Tom Ashcraft Tom Ashcraft is a visual artist who makes drawings, sculptural objects, installations, solo and collaborative public works. Tom has exhibited and produced work throughout the United States including the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, Atlanta Center for Contemporary Art, Atlanta, GA, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY. He is included in many public and private collections and is represented by Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, D.C. His commissions include BOOKWORK’S, a conceptual collaboratively designed bookstore, for the Washington Project for the Arts, Washington D.C.; the Mt. Rainer, MD Roundabout, in collaboration with artist David Chung, which included streetscape design, two sixteen foot tall mosaic sculptures, three bus shelters, nine hundred linear feet of cast bas relief, and sidewalk-surface design; The Andros Island Art Project, a three year series of public collaborations with students and the residents of Stainard Creek, on Andros Island, Bahamas; 9/11-Memorial, environmental site work in remembrance of five residents from the Town of University Park, MD; and Five Mile Line, a temporary public works residency/project collaborative (Workingman Collective) at the Silver Bow Arts Foundation, Butte, MT. Born in Long Beach, CA, raised in Las Vegas, NV and Miami, FL, Tom received his MFA from Indiana University, BA from University of South Florida, and an AA from Miami Dade CC. He has received a Ford Foundation Fellowship, NY State Arts Council Grant, and residency at Yaddo. Tom Ashcraft is an Associate Professor and the coordinator of Sculpture for the Department of Art and Visual Technology, College of Visual and Performing Arts, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
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