Education
1981 Master of Fine Arts in Furniture Design, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1979 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture, Indiana University, Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, IN
1977 Concentrated Sculpture Program, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

Teaching Experience
2007 - present Indiana University, Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis, Adjunct Professor of Furniture Design
2007 Artist in Residence, State University of New York (SUNY), Purchase, NY
1999 -2002 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, Instructor, Furniture Design
1998 -2001 Elston Woodworking School, Chicago, IL, Wrote curriculum, designed class projects, hired instructors, taught Fundamental Woodworking, Joinery With Hand Tools and Power Tools.
1982 Columbia College, Chicago, IL, Instructor, Furniture Design
1980 1981 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, Teaching Assistant, Furniture Design and Construction
1979 Indiana University, Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, Instructor, Furniture Design and Construction

Selected Awards
2006 Best of Show for Contemporary Furniture, Individual Piece, Fine Furnishings Show - Milwaukee, WI
2006 Individual Artist Project Grant, Indiana Arts Commission, IN
2004 Best of Show Award for Furniture, Fine Furnishings Show - Providence, RI
2004 Individual Artist Project Grant, Indiana Arts Commission, IN
2004 3-D Merit Award, 80th Annual Hoosier Salon Exhibition, Indianapolis, IN
2001 James R. Thompson Award, Excellence in Crafts, Illinois Artisans Program, IL
2000 Honorable Mention, New Ideas in Furniture, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
1998 Designer's Choice Award, Illinois Interior Designers Coalition Benefit, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL
1997 Travel Stipend Award, Philadelphia Furniture Show, Philadelphia, PA
1990 Visual Arts Fellowship Grant, Illinois Arts Council, IL
1988 Founder's Excellence Award, 57th Street Art Fair, Chicago, IL

Selected Publications
Furniture Studio 5 - The Meaning of Craft, The Furniture Society, Asheville, NC 2007
“Gallery”, Woodwork Magazine, December, 2007
“Marketplace”, Style 1900, Fall/Winter 2006-07
“Best of show”, Brown County Democrat, November 15, 2006
“Power of Jellyfish”, Louisville Courier Journal, November 12, 2006
“Tom Tedrowe named resident artist at SUNY”, Bloomington (IN) Herald Times, November 5, 2006
“Seven win Fine Furnishings awards,” Woodshop News, December, 2006
“A Colorful Drive Through Brown County”, Bloom Magazine, Bloomington, IN, October/November, 2006
“Woodworker to exhibit at two shows”, Brown County Democrat, Nashville, IN, May 3, 2006
‘Judges at the Fine Furnishings Providence Show” RISD Views, Spring 2005
“Providence show sees numbers increase”, Woodshop News, January, 2005
“Out-of-town kudos”, Louisville Courier Journal, November 28, 2004
“Furniture and crafts with a personal touch”, The Providence Journal, November 6, 2004
“R. Thomas Tedrowe Furniture Studio”, Our Brown County, August, 2004
400 Wood Boxes, Lark Books, New York, NY 2004
“Artist given IAC grant”, Brown County Democrat”, June 30, 2004
“Studio furniture designer to speak at library”, Brown County Democrat, March 17, 2004
“the design is in the details”, The Bloomington Herald-Times, August 11, 2003“Craftsman turns colorful wood into works of art”, Johnson County Daily Journal, June 25, 2003
“Tedrowe’s work to be featured”, Suburban Life, January 13, 2001
Made in Illinois, Illinois Arts Council, 2001
“Out of the Box”, Woodshop News, January, 2000
Furniture Studio, John Kelsey and Rick Mastelli, ed., Cambium Books, Bethel, CT, 1999
“Currents - Wood Work”, The Landmark, September 2, 1999
“3 Shows in Chicago”, Woodwork Magazine, August, 1999
"Furnishings", Old House Interiors, Winter, 1998
"Chicago Style, Our Favorite Finds", Chicago Tribune, February 15, 1998
"Riverside furniture designer's Work to be featured", Suburban Life, February 18, 1998
"Riverside designer wins grant", Suburban Life, September 17, 1997
"Show Goes Beyond Furniture. . .", Chicago Tribune, February 17, 1991
“Furniture as art”, Chicago Tribune, March 17, 1991
Design Book Five, Taunton Press, Taunton, CT 1990
"The Daring Do", Chicago Tribune, September 10, 1989
Commissions, American Craft, August/September, 1989
“ ‘Boxed In’ exhibit explores the square’s root”, Boston Herald, August 11, 1989
“Furniture of the ‘80s”, New Art Examiner, April, 1989
“The Marriage of Function and Esthetics”, Dialogue, An Art Journal, March/April, 1987
“An exhibit of furniture artistry”, Chicago Tribune, March 24, 1985
“The Old/New Art of Furniture Making”, St. Louis Post Dispatch, June 13, 1984
“A panorama of furniture from the city that made it all”, Chicago Tribune, January 15, 1984
Chicago Furniture: Art, Craft, and Industry, 1833 1983, Sharon Darling, W. W. Norton & Co., New York, NY & London, 1984
“The Woodworkers of Herron”, Indianapolis Home & Garden, January, 1979
"Current Work", Fine Woodworking, May/June, 1983
Design Book Two, Taunton Press, Taunton, CT 1979

