American Studio Glass: A Survey of the Movement
May 15 - August 24, 2003

Jack Schmidt
G-3° Penetration
Beveled plate glass, stainless steel
1982 25 x 10 x 11

Jack Schmidt (born 1945; resides Toledo, OH)

Jack Schmidt earned a B.S. in 1968 from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. In 1969 he studied glass and assisted Fritz Dreisbach (one of Littleton’s first generation of glass students) at the Toledo Museum of Art School of Design. Schmidt earned an M.S. in 1973 from Illinois State University in Normal where he also assisted Joel Myers. In 1974, Schmidt served as visiting instructor and acting department head of the graduate and undergraduate glass program at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Schmidt continued as an educator throughout his career, and has consistently been recognized in major collections, exhibitions, and publications. Schmidt was appointed Secretary of the Glass Art Society in 1974, and has been an active member ever since. He is the Recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council. He has enjoyed numerous one-man shows at galleries ranging from Habatat Galleries across the United States to Edgewood Orchard Galleries, in Door County, Wisconsin. Group exhibits range from Millennium Glass: An International Survey of Studio Glass, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL, to Masters of Contemporary Glass, The Naples Philharmonic and Museum in Florida. The Smithsonian, Corning Museum of Glass, Detroit Institute of Art, Toledo Museum of Art, and other public and private collections possess his works, which typically are sculptural fabrications of glass, metal, and/or stone.

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