Maurice Schmidt

Professor of Art Emeritus 1965-2002
Texas A&M University- Kingsville
Kingsville, Texas

Art Critic 1974-1989
Corpus Christi Caller Times bimonthly column
Corpus Christi, Texas

Lecturer 1958-1963
Our Lady of the Lake University
San Antonio, Texas

EDUCATION
University of Texas- Austin B.F.A 1958
Austin, Texas

Cranbrook Academy of Art M.F.A 1956
Bloomfield Hills, MI

Instituto Allende Summer 1956
San Miguel De Allende, Mexico

School of the Museum of the Fine Arts Fall Semester 1958
Boston, Massachusetts
UNIVERSITY & MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
McNay Museum, San Antonio, Texas; "Bus Stop" woodcut, Amy Freeman Lee bequest
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas, "Jazz" Oil on canvas
Texas A&M University Kingsville Art Collection
"Sinton Fiddler's Contest" oil on canvas
"Harvester" oil on canvas
"Psalm of Repentance, David, King of Israel" oil on canvas
"Mariachis" oil on canvas
"Guarneri Quartet" oil on canvas
"Dance of Brotherhood" mural in Old Gym- Dance Studio
"African Jazz Dance" mural in Old Gym- Dance Studio
"Ballet Practice" mural in Old Gym- Dance Studio
"Mr. Ben Bailey" drawing
"Woman in Green Shawl" oil on canvas
"Portrait of Dr. Demas Stinebaugh" oil on canvas
Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, Texas "Nuns" oil on canvas
PUBLICATIONS AND LECTURES
In the Shadow of the Divine: The Tabernacle of Exodus as a Work of Art.
Book, TBA

In the Shadow of the Divine: The Tabernacle of Exodus as a Work of Art, School of Visual Arts First Annual National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists, Algonquin Hotel, New York City, New York 2000.

The Seven-Branched Lamp: The Menorah of Ancient Israel and Its Covenantal Significance, School of Visual Arts Second Annual National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists, Algonquin Hotel, New York City, New York, 2001.

Boxes of Remembrance: The Jewish Ritual of Tefillin As a Symbolic Evocation of the Israelite Tabernacle, School of Visual Arts Third Annual National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists, Algonquin Hotel, New York City, New York, 2002.

National Endowment for the Arts and Displacement in Cultural Cohesion, National Social Science Conference, Reno, Neveda, March 1996. Presented by Dr. Allen Ketcham, co-author. Subsequently published in the National Social Science Journal.

Jewish and Biblical Expression Through South Texas Imagery, Brown Bag Lunch Lecture Series, Conner Museum, Kingsville, Texas, December, 1994.

Portrait of the Artist as a Jew, Lecture to Bnai Israel Synagogue, Novemeber, 1993.

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