Tom Birmingham is an artist, photographer, writer, and teacher. After 35 years living and working in Big Sur, California, he re-located to Hamden, Connecticut in 2024.
His photography has been published internationally in magazines from National Geographic Traveler to DNR. He has taught photography, watercolor, and drawing at Rancho la Puerta, Tecate, BC, Mexico; Spannocchia, Rosia, Italy; and various locations around the country.
He inspires student’s nascent creativity through his workshops, I Can’t Draw and You Can Too! And Tell Me More!; as well as the visual arts series he co-teaches, Awaken the Artist Within.
As a founding director of the Big Sur Arts Initiative, Tom has provided instruction and enrichment in the creative arts in a variety of mediums. For ten years he taught art in the summer children’s theater program, StageKids. Tom was the director of the Big Sur JazzFest, founding member of Big Sur’s Hidden Garden’s Tour, and currently manages Studio One – Big Sur.
More recently, Tom is the founder of 26Letter Press, a small publishing company dedicated to printed materials celebrating and inspiring creative expression.
In the summer of 2020, Tom designed the museum exhibition and accompanying book, Color Duets – Kaffe Fassett | Erin Lee Gafill, which was the headlining show for five months at the Monterey Museum of Art.