Tom Spleth

Tom Spleth is a self-employed artist who makes paintings, prints, sculpture, and slip-cast ceramics. He was an assistant professor at the SUNY College of Ceramics at Alfred University from 1978-1984 and he has taught and lectured at several institutions, such as the University of Minnesota, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Rhode Island School of Design, the Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and the Penland School of Crafts. His painting exhibitions include the McColl Center for Visual Art , Charlotte, NC, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.

He has exhibited his ceramic work at the Blue Spiral Gallery, Asheville, NC, The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, International Museum of Art, Alfred University, Alfred, NY, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, and Greenwich House Pottery,  New York, New York. Among the grants and commissions he has been awarded are an Architectural Tile Commission, Governors Square, Raleigh, NC, New Works Grant, Cameron Museum of Art, Wilmington, NC, Interdisciplinary New Works Grant with the New Performing Dance Company, North Carolina Arts Council, Durham, NC, Art in Public Places Grant, National Endowment for the Arts, and an Artists Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts.

He has been a panelist on the National Conference for the Education of the Ceramic Arts and for the Visual Arts Panel, New York State Council on the Arts. He has been a resident at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center Arts Industry Program in Kohler WI. He is currently working in a small studio near the Blue Ridge Parkway at the edge of the Pisgah National Forest in Mitchell County, NC.