As an evolving artist for over 40 years plus, T. J. Krueger is now airbrushing the illusion of light. Custom mixing of acrylic paint from a paste to a fluid airbrush consistency and the addition of gold acrylic paint in the past 15 years is the trick to his painted skies in landscapes.

Krueger’s ceramic forms are wheels-thrown and altered by paddling or “spanking” his pots. A long-lasting impression of manipulating a form was gained in the summer of 1970.  As an art scholarship recipient at the Peninsula School of Art in Door County, Wisconsin.  T.J. lived for a short time with Tom Yelvington, a well-known glass artist. Witnessing the fluid fluidity of glass being formed and then morphed is a constant influence of his art to this day.

Mixed media artist best describes TJ's approach to his creative compass. In the mid-90’s, a series of commissioned wall sculptures, “Beyond Clay”,  bridged his need to work large. These plywood reliefs were surface-coated and decorated with a variety of painting techniques. The viewer saw them as clay or metal.

Post 9/11, Krueger’s musical expression blossom to create his Primal Percussion Ensemble, Artist in Residence Program. Creating drums in various sizes and providing sets of 30 to schools has resulted in 35 residencies and 1300 drums to primarily elementary schools, as well as Head Start programs and adaptive music workshops in the middle school and high school students within a five state region. In recent years, Krueger taught adaptive painting and pottery at Cerebral Palsy of Green Bay.

Commingled passions of yoga, cross-country skiing, pottery and painting, sculpture and teaching workshops are the benchmarks that defined Krueger's bottom line "I've been doing what I like to do for over four decades"