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Education
University of Vermont, Institute for Industrial Archeology, 1982.
M.F.A. in Painting, University of South Carolina, 1980.
M.A. in Applied Art History, University of South Carolina, 1980.
B.A. in Studio Art, Belmont Abbey/Sacred Heart Colleges, 1972.

Experience

1990-Present
Director of Winthrop University Galleries
Associate Professor of Art and Design.
Rock Hill, S.C.

Answers to the dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts.  Responsibilities include organizing and curating exhibitions in the Elizabeth Dunlap Patrick Gallery, Rutledge Gallery and Edmund D. Lewandowski Student Gallery; maintaining University Collection; facilitating public art in campus buildings and on campus grounds; publications; educational programs; community outreach; public relations; and the Patrons of the Gallery including working with development and fundraising.

1985-90
Director of Waterworks Visual Arts Center, Salisbury N.C.

Responsibilities included organization and curating year round exhibition and community-based education programs; development/fundraising; board development; and a capital campaign to re-design and renovate facility.

1987-89
Instructor of Art History and Appreciation, Livingstone, College, Salisbury, N.C.

1983-85
Assistant Professor of Art, Barry University, Miami, Fla.

1980-83
Assistant Professor of Art and Historic Preservation, Arkansas College.

1979-80
Instructor of Art, Central Corrections Institute, Columbia, S.C.

1975-77
Resident Designer, Greg Copeland Inc., Fairfield, N.J. & New York, N.Y.

Affiliations
Meta Museum Gathering, Black Mountain, N.C., 1994-Present.
College Art Association
Southeastern Theatre Conference
American Association of Museums
South Carolina Federation of Museums

Artist : Exhibitions
2006
     • Two-Person Exhibition, if Art, Gallery 80808, Columbia, S.C.
     • South Carolina Birds, City Gallery, Charleston, S.C.
Alumni Invitational, McMaster Gallery, University of South Carolina.
     • Two-Person Exhibition, Center for the Arts, Rock Hill.
     • One-Person Exhibition, Glance Gallery, Raleigh, N.C.
     • NASCAR Inspired, Hickory Museum of Art.
     • State Art Collection, Part II, 1992-2006, Sumter Art Gallery.

2005
The Neighborhood and Other Recent Works, The Gallery at Carillon, Charlotte.
Good Art in a Home, if Art, Columbia.
Homegrown Southeast, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art.
Sommerwende International Arts Festival, gallery twenty-four, Berlin.
Memory and Place, Waterworks Visual Arts Center, Salisbury, N.C.

2004
Triennial 2004, South Carolina State Museum.
South Carolina Birds, Sumter Gallery of Art and Burroughs Chapin Art Museum.
Floating, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, Riverfront, New Orleans.

2003
Une Collection: Homage a Geneviève Roulin, Furor et La Galerie du Marché,  
  Lausanne.
New American Paintings, #46, the Eighth Open Studios Southern Competition in
  Print.
across the river, New Works by Tom Stanley, Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte.
Maker Versus Material, Curator:  Joie Lassiter, Trizec Properties, Charlotte.
Figure of Speech: Tom Stanley and Tim Hussey, Halsey Gallery, Charleston, S.C.

2002
Tom Stanley:  Black Mountain Drawings, Jeanne Rauch Gallery, Gaston College.
Tom Stanley and Alf Ward, Rebecca Randall Bryan Art Gallery, Coastal Carolina.
La Collection Geneviève Roulin, Musée de la Halle Saint Pierre, Paris.

2001
Accessibility, two installations for downtown Sumter, S.C.
Public Art and Landscape in the Charlotte Region, The Gallery at Carillon,
  Charlotte.
Reconstruction Eden, Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, N.C.
en route to orleans, an installation for the McColl Center for Visual Arts, Charlotte.

2000 
New American Paintings, #28, the Fifth Open Studios Southern Competition in
  Print.

1999  
Recent Work, USC Sumter Gallery.
Collaborations/James M. Steven, McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina
• Installation of en route to hamlet, Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte.
Just Racin': Artists Look at NASCAR, Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art.

1998 
• Installation of en route to hamlet, McKissick Museum, University of South
  Carolina.         
Works on Paper, Zone One Contemporary, Asheville, N.C.
Triennial '98, South Carolina State Museum.

