Ivan Schwartz is the Founder and Director of StudioEIS. He is a visual storyteller, whose work can be seen in museums and public squares throughout America. Painter, sculptor, draftsman, and inventor, his work now spans five decades. The archive of that work can be found at the Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas in Austin in an area dedicated to the study of American symbols.

He speaks regularly about history and American symbols. Ivan has had conversations with Jonathan Alger on the Making the Museum Podcast and Doris Kearns Goodwin at the Lyndon Johnson Presidential Library and has appeared in Paul H. Moon’s documentary film on the American Revolution and on the CBS Sunday Morning show celebrating the Kenney Center’s 50th Anniversary and the making of the JFK sculpture.

Ivan’s sculptures include Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, other Presidents of the United States, the 42 signers of the United States Constitution at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, and Civil Rights leaders. His recent and ongoing projects include: The Barack Obama Presidential Library, The Clara Luper Sit-In Plaza in Oklahoma City, The Kennedy Center in DC, and the new Alamo Museum and Visitor Center in San Antonio, TX.