Related Professional Affiliations
The Furniture Society, Advisory Board Member, Charter Member, Volunteer, Conference committee for 2006 conference in Indianapolis, IN
Hoosier Salon, Member
Indianapolis Arts Center, Member
Bloomington Area Arts Council, Member
Brown County Studio & Garden Tour, Member

Related Professional Activities
Artist in Residence, State University of New York (SUNY), Purchase, NY. Spring Semester, 2007
Bloomington (IN) Area Arts Council, Annual Operating Support Grant Review Panelist, 2005
Home & Garden Television, featured artist on Modern Masters, Episode #501, January, 2001
Guest Speaker for DuPage County Woodworking Club and Hickory Hills Woodworking Club, IL 2001
Summerfair art fair, Cincinnati, OH, Woodworking Judge, 1993, 1995
Williamsburg Institute, Williamsburg, VA, Attendee, A Region of Regions, Cultural Diversity and the Furniture Trade in the Early South, 1997

Selected Exhibitions
2007 R. Thomas Tedrowe - Artist in Residence Show, Dolly and Richard Maass Gallery, Purchase, NY
2007 International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF), Jacob Javits Center, New York, NY
2007 RISD Midwest, Sherrie Gallery, Columbus, OH
2006 Work in Wood, New Hope Arts, New Hope, PA
2006 Fine Furnishings - Milwaukee, Midwest Airline Center, Milwaukee, WI
2006 82nd Annual Hoosier Salon, Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis, IN
2006 Contemporary Indiana Woodworkers, Indianapolis Art Center, IN
2006 Crossroads, Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis, IN
2005 Fine Furnishings - Providence, Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, RI
2005 81st Annual Hoosier Salon, Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis, IN
2005 The Best of 2005, Ohio Designer Craftsmen, various venues in Ohio
2005 Music Takes A Stand, Enigma Gallery, Essex, VT
2005 Function, Sculptural Objects Show, McLean County Arts Center Bloomington, IL
2004 Fine Furnishings - Providence, Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, RI
2004 80th Annual Hoosier Salon, Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis, IN
2003 Artistry in Wood 2003. Domont Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
2002 Artistry in Wood 2002, Domont Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
2001 SOFA Chicago, represented by Evan Lewis, Chicago, IL
2001 Beyond Function: The Art of Furniture, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
2001 American Craft Council Craft Show 2001, represented by Illinois Arts Council, Chicago, IL
2000 Chicago Contemporary Decorative Arts, Betty Rymer Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago, IL
2000 New Ideas in Furniture, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
1999 Furniture as Art, Krempp Gallery, Jasper Community Arts Commission, Jasper, IN
1999 R. Thomas Tedrowe, Jr. - Works in Wood, Riverside Arts Center, Riverside, IL
1999 A Fine Line, Finer Things Gallery, Nashville, TN
1999 Chicago Designs! New Chicago Furniture VIII, Chicago Athenaeum, Chicago, IL
1998 SOFA Chicago, represented by Finer Things Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998 Bridging the Gap, Chicago Furniture Designers Association, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL
1998 One of a kind Furniture Show, Finer Things Gallery, Nashville, TN
1998 Philadelphia Furniture and Furnishings Show, Philadelphia, PA
1998 Chicago Designs! New Chicago Furniture VII, Chicago Athenaeum, Chicago, IL
1997 Philadelphia Furniture Show, Philadelphia, PA
1997 Chicago Design Show, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL
1996 12x12x12, Rhode Island School of Design Alumni Juried Traveling Exhibition, Providence, RI
1991 Home Sweet Home, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
1990 RISD Chicago Alumni Show, Chicago, IL
1990 Furniture of the Nineties, Hokin Kaufman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1990 Tangelwood Interiors, Houston, TX
1990 Perspective: A View of Things in The Craft Media II, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
1989 Boxed in 2, Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA
1989 Furniture of the Eighties - Last of the Decade, Hokin Kaufman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1988 Seven Contemporary Craftsmen, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1988 Furniture - The New Styles, Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI
1988 Chicago International Art Exposition, represented by Gallery 369, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
1988 Contemporary American Hand, Katie Gingrass Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
1987 Grand Opening, The Gallery Topeka Kansas, Chicago, IL
1987 The American Craft Museum Benefit Auction and Sale, Sotheby's, New York, NY
1987 Young Chicago, Katie Gingrass Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
1987 Contemporary Works in Wood, S. W. Ohio Cultural Arts Center, Athens, OH
1987 Lamps, Tables, Chairs, Indianapolis Center for Contemporary Art, Herron Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
1987 American Craft Expo, St. Paul, MN
1987 New Art Forms Exposition, represented by Topeka Kansas 1987 Gallery, Chicago, IL
1986 Fresh!, The Gallery at Workbench, New York, NY
1985 A Renaissance of Furniture as Art, Esther Saks Gallery, Chicago, IL
1985 70th Indiana Artists Show, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
1985 Made in Chicago, Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago, IL
1985 Chicago 1984: Contemporary Furniture, Evanston Arts Center, Evanston, IL
1984 Second Annual Midwest Wood Furniture Show, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
1983 Inaugural Exhibition Gallery Artists, Hokin Kaufman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1982 New Woodworking: Seven Chicago Craftsmen, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
1981 Interiors, Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA
1978 Metropolitan Arts Council Corporate Show, Indiana National Bank, Indianapolis, IN
1978 Indiana Crafts, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
1978 Chair Show, Herron Gallery, Indianapolis, IN