Schwegler is the founder of the Yucca Valley Material Lab, a space for thinking and making. From 2015 to 2018 she was the Chair of the Masters in Fine Arts Program in Applied Craft and Design,[2] a program jointly offered by
Pacific Northwest College of Art and
Oregon College of Art and Craft. Schwegler has been included in the 2018 Bellevue Art Museum Biennial, Portland2016 Biennial, the Portland2010 Biennial, and the Oregon Biennial in 1999.
In interviews, Schwegler has expressed "an affinity for the ruin, non-sites and discarded objects".[3] Schwegler calls herself "an urban archaeologist" who prefers "to mine the peripheral ruin, the discarded stuff that is ignored and considered worthless. By reassigning the value and purpose of something recognizable, I emphasize the perforation between what it was and what it has now become."[4] Pulling from the traditions of
craft and
conceptual art, Schwegler uses a variety of mediums, including glass, metal, sculpture, photography, and installation.[5][6]