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Excerpt from thomassayre.com
History
Thomas Sayre grew up in Washington, D. C. in the shadow of the Washington Cathedral. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on a Morehead Scholarship and majored in English and studio art. He graduated in 1973, summa cum laude. He then moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he was a Michigan Fellow with a three-year grant from the Ford Foundation to make sculpture at the University of Michigan. In 1975, Mr. Sayre attended the Master of Fine Arts Program at the Cranbrook Academy of Art for the one year.

In 1977, Mr. Sayre moved back to North Carolina, began P.U.S.H., a non-profit organization dedicated to the improving of institutional environments for mentally impaired individuals. His work with P.U.S.H. extended throughout the United States in over 16 states.

In 1981, together with architect Steven D. Schuster, Mr. Sayre formed Clearscapes, which is a multi-disciplinary design firm with an office and studio in Raleigh, North Carolina, employing fifteen people. Clearscapes is involved with building design, product design, and both large- and small-scale artwork. Combining the hands-on process of the sculpture studio with architectural skills, the firm is unique in its combination of talents.

Mr. Sayre continues to work actively as a sculptor with commissioned work in various collections spanning between Boston, Sacramento, San Francisco, Perth, Australia, Istanbul, Turkey, Hong Kong, Colorado, Tucson as well as throughout the Southeast. He has exhibited his work in a number of private galleries, as well as the North Carolina Museum of Art, the St. John's Museum, the Waterworks Gallery, and the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art. In 1995, he received a NEA/SEA Fellowship. Mr. Sayre is currently working on public projects in six different states.