Tom di Maria is the founder and Director of Arts Access for All.

Tom served as Director of Creative Growth Art Center for 25 years.  There, he developed partnerships with museums, galleries and international design companies to help bring artists with disabilities fully into the contemporary art world. He speaks around the world about artists with disabilities and their relationship to both Outsider Art and contemporary culture. 

Prior to this position, he served as Assistant Director of the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, at UC Berkeley. Tom has also worked as the Executive Director of FRAMELINE, and as Director of Development and Marketing at the San Francisco Film Society. He holds a B.F.A. from Rochester Institute of Technology and a M.F.A. from Maryland Institute, College of Art. Tom is also an award-winning filmmaker, with short film awards from Sundance, Black Maria, Sinking Creek, National Educational Media, and New York Experimental film festivals. In 2019, he was awarded the Visionary Award by the American Folk Art Museum in New York.