Associate Professor & Coordinator of Sculpture
Office: College Hall C202
Phone: (703)993-4575
Email: tashcraf@gmu.edu
Office Hours: TBA
Professional Activities:
Tom Ashcraft is an artist whose work explores form, place, and functional design. Whether identified as architecture, furniture or metaphorical sculpture, his art resides in the grey area of the small rituals and ceremonies of everyday life. He has collaborated extensively with artists, architects, local communities, biologists and urban planners, which has allowed Ashcraft to cross conventional boundaries of art vis-à-vis building, landscape, utility, and so on. His solo and collaborative projects include BOOKWORKS, a conceptually designed bookstore for the Washington Project for the Arts, Washington D.C.; the Mt. Rainer Roundabout Project, a collaborative project with artist David Chung which includes streetscape design of sculpture, bus shelters, and sidewalk-surfacing, for the city of Mt. Rainer, MD; The Andros Island Art Project Program, a series of student and community initiated collaborative projects on Andros Island, Bahamas; and Memorial, an environmental site work for the Town of University Park, MD. He has exhibited objects, drawings, public projects, environmental and site-specific installations nationally including at the Atlanta Center for Contemporary Art, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY, and Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, D.C.
Education:
MFA 1982 Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
BA 1979 University of South Florida, Tampa FL
AA 1976 Miami Dade Community College, South Campus, Miami, FL
Selected Reviews and other Publications:
Washington Post, Miami Herald, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune, Vouge Decoration Magazine, Art in America, Artpapers, Art Review, WPA Document, Making Mosaics, Altamont Press, Devils Workshop 25 Years of Jersey Devil Architecture, Princeton Architectural Press
Tom Ashcraft is represented by
Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, D.C.
www.hemphillfinearts.com
Personal Web
www.tomashcraft.com
