Thomas Wojak

www.thomaswojak.com

EDUCATION
MFA 1992 Printmaking with High Distinction, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
MFA Candidate Sculpture, 1968-70 Michigan State University East Lansing, MI
BA 1966 Philosophy/Theology, Christian Brothers College, Memphis, TN
Memphis Academy of Art, Major in studio art, Memphis, TN
Member of the Christian Brothers, (a Catholic teaching Order)

PROFESSIONAL
In 1972 founded the screen printing studio, The W.O.R.K.S, in San Francisco, CA. Continues as a master printer for limited editions, working with artists, designers, architects, museums and publishers. Moved studio to old town Vallejo, CA. in 2002.

TEACHING
1993 – present Printmaking Department California College of the Arts (formerly CCAC) Oakland, CA.
Interim Chair of Printmaking, 2007-08 Promoted to Senior Adjunct Professor, 2008
1993 – present Workshop instructor, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
1993, 1994, 1996 Workshop instructor, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
1998 – present Workshop instructor, Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA
1991 – 92 Graduate teaching assistantships, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1974 – 75 Screen printing instructor, Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA
1965 – 72 High school teacher, San Francisco, CA; Lansing, MI; Memphis, TN

AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS
Work in the field of screen printing has received local and national awards, honored by both the San Francisco Art Directors Guild and the New York Art Directors Association. Have placed in national juried competitions and won Purchase prizes in the last 8 years. International and national coverage of studio work in various publications. Prints and mixed-media work in numerous private collections, here and abroad. Honored by the California State Legislature in 2004 for his community service in the revitalization of historic downtown Vallejo, CA. Appointed by the City of Vallejo to the Percent For Art Advisory Group, November, 2006. Completed major commission of three large scale
panels for Dr. James McCole Medical Group, Pinole, CA. 2006

