He has taught design for more than 20 years (15 years at UGA), and was in architectural practice for ten years prior to teaching. In Spring 2011, he spent a semester at UW-Madison as the Interdisciplinary Arts Residency Program’s 26th artist-in-residence and taught a course titled Drag Space, which looked at the way public spaces gain identity through the activities they contain as much as through form. Tad is an award winning artist/architect/designer whose work incorporates elements of sculpture, industrial design, performance, furniture design, ritual, graphic design, landscape, non-static forms and jewelry/metals into complex assemblages, using a range of techniques from hand carving to industrial computerized milling.