From Beginning to End: Cone 2 Soda Firing

Artist Biography

Originally from Minnesota, Tom received a BA in Visual Art and a BS in Biology with a minor in Chemistry from Bemidji State University.  He was a summer resident and a long-term resident at the Archie Bray Foundation.  In the fall of 2015 Tom began a 3-year residency with his wife Maggie Jaszczak at the Penland School of Craft.  In 2018 Tom and Maggie put down permanent roots in Shafer, MN where they live in a farmhouse and work in a barn style studio. 
Tom has received several awards and honors, including a Jerome Projects Grant, ECRAC Essential Artist Award, and Emerging Artist Award through NCECA as well as Ceramics Monthly.  In  the summer of 2014, Tom was an Honored Maker at the Maker’s Faire at the White House in Washington D.C under the Obama presidency. Tom’s current body of work is a range of pots made of red earthenware that explore minimalism and are finished with an experimental surface solution firing to cone 2 in a soda fired atmosphere.