Thomas Freese
Artist-in-Residence
Program 5: Tessellations
Program 11: Bookmaking
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ARTIST’S STATEMENT
Creativity is a human endeavor with virtually no limits. I am an artist because I find joyful
challenge in expressing the uniqueness in my soul. It is natural and rewarding to share my
excitement and pass on practical skills to children. Children are mortals who are particularly
adaptive to change and to personal vision, expressed in art. The essential goal of art is to
bring forth our inner feelings and dreams and to share with others.
Thomas Freese, artist
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THOMAS FREESE has studied arts and crafts since 1976 in various locales, including the Southwest
Craft Center and the McNay Art Institute in San Antonio, TX and El Tecnologico
de Estudios Superiores de Nuevo Leon in Mexico. Thomas also spent 11 years in New Mexico, where he
became familiar with Native American art and culture. He has mastered a variety of crafts, including
calligraphy, eraser carving, rubber stamp design, and jewelry making, and offers classes for schools
in jewelry making, printing, Native American crafts and culture, the art of rubber stamping, and
Spanish and Mexican folk-art crafts.
For Art On-Air, he shows students how to make a tessellating stamp and how to make an
accordion-fold book.
Designer of Rubber Stamps:
Critter #1 ©1995, Thomas Freese
hand-carved rubber stamp
Wood Carver and Book Illustrator
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Craftsman
(with a wonderful line of wooden jewelry)
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Teacher’s Guide for Tessellations
Teacher’s Guide for Bookmaking
Other Instructional Television Resources
Related Links
Contact Thomas Freese through the Kentucky Arts Council: (502) 564-3757
Last Updated: Wednesday, 09-May-2007 15:27:32 EDT
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