 In recent years, after a back injury, Schwarz has had to restrict his activities in the creation of wheel-thrown pottery.The large pots that he now creates are the collaborative effort of himself and his son, Gunnar Schwarz, in which the latter does the wheel-throwing, while Dean Schwarz designs the pots’ surfaces and applies the glazes.In 2007, their work was featured in a large retrospective exhibition of Schwarz pottery (along with representative works by Marguerite Wildehain), titled "Dean and Gunnar Schwarz