Schroeder Art Studios
Schroeder Art Studios
Metalworking Art Workshop
George Schroeder, the founder, owner and director of Schroeder Art Studios, is a native Texas artist, maintaining a working studio in San Antonio, Texas. The artist has operated the same studio in San Antonio for over 20 years; creating mid-size to monumental sculptures, paintings and large scale drawings.
Schroeder studied marketing, visual art and business management at The University of North Texas, receiving a BBA with a minor in marketing. After spending several years in the corporate world and working nights creating sculptures, George decided to open a full time sculpture studio. The artist's combination of skills from the business world, combined with artistic talent, provides a unique situation for his studio environment. This has enabled the artist to build seamless relationships with municipal public art organizations, museums, galleries, architectural firms, corporate art collectors, education institutions and private collectors; all of which have commissioned or purchased works from Schroeder.
In 2010, Schroeder was selected to create an outdoor sculpture for the Aborg International Sculpture Park in southwest Iceland. The artwork will be the inaugural sculpture for the park grand opening in Summer 2017. Other recent events include a major commission for The University Health System in San Antonio; a stand alone monumental sculpture designed to engage the public, as they travel to and from the hospital. George continues to focus on providing his services and skills as a contribution to the built environment, to represent public art at the highest level; not only as a solo artist, but also as a collaborative artist.
In 2013 George was commissioned by a hospital in Texas to create one of the largest shaped-metal sculptures in the U.S. Much of the work was done using the TM Technologies Air Power Hammers. Kent White, visited George on several occasions to lend a hand on the project. You can see a slide show of the project
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Fitting panel work over inner structure for Hippo metal sculpture
Fitting the aluminum and copper details for Hippo sculpture
Finished installation at the San Antonio Zoo
George is hot-forging with his BIG hammer
George welding forged components
Assembling the Synergy stainless steel sculpture
Installation of the Synergy sculpture
Finished Synergy sculpture
