Not Your Mother's Stained Glass
Taught by Judith Schaechter
Judith lives and works in Philadelphia. She has exhibited internationally and is the recipient of many grants, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, The Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, The Joan Mitchell Award, The Pew Fellowship in the Arts and a Leeway Foundation grant and she is a 2008 USA Artists Rockefeller Fellow. Her work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Hermitage in Russia, The Corning Museum of Glass, The Renwick Gallery and numerous other collections. Judith's work was included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial, Glasstress in Venice, 2012. In 2013 Judith was inducted to the American Craft Council College of Fellows.
In this lecture, Judith Schaechter will discuss the design and technical aspects of her groundbreaking stained glass work. How do ideas become artworks anyway? Judith will discuss how she wrestles the immaterial into physical matter and how she often goes through multiple iterations before coming to any sort of resolution.
Following the lecture, Judith will present a rousing demonstration of her techniques and design process accompanied by irreverent commentary. In terms of technique, Judith will show multiple unique strategies for creating vivid, dreamlike images in stained glass many of which she has pioneered. These include sandblasting, engraving and hand filing multiple layers of flash glass. There will be many samples for first-hand perusal.
