Faculty

Judith Schwartz

Associate Professor of Art and Art Education

Phone: (212) 998 5700
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Head of the Sculpture: Craft Media Area. She is a critic, curator and author of national and international articles on contemporary craft issues. Invited member, International Academy of Ceramics. Chair for two international conferences held at NYU: "Case for Clay in Secondary Education" and "Criticism in Crafts Arts: Crossings, Alignments, and Territories." Educational consultant to Lenox China Company; Board of Directors for the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Studio Potter Magazine, The Joseph Schein International Museum of Ceramic Art, at Alfred University, The Jingdezhen Sanbao Ceramic Art Institute, Jingdezhen, China, The Musuem of Ceramic Art, New York, NY, and the Univeristy Council for Art Education. She recently curated the exhibition "Confrontational Clay: The Artist as Social Critic" for the Mid-American Arts Aliance which toured ten museums through out the United States.


Degrees Held

  • M.A. New York University 1969
  • Ph.D. New York University 1983
  • B.A. Queens College, Flushing, New York 1964

Awards

  • Everson Museum of Art, Award
  • John D. Rockefeller III Arts in Education, Grant
  • International Academy of Ceramics
  • Advisor of the Year, New York University, Gallatin Division

Publications

  • Confrontational Clay: The Artist As Social Critic, Mid-America Arts Alliance, Kansas City, Missouri, January 2000
  • Howard Kottler, An Irresistibly Irreverent Iconoclast, Ceramics: Art and Perception,

Courses

  • Design Education in the Crafts
  • Projects in Ceramics
  • Advanced Ceramic Sculpture
  • Ceramics I and II

Research Interests

  • American artists who work in traditional craft media in non-traditional ways
  • Identification, documentation, and aesthetic analysis of American artists who deal with social commentary in sculpture
  • Multiculturalism in the Crafts
  • Design Education in the Crafts