An American enamel artist who creates tactile, expressive objects by applying technical mastery of her medium to vessel forms and plaques, which she considers nonfunctional sculpture. Designated a Living Treasure of California in 1985, Schwarcz also received the James Renwick Alliance Masters of the Medium Award (2009). Since the late 1950s her work has appeared in numerous exhibitions and has been the subject of solo shows at the San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum (1998) and the Mingel International Museum in San Diego (2009–10).