Since 1987 Tom Greensfelder has run his own design firm, Greensfelder Design, in Chicago. His clients have included Broadway In Chicago; the Grant Park Music Festival; the Illinois Humanities Council; AFSCME Council 31; cartoonists Nicole Hollander and Lynda Barry, and performers Bucky Halker, Tony Sacre, Tom Mula and Michael Fosberg. Prior to that he was the Art Director for the University of Chicago Alumni Magazine for seven years and the newsweekly In These Times for two years.
He has taught numerous classes in calligraphy and lettering for The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Loyola University and the Newberry Library. For the last ten years, he and his wife, Olivia Petrides along with EW Ross and Patricia Pelletier have run a two-week class in the Lot Valley, France, entitled The Artist’s Journal in France.
He curated the show DIY/XX: Zines, Mini-Comics and Graphic Novels by Women for Loyola University and Beautifully Banal: The Last Calligraphy Show for the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts.
He helped organize and run Chicago Calligraphy ’83, the third international calligraphy conference held in Lake Forest, Illinois. He has served on the Board of Teatro Vista... Theatre With A View, Chicago's only equity Latino theater company, from 1997 to 2014 and as Board President from 2001 to 2007. His previous board experience includes the Center for Book and Paper Arts, Artists Book Works and the Chicago Calligraphy Collective.