Thomas M. Brewer, Ph.D.
Professor and Coordinator of Art Education
College of Education
University of Central Florida
Thomas Brewer has been the Coordinator of Art Education at UCF since 1996. He
served in similar positions at three universities before coming to Orlando. He has a B.A.
in Art Education and Ceramics from Southern Illinois University Carbondale (1973), an
M.A. in Art from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (1985), and a Ph.D. in Art
Education from Florida State University (1989). After graduating in 1973, Brewer
worked as a studio potter for nine years and began teaching in 1982. He has taught art
and art education at the K-12 and university levels for the past 30 years.
Brewer’s research and scholarship in Visual Arts Education has focused on student
learning, curriculum and instruction, assessment, and more currently arts education
policy. He has served as President of the Seminar for Research in Art Education and the
Chair of the National Art Education Association’s (NAEA) Research Commission (19982001) and was the Chair for the Southeastern College Art Conference Visual Arts
Education Policy Committee. He was named the 2002 NAEA Higher Education Art
Educator of the Year, the 2006 Florida Art Educator of the Year, and the 2007 NAEA
National Art Educator of the Year. In 2012 Brewer was elected to the National Art
Education Foundation (NAEF) Board of Trustees and as an NAEA Distinguished Fellow.
His studio work has been included in exhibitions at the South Carolina Museum,
Columbia, SC; the Florence Museum of Art, Florence SC; McKissick Museum,
Columbia, SC; the Arkansas Art Center and the Arkansas Art Center Decorative
Museum, Little Rock, AR; the Evansville Museum of Art, Evansville, IN; LSUSheveport; Walton Art Center, Fayetteville, AR; Annual Florida Craftsman Exhibitions;
American Crafts Council Spotlight Exhibitions; Seminole Community College;
Adjust<X>Seek at the Florida Crafts Members Gallery 2006; Ohr Rising: Gulf States
Competition, Biloxi, MS; in 2008 A Twist on Tradition: National Juried Exhibition, Jersey
Shore Clay National, Platters and Pourers National; and Red Heat: Contemporary Works
in Clay 2010. Brewer is currently represented at the Florida Craftsman Gallery in St.
Petersburg, FL; Carol Robinson Gallery, New Orleans, LA; Arts on Douglas, New
Smyrna Beach, FL, The Cinema Gallery, Urbana, IL; and at www.tombrewergallery.com
Brewer was born 1948 in Urbana, IL and has had his home and studio in New Smyrna
Beach, Fl since 2000. In 2010 he purchased Griggs St. Studio in Urbana and holds his
annual holiday sale there each year. For more information you can see:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/TomBrewerGallerycom/144078418980494?ref=hl
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