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Thomas Schmidt

@thomasschmidtstudio

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Art + Design Studio in Charlotte, NC
3D Professor at UNC Charlotte
MFA Alfred University 2009
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We had an awesome evening at @themintmuseum Randolph for the preview night of @pottersmarketatthemint! This year marks the 20th Annual Potters Market at the Mint, and my first time participating. So excited to be part of it! If you’re in the Charlotte area, come by and say hi to May and I! Saturday, September 26 | 9 AM–4 PM Mint Museum Randolph taken in The Mint Museum by @thomasschmidtstudio
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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! by @thomasschmidtstudio
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In 2025, the IAC welcomed over 250 new members from 59 countries around the world. These new members are primarily individual artists, alongside galleries, museums, ceramic centres, schools, curators, and educators—all united by a shared dedication to advancing the field of ceramics. We’re introducing some of these new members, who, together, represent an inspiring cross-section of today’s outstanding ceramic talent. We look forward to getting to know all or our new members and extend a warm welcome to each of them to the IAC. Thomas Schmidt is a United States-based ceramic artist whose practice explores the shifting relationship between craft, materiality, and digital technology. Using 3D scanning, printing, mould-making, and casting alongside traditional ceramic processes, he questions distinctions between the handmade and the digital, the natural and the artificial, and the physical and the virtual. His work examines how technology reshapes both materials and our perception of touch, surface, and presence. Image: "Stacked Vase Series" (2024) by Thomas Schmidt, United States, @thomasschmidtstudio #NewMembers2025 #IACMembers #Ceramics #InternationalAcademyOfCeramics #aiciac by @thomasschmidtstudio
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We had an amazing visit to the studio of @julieandjesse in Hong Kong. Their studio is pretty magical; an encyclopedia of experimentation and research, alongside the finished work that has been distilled from all the experiments. You can also find their work currently on display at the “Making It Matters” show @mplusmuseum Thank you Julie and Jesse! taken in Hong Kong by @thomasschmidtstudio
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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 taken in Dalton Gallery, Center for the Arts by @thomasschmidtstudio
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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 taken in Dalton Gallery, Center for the Arts by @thomasschmidtstudio
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Gallery Walkthrough 3/5: Recycled China Triptych From my recent exhibition Encoded Surface at the Dalton Gallery. This project began during my time teaching in Beijing through the Alfred + CAFA Ceramic Design for Industry program. While living in China, I became fascinated by the immense scale of ceramic production, the deep regional histories of porcelain, and the amount of material discarded during manufacturing. Working with artist Jeffrey Stephen Miller(@jeffreystephenmiller), we began experimenting with ways to repurpose ceramic waste by crushing rejected porcelain into aggregate and pouring molten recycled aluminum over the shards. The aluminum curls around the fragments and locks them together as it cools, creating a surface suspended somewhere between geology, industry, and craft. This piece incorporates recycled porcelain baijiu bottles originally produced in Jingdezhen. Full exhibition film linked in bio. Student work by Wanying Liang @wanyingliang and Xiaolei Liu 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 #MaterialResearch #Jingdezhen @alfredceramics taken in Dalton Gallery, Center for the Arts by @thomasschmidtstudio
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Gallery Walkthrough 2/5: Morphology Series From my recent exhibition Encoded Surface at the Dalton Gallery. The Morphology Series uses 3D modeling software as a kind of digital sketchbook — a space to experiment with form, contour, and the behavior of clay during printing. But not everything that works on the screen survives translation into physical material. For me, the work exists in that back-and-forth between digital space and the unpredictability of fabrication. The horizontal layering of 3D-printed clay became central to the series, eventually leading to contrasting vertical patterns that reference textiles and shifting perception. These forms suggest vessels, but the focus gradually moves away from utility and toward surface, rhythm, and the experience of viewing. Full exhibition video linked in bio. This project was made possible by the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural & Cultural Resources, the Blumenthal Endowment, and the Arts & Science Council. @ncartscouncil Video by @thesmartlab #ThomasSchmidt #Ceramics #ContemporaryArt #3DPrinting #DigitalFabrication @yorkcountyarts taken in Dalton Gallery, Center for the Arts by @thomasschmidtstudio
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Gallery Walkthrough 1/5: Future Flora From my recent exhibition Encoded Surface at the Dalton Gallery. Future Flora was created during a residency in Jingdezhen, China, as a reflection on the evolving identity of ceramics in the post-digital age, and first shown at The Center for Craft @centerforcraft The work is constructed from porcelain modules that branch outward into a tangled network of spheres, connecting historical pottery shards, industrial ceramics, 3D-printed components, and collected artifacts from different moments in time. I think of these objects as carrying different histories and modes of making, all suspended together within a single material system. The surface imagery draws from altered photographs of moss and lichen collected in the forests around Jingdezhen, blending references to Chinese porcelain traditions with forms of growth that feel unpredictable and constantly evolving. 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 #Porcelain #postdigital taken in Dalton Gallery, Center for the Arts by @thomasschmidtstudio
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I’m thrilled to share that my work, Sampled Spaces Mirror, has been acquired by the Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC. I’m deeply grateful to Lauren Harkey and Hodges Taylor Art Consulting for generously donating the work to the museum’s permanent collection. If you are in the area please come check out this work along with many others in the “New Acquisitions” show at the Mint Museum Uptown through July 19th. Sampled Spaces - Mirror Cast porcelain, mirrored acrylic, magnets and steel 54”H x 132”W x 4.5”D 2020 . Pics 3-5 by @katherine_kirchner 📸 . @hodgestaylorartconsulting @themintmuseum . . #contemporaryart #contemporarydesign #ceramics #crumpledpaper #modulardesign taken in The Mint Museum by @thomasschmidtstudio
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When he’s not winning awards at Sundance, he occasionally squeezes in time to photograph my ceramics. Thanks, Ben. @thesmartlab These pics are from my solo show “Encoded Surface” at the Dalton Gallery. If you are in the area, please hop on your snowmobile and come to the closing reception this Thursday Feb 5th from 5:30–7:30pm! Dalton Gallery - 121 E Main St in Rock Hill, SC. ❄️❄️❄️ . . @yorkcountyarts #contemporaryart #contemporarydesign #contemporarycraft#contemporaryceramics #ceramicsnow taken in Dalton Gallery, Center for the Arts by @thomasschmidtstudio
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Own a piece of CODE & CRAFT. Works from our exhibitors are now available to purchase. Limited pieces shaped through digital fabrication, material research, and contemporary craft. 🛒 Shop the collection via link in bio 📘 Request the full catalogue via DM ⏳ Once they’re gone, they’re gone Designed to be collected. Made to last. Artists Featured Cera.LAB I @cera.lab⁠ Sona Gevorkyan I @sona_gevorkyan⁠ Drag and Drop Studio I @drag__and__drop Thomas Schmidt I @thomasschmidtstudio by @thomasschmidtstudio
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