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Art + Design Studio in Charlotte, NC
3D Professor at UNC Charlotte
MFA Alfred University 2009

Happy 95th birthday to Herb Cohen —lovely to celebrate with Lydia Thompson and Tom Schmidt a few days earlier this week. Herb has been a great friend and modest raconteur helpful to rescue lost histories. A designer, potter, and museum builder, he is an awfully sweet and kind man. Salut!

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🪞 See yourself in this work of art! Hear from artist Thomas Schmidt (@thomasschmidtstudio) about his work “Sample Spaces” currently on view in exhibition “Recent Acquisitions” through July 19, 2026 at 📍Mint Museum Uptown.

The Mint Museum’s collection spans centuries and disciplines. From craft, design, fashion, African art, photography, decorative arts, contemporary, and American art. Guided by Mint curators who seek out compelling works from around the world. In “Recent Acquisitions,” the museum presents works of art acquired over the past 12 months.

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People of 52nd International Academy of Ceramics Congress. We are brining world peace through clay🤓

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$Final Gallery Walkthrough 5/5: Dusk From my recent exhibition Encoded Surface at the Dalton Gallery. Dusk is part of a series I’ve been developing since grad school in 2009. The work began with an obsession with crumpled paper — its immediacy and complexity, and the way thousands of small facets catch light and shadow. I’ve always been fascinated by how these surfaces can resemble the energy of a mountain face, except here those formations can be folded and shaped by hand. Through mold-making and casting, these fleeting gestures become frozen in time. This piece is part of my Intervals Series, where metallic prints are interspersed across fields of crumpled ceramic tile. The title references musical intervals — the spaces between notes that create harmony, tension, or dissonance. In these works, I’m interested in what kind of visual intervals emerge when reflective metallic surfaces interact with the fractured geometry of the tile. Full exhibition video linked in bio. This project was made possible by the N.C. Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural & Cultural Resources, the Blumenthal Endowment, and the Arts & Science Council. @ncartscouncil @yorkcountyarts Video by @thesmartlab #ThomasSchmidt #Ceramics #ContemporaryArt #InstallationArt #Porcelain$

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$Gallery Walkthrough 4/5: Tension and Rest From my recent exhibition Encoded Surface at the Dalton Gallery. Tension and Rest grew out of a simple material experiment while I was a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Instead of draining slip-casting molds after a few minutes, I allowed the clay to settle inside the molds over several weeks. As moisture slowly evaporated, rings formed along the interior surfaces, each one recording a different moment in time. During firing, internal tensions caused the solid cubes to fracture and split apart, but the clay fused back together in the kiln, preserving the entire history of the event within a single form. These experiments eventually expanded into a larger body of work built from fractured blocks, remnants, and accumulated material traces. Full exhibition film linked in bio. This project was made possible by the N.C. Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural & Cultural Resources, the Blumenthal Endowment, and the Arts & Science Council. @ncartscouncil @yorkcountyarts Video by @thesmartlab #ThomasSchmidt #Ceramics #ContemporaryArt #MaterialExperiment #Sculpture @saicceramics$

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