Tom Lollar

{{Short description|American ceramist}}

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| birth_name = Thomas W. Lollar

| birth_date = 1951

| birth_place = Detroit, Michigan

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| nationality = American

| known_for = Ceramics

| training = Western Michigan University

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| website = [http://tomlollar.com/ TomLollar.com]

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Tom Lollar is an American ceramist. He attended Western Michigan University and earned his B.F.A. in Sculpture and Ceramics in 1973 and his M.A. in Ceramics and Art History in 1979.{{cite web |title=Noel Fine Art |url=http://www.noelfineart.com/artists.php?artist=lollar&about=2 |access-date=1 December 2009}}

Tom Lollar hand builds clay murals which depict architectural and geographical themes. Subjects include landmarks in both frontal bas-relief and aerial views. The unique surface color results from applying copper, bronze and platinum metallic paints and glazes. Each rectangular clay construction is approximately {{convert|20|x|20|x|4|in|abbr=on}} and may be placed in combinations of unlimited numbers suitable to wall size.{{cite web |title= Ohio Online Visual Artist Registry |url=http://www.columbuslibrary.org/cmlarts/artistdisplay.cfm?artistid=124&searchlist=L&searchindex=N&searchtype=B&original_type=NB&hits=44 |access-date=1 December 2009}}

Tom Lollar is currently the head of the Ceramics and Sculpture Department at Columbia University.{{cite web |title=Cleveland State University, Urban Update |url=http://urban.csuohio.edu/news/urban_update/june03urbanupdate.pdf |access-date=1 December 2009}}

Since 1988, he has been the Director of Visual Arts at the Lincoln Center.{{cite web |title=Great Impressions at Lincoln Center |url=http://www.antiquesandfineart.com/articles/media/images/00801-00900/00807/Lincoln_Center.pdf |access-date=1 December 2009}}

He is a trustee of the International Print Center New York.{{cite web |title=Moscow Press Release |url=http://www.kolodzeiart.org/moscowpressrelease.pdf |access-date=1 December 2009}}

He began teaching ceramics and sculpture in 1975 and is currently on the faculty of Teachers College, Columbia University.{{cite web |title= Mural Unveiled in Whittier Hall|url=http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news/article.htm?id=4913 |date= 2004-03-13 |access-date=1 December 2009}} He previously taught at Parsons School of Design in New York City.