Tom Loeser

Tom Loeser is a renowned member of the Studio Craft movement. He designs and builds one-of-a-kind functional and dysfunctional objects that are often carved and painted and always based on the history of design and object-making as a starting point for developing new form and meaning. Beginning in 1981, the artist has exhibited his work globally including with Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Paris, France) and Peter Joseph Gallery (New York, NY). Since 1991, he has been head of the wood/furniture area at University of Wisconsin, Madison. Loeser holds a BA from Haverford College, a BFA from Boston University’s Program in Artisanry and an MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. Loeser has received four Visual Artist Fellowship Grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. His work is held in a number of public collections, including that of the Brooklyn Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery.