Tomboulian has had five one-woman shows, which have also appeared in a number of national juried art exhibits and several group shows. Pieces of her work are in the collections of the Charles Sumner Museum in Washington, D.C., in the Fort Smith Arts Center and in numerous private collections. Tomboulian moved from upstate New York to Arkansas in July 1977 and has lived in northwest Arkansas ever since. She has four children, all of them teachers and artists of one kind or another, and seven grandchildren.

Tomboulian states: “I have done a great deal of terra cotta sculpture in my life, and I do love working with clay. But watercolor gives me the chance to work with a color in a way clay never really can. Also, there are subjects to which clay refuses to lend itself. One of those is landscape, which I love.'