My consistency of drawing ink renderings every day, has amassed into hundreds of images. They are filed as folders containing landmarks, people, objects, landscapes/cityscapes, nudes, and the preponderance compiled of portraits of musicians. I love music and sketching musicians as they play their instruments. In my studio at home, I reinterpret the drawings as Gouache paintings, I dubbed Linear Paintings. Fast forward at least twenty years. Shifting to fuse glass, the images come to life in light shining through them. Working with glass is more intriguing.
EDUCATION
2009 Cloisonné Jewelry / Studio One Art Center, Oakland CA
2007 Center for Cultural Innovation’s Business of Art Workshop, Oakland CA
2006-2008 Enameling Artist Group “Copper Plate Special” Oakland CA
2005 Recycle Glass Kiln Casting / The Crucible, Oakland CA
2001- 2004 Fused Glass, Slumping, Stained Glass & Jewelry /Studio One
1995-1996 MFA Certificate, Golden Gate Univ., San Francisco CA
1990 Woodworking / J. Randall Museum, San Francisco CA
1988 Japanese Woodblock Printing / KALA Institute, Berkeley CA
1969-1973 BFA Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia PA
AWARDS / COMMISSIONS / COLLECTIONS
2009 Gouache Painting / City of Richmond Permanent Collection, Richmond CA
2007-2009 Oakland’s East Bay Community Foundation Grant Award / Fabrication of an Original Art Gate of Repurposed Materials
UC Berkeley Commission / Creating Paintings for Chancellor’s Commemorative Awards
2004-2006 Gouache Paintings in Alameda County Permanent Art Collection
1995-1996 Oakland Protocol Committee / Commissions of Paintings for Sister Cities, Oakland CA
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1996-2011 City of Oakland Recreation Art Specialist / Program Coordinator
2008-2010 Art Workshops, Women’s Cancer Resource Cntr., Oakland CA
1992-2011 Curator, Oakland CA
1999-2000 “Women Back To Work” Art Workshops, Oakland YWCA
1999 Classroom Guest Artist, Westlake Middle School, Oakland CA
1993 Illustrator, BAM Publication’s “San Francisco Downtown”
1992-1998 Exec. Director Non-Profit Center for Visual Arts, Oakland, CA
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
2006-2011 Alameda County Arts Commissioner, East Bay CA
2005-2011 Women’s Art Group, East Bay CA
1998-2011 Pro Arts Non-Profit Art Association, Oakland CA
1996-2011 TAOLB (The Art Of Living Black), East Bay CA
1986-2011 National League of American Pen Women, Wash. D. C.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2000-2011 Listings on Internet / Google search / YouTube
2008 Best Kept Secrets aired on CCTV
Oakland Magazine, Oakland CA
2006 Sunday Oakland Tribune, Oakland CA
2003-2006 Artist Talk
2005 Temescal News and Views
2001-2002 Contra Costa Sunday Times / The Laney Tower, Urbanview, West County Times, East Bay CA
Looking Out / Looking In Textbook, Harcourt College Pub., Texas
“Milvia Street Art & Literary Journal”, Berkeley CA
2000 Videotaped for “Impact” Cable TV, Alameda CA
SELECTED ART FAIRS & GROUP EXHIBITS
2011 Alameda Historical Museum and Art Gallery, Alameda CA
2010 Studio One Art Center, Oakland CA
2010 & 2006 San Francisco Library, San Francisco CA
2008 Richmond Art Center, Richmond CA
2007 Lakeview Library, Oakland CA / John O’ Lague Galleria, Hayward CA
2006 Women’s Cancer Resource, Oakland CA
2005 Grand Lake Neighborhood Center, Oakland CA
2004 Hotel Triton, San Francisco CA
2003 Frants Albert / Kodama Diseño Architectural Planners, Oakland CA
2001 Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco CA
1996 -2011 TAOLB/ The Art of Living Black, Richmond CA
RETAILERS
2010 – 2011 Fingado Gallery , El Cerrito CA / Expressions Gallery, Berkeley CA
2006 Entrez, Home Accessories, Furniture & Decorations Store, Oakland CA
2004 The Jazz School Books and Art Store, Berkeley CA
2003 Moore College of Art & Design, Art Shop, Philadelphia PA
Builders Booksource, Berkeley CA
2000-2001 Virginia Bull Gallery, Alameda CA
DONATIONS
2010 Pro Arts, “Box Show”, Oakland CA Girls Inc, Alameda CA
2006 -2009 Friends of Parks & Recreation ”Taste of Spring Event,” Oakland CA
Equal Rights Advocates, “Concert and Auction,” San Francisco CA
2004 U U CB “Talents and Treats Auction,” Kensington CA
U U CB “Tsunami Relief Drive”, Kensington CA
2003 American Heart Association “Wild At Heart,” Oakland CA
Berkeley Art Center “Chamber Music Benefit Series Silent Auction, Berkeley CA
October 26, 2015 at 2:36 pm
Hi Tomy’e,
It is been a long time since we’ve run into each other. I was thinking about you because I’ve been working in glass lately and I thought about who had influenced a lot of my structural designs in terms of portraits and it definitely came from a great deal. Then this weekend I was at the firehouse collective and ran into other people that you know when work with. I think this is not a coincidence. Love Rosa
August 17, 2016 at 9:28 am
Wanted to call you to say goodbye but I no longer have your phone number. Moving to Sarasota, Florida came about so quickly we could hardly take a breath. Just wanted to tell you I have loved knowing you. You are an inspiration to me in many ways. Your art is extraordinary. The way you live your life is positive and creative also. We fly away on Friday. Take good care of yourself, Tomye. I’ll be in touch. Love, Dori