Tom Ferraro is a professional artist/painter and is currently the co-director of the Northwestern Pennsylvania Artists Association. He serves on the design committee of the Erie Downtown Partnership and is actively involved in Erie County’s “Culture Spark” initiative. Tom has worked as an artist in residence for the Erie School District, the Penncrest School District and is an adjunct instructor at Mercyhurst NE. Tom has exhibited extensively in regional and national shows including work recently shown at the Erie Art Museum, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh and various galleries in New York City. He holds a BFA in Painting from the University of Miami and has also studied at Pratt Institute and the Art Students League of New York. My work deals with the emotional impact of color and shape and their relationship to objects in the world around us. I use personal images to reflect a contemporary view of my time. As an artist, I am attempting to visually interpret my view of the world and share them thru my work while at the same time absorb new images from my world in order to shape the basis of my art.