1997  
Our Connection to the Land, Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art.
Gary Komarin, Michael Nakoneczny & Tom Stanley, MOFA, New Orleans.

1996   
• Installation of en route to hamlet, Spirit Square, Charlotte.     
• Combined Talents, 1996 Florida National, Fine Arts Museum, FSU.
KY/SCnyc (curator/Fiona Ragheb), National Art Club, New York, N.Y.
• Installation of en route to hamlet, Jeremiah Miller Gallery, Greensboro, N.C.

1995
18th Annual Invitation Exhibition, Waterworks Visual Arts Center, Salisbury, N.C.
Tom Stanley and Gene Merritt, Meteor Gallery, Columbia, S.C.

1994   
Chiaroscuro - A Contemporary Study of Light and Dark, Montgomery Museum or
  Art.
Art Automat, Context Inaugural Exhibition, Charlotte.
• Award, River Art Festival Exhibition, Greenville, S.C.

1993  
Tom Stanley Paintings, Sarratt Gallery, Vanderbilt University.
Invitational Exhibition, Zone One Contemporary, Asheville, N.C.

1992    
Recent Paintings, USC Spartanburg.
Music of the Canvas with composer David Ott, Waterworks Visual Arts Center.
Carolina Artscapes 92, a public art billboard project sponsored by Adams Outdoor,
  the Mint Museum and the Charlotte/Mecklenburg Arts and Science Council.

1991   
Two-Person Exhibition, Chelsea Gallery, Western Carolina.
Homecoming:  Artists Celebrate Their Teachers, Spirit Square Center for the Arts.

1988   
Group Exhibition, Gilliam and Peden, Raleigh, N.C.

1987     
• Best Painting, Springs Traveling Exhibition.

1987   
Crayon Show, SECCA, Winston-Salem, N.C.

1986   
Off the Beaten Path, Limbo Gallery, Charlotte, N.C.
Drawing/Seven Points of View, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

1985   
Positive/Negative, 2-D National, East Tennessee State.
College of Mainland Print and Drawing Exhibition, Texas City. Tex.

1983     
Arkansas Art '83, Mabee Fine Arts Center, Arkadelphia, Ark.

1982   
Tom Stanley Paintings, Isaac Hathaway Arts Center, University of Arkansas.

1981    
14th Annual Arkansas Exhibition, Southeast Arkansas Arts Center.

1980   
Tom Stanley:  Recent Work, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro.

Gallery Representation:
Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, N.C.

if ART
, Columbia, S.C.

Glance Gallery, Raleigh, N.C.

Selected Collections, Commissions and Public Art    
• Workshop artist, Levine Children’s Hospital Art Project, Charlotte Country Day School.
• State Art Collection, South Carolina Arts Commission
• Jean de Matini et Geneviève Roulin
• First Charter Center
• Duke University
• B.F. Goodrich
• Womble, Carlyle, Standridge and Rice
• Offices of the Collection de l'Art Brut
• Kennedy Covington Lobdell & Hickman
• NationsBank
• North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching
• Davidson College
• University of South Carolina
• Carolina Artscapes '92, a public art billboard commission, Charlotte, NC
• Riverworks, Arkansas College Campus, funded by the Arkansas Arts Council

Publications and Exhibition Catalogues
South Carolina Birds, Wim Roefs.                        
     • Triennial 2004, South Carolina State Museum.

2003
New American Painting #46, Eighth Open Studios Southern Competition, Open
  Studio Press, Boston, Mass.

2002
Geneviève Roulin, published by Jean de Martini & Furor, Switzerland.

2000
• New American Paintings #28, The Firth Open Studios Southern Competition, Open
        Studio Press, Boston, Mass.

1999
The Carolinas Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, An Exploration of Social and
        Economic Trends, 1924-1999; funding from the Duke Endowment.

1998
• Triennial 98, South Carolina State Museum/South Carolina Arts Commission.

1996
Combined Talents:  The Florida National 1996, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State.
NY/SCnyc:  Works by Contemporary Artists from Kentucky and South Carolina,
  The National Arts Club, NY, essay by J. Fiona Ragheb.

1995
3 Artists II, Waterworks Visual Arts Center.

1994
Chiaroscuro:  Montgomery 1994 Biennial, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts,
  essay by Jane Kessler.