Tom Sneeringer
At-Large Board Member
Tom is a retired lawyer/lobbyist. Over 44 working years in DC, he “ran the table” in terms of a Washington career, having worked for a professional society, an industrial trade association, a Fortune 500 corporation, a federal agency, two law firms, a lobbying shop, and a coalition of international trade lawyers. He also worked in a senior staff position on Capitol Hill where, he says, he gave the best twelve years of his life … and had to do it in six. Tom represented the American steel industry for the second half of his career, whereby he became very fond of the color of rust. An urban forager by nature, Tom could not resist collecting alley junk as he came across it – nuts/bolts/screws and washers (so many washers), steel bands from garden barrels, wire frames from yard signs, faded and worn lumber, old ladders and odds and ends with unknown purpose. Then he started saving used household items -- plastic bottle caps, “tin” cans, old porch flooring, replaced fixtures, etc. Eventually, inspired by a sculptor he met while traveling and after touring a few “junk art” collections, ideas began to occur to him about things he might be able to make.Tom sees his art this way: “Things that have done their job, but have been cast aside, can still find new ways to be interesting. It’s actually a good model for retirement.”
tmsneeringer@gmail.com