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About Me

The Tom Museum (PITTSBURGH, PA)WINNER OF THE 2007 MAYOR'S AWARD FOR PUBLIC ART, Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council Work of Art Awards!The Tom Museum is one of the newest art museums on the planet. The museum is Pittsburgh artist Tom Sarver's home, studio and exhibition space all contained in one building next to the Mattress Factory Museum of Art. The museum is open Satudays 11am - 5pm and Sundays 1pm to 3pm. Tickets to The Tom Museum are available with Mattress Factory Admisssion.The Museum is an ever changing exhibition of painting, sculpture, drawing and puppetry. Exhibits in the museum are inspired by everyday life activites including gardening, cooking, and fishing. Tom is generally available during museum hours to answer questions about his work. The museum features regular puppetry performances, art demonstrations, experimental performances, films and visiting artists. The Tom Museum is an exhibition of the Mattress Factory. See tommuseum.com for details.

My Interests

Painting, Puppetry, Site Specific Installation, Gardening, Sculpture, Performance Art, Sound Art, Cooking, Fishing, Drawing, Homemade Gadgets, Kinetic Art, Film and Video, Photography, Outsider Art, Politics, Memory.

I'd like to meet:

People that enjoy art, artists that like to go fishing, people that know how to make wasting time into art, people that like to go out for breakfast on Saturdays, People who like to experiment with cooking, Creative Gardeners, People interested in puppetry and toy theater.

Music:

Devo, Palace Brothers, James Brown, The Fall, White Stripes, Bowie, Otis Redding, Talking Heads, Dodo Marmarosa, Miles Davis, Cat Power, The Carter Family, Air, Hope Harveys, Black Moth Super Rainbow, The Kinks, Quintron, Lou Barlow, ELO, Alice Cooper, Sonic Youth, PJ Harvey, The Ex, Beck, MUM, Blonde Redhead, Yardbirds, Pavement, Bo Diddley, Modest Mouse, Rolling Stones, Johnny Cash, Stevie Wonder, The Beatles and Neil Young to name a few.

Television:

Sometimes I sketch while watching the eleven oclock news.

Books:

Books by: Franz Kafka, Dostoyevsky, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edgar Allan Poe.I also enjoy social and political commentary. (like Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn)

Heroes:

Keith Haring and Jim Henson

My Blog

Museum Extended

After over ten months of living inside of a costantly evolving museum, I have decided to take a couple of weeks off to relax. The Tom Museum will be closed May 7th through May 25th. From the 26th th...
Posted by The Tom Museum on Wed, 09 May 2007 02:53:00 PST

Installation Olympic Theatre Rules and Regulations

Installation Olympic Theatre will be taking place Saturday, March 17th from 7PM to 10:30PM at the Mattress Factory. Tickets are $9.00/$6.00 for students and free for MF Members. Below are the rules ...
Posted by The Tom Museum on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 07:26:00 PST

Response to questions

I am often asked questions about my project over email. Here is a copy of some recent questions that I was asked by a visitor from out of town that I will call "L." L: Do you find people criticizing ...
Posted by The Tom Museum on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 03:44:00 PST

Installation Olympic Theatre set for March 17th!

For Immediate Release!Installation Olympic Theatre at The Mattress Factory!Artist Tom Sarver of The Tom Museum, along with the Mattress Factory Museum of Art present Pittsburgh's newest art event, Ins...
Posted by The Tom Museum on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 03:15:00 PST

Call For Artists: Installation Olympic Theater

Installation Olympic TheaterOn March 17, Pittsburgh's newest form of performance art theater will arrive, Installation Olympic Theater. This new art competition is part of the Tom Museum Performance ...
Posted by The Tom Museum on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:46:00 PST

Open Drawing Sessions at The Tom Musuem

Tom is offering a free, three session drawing workshop for adults at The Tom Musuem. Participants will draw from still life and interior architecture. Space is limited. Participants should bring a ...
Posted by The Tom Museum on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 01:10:00 PST

New YOUTUBE video

I just posted my first YOUTUBE video. My YOUTUBE channel is tommuseum. The video is footage of the puppet show SNOT NATURAL that was performed at the museum during puppet month. Enjoy!
Posted by The Tom Museum on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 06:49:00 PST

Visionary Art

Gallery OpeningThe Tom Museum will be holding an opening reception for Pittsburgh visionary artist Steve Smith on Saturday, November 18th from 7PM - 10PM. Also on that night, DJ Sarver Express will b...
Posted by The Tom Museum on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 07:05:00 PST

Political Art

Way back before the war in Iraq began, I began to get political with my art. Sculptures turned into three-dimensional political cartoons and puppets shows began to criticize government propaganda and...
Posted by The Tom Museum on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 10:26:00 PST

8th Black Sheep

With the events of this past weekend the 8th Annual Black Sheep Puppet Festival is officialy over. As far as quality goes, the event was perhaps the best that the former Duquesne Brewery has ever hel...
Posted by The Tom Museum on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:54:00 PST