Thomas Wojak is a master printer and artist who founded The W.O.R.K.S, a screen printing studio, in 1972 in San Francisco. The studio specializes in limited edition work for local as well as international artists, and works extensively with the Bay Area design community. Over the years, his work in the field has been honored by both the San Francisco Art Directors Guild and the New York Art Directors Association. Projects include editions for the Estate of Jerry Garcia, prints and mixed media pieces for Berlin artist Peter Kuckei and other German painters, the graphic elements for Francis Ford Coppola’s winery and movie museum in the Napa Valley, and screen printed projects for the recent Alcatraz Island renovations. The studio relocated to historic downtown Vallejo, CA, in 2002. His own work, consisting of print and mixed media pieces, deals with “creating a present from the fragments of the past.” and has been exhibited extensively locally and internationally and is featured in numerous private collections. In 2006, a major commission was completed for the McCole Medical Group in Pinole, CA. In 2004 he was awarded Certificates of Recognition from the California State Assembly and Senate, acknowledging his work in helping revitalize downtown Vallejo, CA. The Mayor and City Council of Vallejo appointed him to the Percent for Art Advisory Group in 2006, to help craft those guidelines.
He is a senior adjunct professor at the California College of the Arts in the printmaking department. Also, he has taught workshops for many years at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, CA, and occasionally at the Penland School of Crafts in Penland, NC, and the Mendocino Art Center, in Mendocino, CA.