Judith Schaechter is one of 50 USA Fellows for 2008. The Philadelphia artist, known for taking stained glass where you might not expect it to go, receives $50,000 along with the award.
I particularly like this thought from Schaechter's website:
I have a crisis about every three years or so when I not only feel I am in a rut with glass but actually tell everyone I am quitting. Like anyone who’s ever truly loved something, I regularly DESPISE IT WITH ALL MY HEART. But I always go back to it. The fact is I feel my medium is a separate and living entity with which I have a relationship not unlike a marriage. Glass seems to love me back unlike anything else I’ve ever worked with and therefore, no matter how bad things get, there’s always incentive to “try to work it out”.
Her Constellation is pictured here.
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Artist Judith Schaechter A USA Fellow
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