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Podcast: By All Means
Episode: 104. Hennepin Made Co-founder/Director Jackson Schwartz
Description: “Art is about exploration, process, potential.”
A glassblower by training, Jackson Schwartz is an entrepreneur by instinct. A graduate of the Australian National University, renowned for its glass program, Schwartz returned to the Midwest to teach, and co-founded the Hennepin Made glass lighting studio in 2012 with the goal of creating jobs for his students, and himself. Today, Hennepin Made manufactures lighting for Room & Board and sells direct to consumer while also growing its business clients in commercial architecture and luxury residential design.
You’d think that would be enough to keep the artist-turned-business owner occupied, but Schwartz set his sights on bro...