Judith S. Schwartz, Ph.D., Professor, New York University, and Head of Sculpture: Craft Media Area, teaches studio-based courses in ceramic sculpture and supervises interdisciplinary research with masters and doctoral students. Her research emphasis is upon the ceramic arts - from the mid-twentieth century to the present - more specifically upon those artists who employ clay to reflect personal alienations, social and political struggles, popular and material culture - as a form of art activism.

She is curator and author of national and international exhibitions and articles on contemporary ceramics. She is author of Confrontational Ceramics, A & C Black, London and University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. The book is a study of the history of the use of clay as a tool for social commentary. More specifically, it represents a global perspective upon those artists who employ caricature, parody, satire, obscenity, erotica and the grotesque - to focus attention upon the inequities of the human condition.

Member of the International Academy of Ceramics; Chair of notable 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 (Past President); Studio Potter Magazine, The Joseph Schein International Museum of Ceramic Art, at Alfred University(Advisory Committee); The Museum of Ceramic Art, New York, NY (Current Board President); K12 Ceramic Art Foundation; and the University Council for Art Education (Past President). Juror and consultant to numerous national and international exhibitions - most recently the Ceramic Biennial in Icheon, Korea , European Biennale, Bornholm, Denmark, and All Fired Up for the Westchester Arts Council which featured her curated exhibition, Confrontational Ceramics. Honorary member of NCECA, a J. D. Rockefeller III grantee and the Everson Museum’s award for excellence in art education. Fulbright Senior Specialist to the National School of Art and Design, Dublin, and Educator Of The Year award Renwick Museum of Art, Washington, DC.