, Number 2 (June/July 1996), p. 10, 11, 12,13 (Photos by Dan Vermillion, John C, Phillips and Tom Eckert - article by Tara Blanc)  

Still Life with Philodendron, American Craft, Volume 55, Number 5 (October/November 1995), p. 41. (ad for SOFA)  

Still Life with Sheldon’s Cigar, American Craft, Volume 54, Number 3, (June/July 1994),p.78.  

Calla Lily II, American Craft, Volume 51, Number 6, (December/January 1992), p.19.  

Phantom Cereus, American Craft, Volume 50, Number 1, (February/March 1990), p.12.

 

CONSULTANT 



1994/96 Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts  
Consultant, Wood Studio Complex
 
JUROR


  Student Art Exhibition, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, 2001

Fourth Annual Juried Art Show, Fountain Hills Community Center, Fountain Hills, Arizona, 1999 

10th Annual Interior Artisans Juried Exhibit 
 
Alaskaland Civic Center Gallery 
Fairbanks, Alaska, 1996 

Governor’s Awards Selection Panel  
(to select artists to be commissioned to create achievement awards) 
Phoenix, Arizona, 1994 

It's Elemental: Wood, Fiber, Clay, Glass & Metal   
Coconino Center for the Arts 
Flagstaff, Arizona, 1992 
Celebrate Craft 

Arizona Designer Craftsmen  
Annual Juried Exhibition 
Arizona State University 
Tempe, Arizona 

Student Art Exhibition  
Northern Arizona University 
Flagstaff, Arizona, 1992 

13th Annual Vahki Exhibition (National)  
Galeria 
Mesa, Arizona, 1990 

Festival 19 
Scottsdale Center for the Arts 
Scottsdale, Arizona, 1988

 
LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS


 

Two presentations at 2001: A Cultural Odyssey (the Furniture Society’s annual national conference).  A presentation on my own work and a workshop/demonstration on water-borne finishes. 2001

Presentation for the American Craft Museum Collector's Circle, Paradise Valley, Arizona, March, 2000

Slide presentationand with carving and painting workshop, Northern Arizona University, Flaggstaff, Arizona, November 1999

Slide presentation and carving workshop, West Valley Art Muaeum, Surprise, Arizona, September 1999

The Circle Unbroken, Furniture Society’s annual conference
Slide presentation of my work and a workshop painting demonstration Appalachian Center for Crafts, Smithville, Tennessee, 1999

Slide presentation and carving workshop, Spirit of the Senses, Phoenix, Arizona, 1999

Slide presentation and carving workshop (two presentations) Phoenix Art Museum Phoenix, Arizona, 1999 

Slide presentation and carving workshop, Cactus High School, Phoenix, Arizona, 1999

Slide presentation and carving workshop, West Valley Art Museum, Surprise, Arizona, 1999

Slide presentation and carving workshop - Arizona Association of Fine Woodworking, West Valley Art Museum, Surprise, Arizona, 1998 

Two presentations on my work at the California College of Arts and  Crafts.  One for the faculty and one for the students, 1996 

Lecture on my own work  - Wood Splinter Group, Phoenix, Arizona, 1996 

Carving and Painting Wood  - A two-day workshop funded by the National  Endowment  for the Arts, Alaska State Council on the Arts, Alaska State  Legislature, City of Fairbanks Bed Tax, Fairbanks North Star Borough,  Westaf, and corporate and individual Donations.  The Fairbanks Fine Arts  Association put this together and it was held at the University of Alaska,  Fairbanks, 1996. 

Painted Sculpture 
Fairbanks Fine Arts Association 
Fairbanks, Alaska, 1996 

Lecture on my own work 
California College of Arts and Crafts 
Oakland, California, 1996 

Woodturning  
Arizona Museum for Youth 
Mesa, Arizona, 1996 

Tom Eckert:  Wood sculpture  
Lecture on my own work 
The Orcutt/Winslow Partnership 
Architecture Planning Research 
Phoenix, Arizona, 1995 

Tom Eckert:  Current Work  
Sunday Salon Series 
Nelson Fine Arts Center 
Tempe, Arizona, 1995 

Lecture on my own work 
Arizona State University Art Museum 
Nelson Fine Arts Center 
Tempe, Arizona, 1994 

Tom Eckert:  An Artists Approach to Woodworking 
My own work 
The Arizona Fine Woodworking Association 
Phoenix, Arizona, 1993 

Lecture on my own work 
Arizona State University Foundation 
Office of Development 
Arizona State University 
Tempe, Arizona, 1993 

Lecture on my own work 
Arizona State University Art Museum 
Tempe, Arizona, 1992 

Lecture on my own work 
Tempe Art Center 
Tempe, Arizona, 1992 

Lecture on my own work 
Spirit of the Senses 
Phoenix, Arizona, 1992 

Frozen Images  (public lecture) 
Galeria 
Mesa, Arizona, 1992 

Wood Techniques  (public lecture and one day workshop) 
Northern Arizona University 
Flagstaff,  Arizona, 1992 

Carving and Painting Wood  (public lecture and one day workshop). 
San Diego State University, 1988.

TEACHING  


  Professor of Art (sculpture), Arizona State University  
Since 1971
 
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