Today in episode 20 we’re taking a real meander with glass artist Judith Schaechter.
With a glass career that spans 40 years, Judith is one of the most celebrated and decorated glass artists of our time and a force to be reckoned with.
Here’s just a taste of what I mean, and mind you this is not a complete list.
She is the recipient of many grants, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships in Crafts , The Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, The Joan Mitchell Award, two Pennsylvania Council of the Arts awards, The Pew Fellowship in the Arts and a Leeway Foundation grant.
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 Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Corning Museum of Glass, The Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution and numerous other public and private collections.
Judith has taught workshops at numerous venues, including the Pilchuck Glass School in Seattle, the Penland School of Crafts, Toyama Institute of Glass (Toyama, Japan), Australia National University in Canberra Australia.
She has taught courses at Rhode Island School of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy, the New York Academy of Art and at The University of the Arts, where she is ranked as an Adjunct Professor.
Judith’s work was included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial, a collateral exhibition of the Venice Biennale in 2012 and she is a 2008 USA Artists Rockefeller Fellow. In 2013 Judith was inducted to the American Craft Council College of Fellows.
She’s a LEGEND.
Today she’s got some incredible resources to share with us for anyone wanting to get into the elusive gallery world and we dig into her very unique glass process. But she also shares with us some sweet little peeks into who she is outside of her work.
Her enthusiasms for pigeons, who her favorite Beatle and why vacation is a 4 letter word. Judith is not only someone who’s work I admire, but now I know that she’s also the quirky aunt I’ve always wanted. Actually even more than that, the one we all really need. You’ll see what I mean!
Join me as I crack it all wide open!
To see more of Judith’s work, her instagram is @judithschaechter and her website is judithschaechter.com.
Honorable mentions from this episode:
books -
ART/WORK by Heather Bhandari and Jonathan Melber
https://amzn.to/3LbfYD7
Launching Your Art Career: A practical guide for artists by Alix Sloan
https://amzn.to/3J5HVKJ
Library at the Corning Museum
https://www.cmog.org/research/library
Bendheim stainedglass IN NJ
bendheimstainedglass.com
Anything in stained glass in Maryland
anythinginstainedglass.com
Saint Just flash glass -
glassolutions.fr/fr/verrerie-saint-just
Flash glass in French is called "art glass plaque" or verre plaque.
Here is a PDF from Judith that may make it easier to order:
glassolutions.fr/sites/glassolutions.eu
High hart lead
stainedglassexpress.com
DHD metals lead
dhdmetalslead.com
Evo-light (lumi-sheet)
https://www.evo-lite.com
Cornell lab Merlin Bird identifying app
merlin.allaboutbirds.org
Judith’s Eastern State Penitentiary installation
easternstate.org/explore
Rochester Memorial Art Gallery
mag.rochester.edu
Museum of Art and Design in NY
madmuseum.org
Pigeon in the Smithsonian Cher Ami
si.edu/object/cher-am
Mimbres pottery
www.google.com
Unicorn tapestry
metmuseum.org
Jean lurcat
wikipedia.org
Karisa Gregorio:
instagram.com/thirst.glass
Sasha Zhitneva:
instagram.com/sasha_zht
Rick Prigg:
instagram.com/rick_prigg
Glenn Carter:
glenncartergl
Thank you to this episode’s sponsors:
The Stained Glass Association of America
The Professional Trade Association for Architectural Art Glass
Canfield Technologies
Canfield sets the standard for the Stained Glass industry.
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