Accent Art Glass Presents: About the Artist
In 1975, Tom Philabaum arrived in Tucson, leased a building, and
built a glass studio. By 1976, he was selling glass.Today, over 26 years later, the Philabaum glass furnaces are still roaring.
My involvement as an artist began in the late 1950's and early 1960's at the Toledo Museum of Art School. Coincidentally, around the same time, Harvey Littleton, the acknowledged Father of the Studio Glass Movement, began his first experiments in glass working using a small furnace built in the parking lot of the Toledo Museum School. My interest then was Winslow Homer paintings, drawing from life, and playing my cornet.
EDUCATION:
University of Arizona, MFA, 1983
University of Wisconsin, MA, 1973
Southern Illinois University, BA, 1969