"Tom Prochaska worked in a range of media including painting, etchings, glass, and papier maché. He depicted people engaged in labors, street scenes and buildings, and pastoral landscapes.
Tom Prochaska received his Masters degree in Fine Arts from Pratt Institute in 1970 and taught at Pacific Northwest College of Art from 1988 until his retirement in 2012. Prochaska exhibited extensively throughout the United States and the world, he was in group exhibits including those at Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA; Palos Verdes Art Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA; and the Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR. A solo exhibition of his prints in Lugano, Switzerland, was on view in the fall of 2018. His work can be found in museum collections worldwide. In 2023, curator Jonathan Bucci of The Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem, exhibited a retrospective survey of his career titled, Tom Prochaska Music For Ghosts. The exhibition featured 70 works spanning over 50 years including paintings, drawings, prints, and work on glass."
Tom's family has identified The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research for contributions honoring his memory, see link below.