• EDUCATION
• CONSULTANT
• COMMISSIONS
• EXHIBITIONS: ONE-PERSON
• EXHIBITIONS: GROUP
• SELECTED  COLLECTIONS
• PUBLISHED WORKS
• JUROR
• LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS
• TEACHING

EDUCATION

BFA, Arizona State University, "With Distinction"

AA, Phoenix College, Phoenix, Arizona

Advanced Study, California State University  
Northridge, California

Professional Activities, Since 1989

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

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

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

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

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: 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

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

Maveety Gallery 
Salishan 
Gleneden Beach, Oregon 

Ten Years After 
Tenth anniversary celebration of the Yuma Symposium 
Yuma Art Center 
Yuma, 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)

CONSULTANT 

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.