LIZ YOSHIKO SCHMIDT

Performer

LIZ YOSHIKO SCHMIDT has been skating with ITNY since 2017. Luscious edges, artistic movement, and ice dance inform her skating and professional career, which began in 2013 at the age of 18. She has performed across Europe, Egypt, and the US, most recently in Switzerland with Art on Ice. A Japanese and German American skater who hails from Chicago, IL, Schmidt approaches the ice as an artist. She holds a BFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute and is the founder of Dansu Wear, an ice fashion line extending her practice into form and design.