INTERNATIONAL
Currently working with a community of artists in Berlin and Stuttgart, Germany producing and collaborating on print projects, gallery work and foreign shows, including invitational exhibits. A personal interest in Germany’s “ Die Brücke” is motivating a scholarly visit to Berlin’s Die Brücke Museum for further research.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
“Taste 2008 Exhibition” April 9-26, 2008, Invitational exhibition, Root division, San Francisco, CA
"Celebrating a Centennial, Contemporary Printmakers at CCA," October 11, 2007, tour and presentation, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
"Paper Cuts 3" works on paper by Bay Area MFA candidates September 8 – November 3, 2007, Curator, Fetterly Gallery, Vallejo, CA
"Impressions/The Printed Image” August 27 – September 21, 2007, El Camino College of Art Gallery, Torrance, CA
"14 CCA Alumni visual artists, a juried exhibition" April 5 – May 25, 2007, Garage Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"The Art of a Community" Group show, Arts Benicia, January 20 – February 18, 2007, Benicia, CA
"Fresh" artists’ annual exhibition, December 7 – January 27, 2007, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA.
Small Works Exhibition, Fetterly Gallery, Dec. 9, 2006-Jan 6, 2007, Vallejo, CA.
The Art of a Community, Arts Benicia, Jan. 20, 2007 - Feb. 18, 2007, Benicia, CA.
Solo show: "Vallejo Mug Shots", January 15 - February 26, 2005, Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum, Vallejo, CA.
"The Art of a Community", January 29 - February 27, 2005, Arts Benicia Gallery, Benicia, CA.
"New Perspectives: Art + Artifact", March 12 - June 25, 2005, Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum, Vallejo, CA.
“ Paper Cuts” works on paper by Bay Area MFA candidates July 10 – August 28, 2004 Curator, Fetterly Gallery, Vallejo, CA
“ Printmaking & Process: An overview of contemporary practice” June 12 – July 18, 2004, Co-curator and exhibitor, Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA
“ The Print, from traditional to digital” April 18, 2004, Lecture on screen printing, The McCune Collection, JFK Library, Vallejo, CA
“ Drawing” November 15 – January 3, 2004, Fetterly Gallery, Vallejo, CA
“ Vallejo Artists’ Guild Invitational 2003: PHOTOGRAPHY” July 19 – August 30, 2003, Fetterly Gallery, Vallejo, CA
“Arts Benicia Print Show & Sale”, Co-Curator July 18 – 27, 2003, Arts Benicia Center Gallery, Benicia, CA
CCAC: Faculty Show 1996-2004, Oliver Art Center, Oakland, CA
CCAC: Yozo Hamaguchi Scholarship Exhibition, Juror, 2002 & 2003, 2004, California College of the Arts
“ Boesner Universalkasten”, 2002, Zürich & Hamburg, Germany
“ California Small Works 2001: 13th Annual Juried Exhibition of Small Work”, Juror’s Award Recipient, Juror: Kenneth Baker, September 19 – December 2, 2001, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, CA
Die Auktion “Come In” Invitational Hamburger Museum, October 1996, Hamburg, Germany
“ Invitational” traveling print exhibit, August – November 1995, CKS Partners, Inc., Campbell, CA
“ Invitational” Jubilaums-Ausstellung, 1995, Galerie Kinter, Remshalden-Geradstetten, Germany
“ Printmaking Possibilities: A 20-Year Retrospective of the Kala Art Institute”
1995, UC Berkeley Museum, Blackhawk, CA
“ Images and Objects 1994”, Jurors: Philip Linhares & Virginia Breier, April 1994, ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Scholarship Auction Exhibit, August 1993, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
“ One by One, Monotype Invitational”, July 1993, Op Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“ Hand Writing”, a collaborative site specific invitational work with Nance O’Banion, June 1993, California Crafts Museum, Ghirardelli Square,
San Francisco, CA
Invitational Show, May 1993, Barbara Anderson Gallery, Berkeley, CA
“ June Juried Exhibition”, Juror: Susan Cummins, May 1993, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA
“ Prints on Purpose”, Jurors: Sharon Simpson & Jeremy Stone, January 1993, Village Theatre Gallery, Danville, CA
“ Alumni Show” Art and the Art of Grilling, October 1992, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
“ Pacific Prints, 1992”, Jurors: Alan May, Donald Farnsworth & Karin Breuer, August 1992, Pacific Art League of Palo Alto, Palo Alto, CA
“ Blurred Visions” MFA Exhibition, May 1992, Downtown Gallery, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
“ The Family Series” Six editions contracted for publication, Riverwalk Gallery, Key West, FL
“ Pacific Prints 1990”, Jurors: Beth Van Heosen, Bonnie Earls-Solari & Charles Gill, 1990, Pacific Art League of Palo Alto, Palo Alto, CA
“ Nineteenth Annual Works on Paper”, Juror: Ivan Karp, 1989, University of Texas
“ Photo-Derived, An Exhibit”, Juror: Joel-Peter Witkin, November 1989, Indiana University
“ Fish, An Exhibit”, July 1989, Hockaday Center for the Arts, Kalispell Montana, Print selected for traveling show to 5 National Galleries for the year 1990. Dahl Fine Arts Center, Rapid City, SD; Memorial Art Museum, South Dakota State University; Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN; Pritchard Art Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID; Artwest Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY
“ West Coast Works on/of Paper”, 3rd Place Award and Purchase Prize, Juror: Donald Farnsworth, May 1989, Humbolt State University, Humbolt, CA
“ Prints Pacific” Works on Paper, 1988, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA

SELECTED ARTICLES
Artweek , November, 2005, “Paper Cuts (again) at Fetterly Gallery” Jordan Essoe
Daily Republic, January, 2005, “Exhibit turn mug shots into works of art” Ian Thompson
Contra Costa Times, “Cuts has an edge” July, 2004, Robert Taylor

Thomas Wojak's prints