Graduate Teaching Assistant, 1969-71
BFA, Arizona State University, "With Distinction"
AA, Phoenix College, Phoenix, Arizona
Advanced
Study, California State University
Northridge, California
Professional Activities, Since 1989
Dimensional Wood Artist: Part Two, College of Fine Art, Arizona State University
Funds used for a project at Arizona State University
Arizona Commission on the Arts
Arizona State University
Jerry & Martyle Reinsdorf
Scottsdale, Chicago
McDonald's Corporation
Oakbrook, Illinois
Sheldon and Sylvia Lavin
Tucson, Chicago
OSI Industries, Inc.
1215 Corporate Boulevard
Aurora, Illinois
Terminal 4, Sky Harbor International Airport
Phoenix, Arizona
McDonald's Corporation
Oakbrook, Illinois
Tom Eckert: More Illusions, Gallery Materia, Scottsdale, Arizona
Joanne Rapp Gallery
The Hand and the Spirit
Scottsdale, Arizona
Tempe Art Center
Tempe, Arizona
Tom Eckert
Himovitz Miller Gallery
Sacramento, CA
Frozen Illusions
Joanne Rapp Gallery
The
Hand and the Spirit
Scottsdale,
Arizona
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Prescott Fine Arts Association
Prescott, Arizona. Invitational
Ornament, The White House Christmas tree
Washington, DC Invitational
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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, Wood Studio Complex
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
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.
Since 1971
