Fred Schumm, Rowan University's artist-in-residence, is a former U.S. Marine who lived through some of the most horrific battles of World War II. He served at Peleliu, two months of carnage on a tiny Pacific atoll where 12,000 perished and then four long months on the bloodied isle of Okinawa.
Schumm works with various hardwoods, stone, even metals. When World War II ended, Schumm returned to Colorado, where his artwork caught the attention of local newspapers and helped him land a highly competitive Fulbright scholarship to study and work for a year in Italy. Afterward, he spent a winter at MacDowell, the nation's oldest artists' retreat, in Peterborough, New Hampshire and before moving to South Jersey to raise a family, he was a working artist for 10 years in New York City.
