Jason Schneider
Associate Professor
BFA William Patterson University, MFA San Diego State University
Jason Schneider is an Assistant Professor of Woodworking and Furniture Design at Northern Michigan University. He received his MFA in Furniture Design from San Diego State University (2005), where he studied with Wendy Maruyama. Jason later moved to Snowmass Village, Colorado, to run the woodshop at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center. While in this ten-year position, Jason had the opportunity to work closely with furniture makers and woodturners such as Sam Maloof, Wendell Castle, David Ellsworth, Wendy Maryama, Gail Fredell, Michael Hurwitz, Thomas Hucker, Michael Fortune, Stephen Hogbin, Merryll Saylan, and many more.
Jason's work resides in the Studio Furniture movement, creating one-of-a-kind pieces of furniture for commission and exhibition. His current body of furniture and turned sculpture explores both texture and form through the use of corrugated cardboard. He has exhibited his work extensively throughout the United States, including SOFA Chicago, the Museum of Craft and Design in San Francisco, ICFF in New York, and the Center for Art and Wood in Philadelphia, PA. He was the 2015 Windgate Artist in Residence at SUNY Purchase College in New York, and a 2017 International Turning Exchange Fellow at the Center for Art in Wood. Jason continues to lecture and demonstrate his unique process of working with corrugated cardboard for organizations such as Google, the Furniture Society, the American Association of Woodturners, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Penland School of Crafts, and many universities and woodworking clubs throughout the country.
EMAIL: jasschne@nmu.edu
WEBSITE: jasonschneiderfurniture.com
