Thomas Schmidt is an American artist, designer and co-founder of Recycled China.
He also serves as Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary 3D Studio and Digital Fabrication at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
“My studio practice explores the evolving relationship between craft, materiality, and digital
technology in the post-digital age. By integrating digital fabrication with traditional techniques, I
challenge the binaries between the handmade and the digital, the natural and the artificial, and
the physical and the virtual. My work examines how materiality can bridge the gap between
virtual experience and tactile reality.”
From 2009 through 2013 Schmidt taught ceramic design at the Alfred/CAFA (China Central Academy of Fine Art) Ceramic Design for Industry program in Beijing. He received his Post-Baccalaureate Certificate at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and MFA at The New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. Schmidt also worked as an assistant to renowned modernist sculptor Ruth Duckworth. His sculptural work is included in numerous public and private collections including The Daum Museum of Contemporary Art in Sedalia, Missouri, The International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza, Italy, The Schein-Joseph Museum of Ceramic Art in Alfred, New York, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. To contact Thomas please click here.