The Life and Training of Tom Lieber Born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1949, Tom Lieber began his formal engagement with visual language in the American Midwest. He moved into higher studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he spent several years refining his approach to both painting and printmaking. His time there was marked by a steady progression through academic training, earning a BFA in 1971 and subsequently…