Tom Harmon

Terry, Mississippi

Tom Harmon is a multi-media artist who paints in watercolor, acrylics, and oils, and sculpts in clay. Harmon discovered his passion for teaching students with disabilities while volunteering at the Mississippi School for the Deaf. Harmon, who lost his hearing while teaching, has been the Senior Artist in Residence for the VSA Arts of Mississippi Community Art Group for eight years and teaches a weekly art class of 32 adults with disabilities. Recently, he completed an oil painting workshop with Santa Fe artist Joe Anna Arnett and is studying with artist Bob Tompkins. Harmon, who has been fitted with two cochlear implants and is able to hear again, is excited to be a 2009-2010 VSA arts Teaching Artist Fellow and says he “loves the intellectual challenge of creating arts as well as the emotional involvement and satisfaction that comes with it.”