By day, Tom Dawson, RLA, is a urban designer and landscape architect working to enhance Durham though planning and designing open spaces. Tom believes a sense of place is established amid the individual details of an urban landscape, so by night he fabricates sculpture and street furniture out of the Shadowbox, an downtown art space.

He has designed and fabricated trophies for the Durham Farmer's Market Chef Challenge for the past four years, designed and led a team of volunteers in building the grass-roof Beaver Marsh Kiosk, and has taken prizes at the Scrapel Hill Sculpture Competition in Chapel Hill. His ongoing project is to design and fabricate sculptural bike racks that reflect the character of small businesses in downtown Durham.