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Born in Lake Forest, Illinois in 1956, Erika Lawlor Schmidt has forged a career as a visual and performing artist whose work is deeply shaped by investigations into Eastern philosophy and Indian mysticism. Schmidt received her B.F.A. from the University of South Florida in Tampa and did post-baccalaureate studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She later earned an M.F.A. from the University of South Florida, where she founded the Vital Spark Performance Group, a collaborative interdisciplinary ensemble that has traveled to major U.S. cities and throughout Europe.
Schmidt and her husband, Gary Schmidt, a composer and frequent collaborator, recently moved from central Florida to southern Vermont, a life change that has had a profound and immediate impact on her work. The latest series of collages and prints are now informed by a more refined sensibility influenced by the seasons and the ever changing light of New England.
Schmidt and her husband, Gary Schmidt, a composer and frequent collaborator, recently moved from central Florida to southern Vermont, a life change that has had a profound and immediate impact on her work. The latest series of collages and prints are now informed by a more refined sensibility influenced by the seasons and the ever changing light of New England.
