Judith Schaechter

Judith Schaechter was born in Gainesville, FL. She earned a BFA from the Glass Department of the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence. Her work has been exhibited in New York City; Los Angeles; Philadelphia; The Hague, Netherlands; and Växjö, Sweden. Schaechter’s work was included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial, New York City; a collateral exhibition of the Venice Biennale in 2012; and she was a 2008 United States Artists Rockefeller Fellow.

Schaechter is the recipient of grants including a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships in crafts, an award from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, a Joan Mitchell Foundation award, two Pennsylvania Council on the Arts awards, a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, and a Leeway Foundation grant.

Schaechter's work is in public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Corning Museum of Glass, New York; and Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, among others.

Schaechter has taught workshops at the Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle; Penland School of Craft, Bakersville, NC; Toyama Institute of Glass Art, Japan; Australian National University, Canberra; and courses at Rhode Island School of Design; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and University of the Arts, Philadelphia; and New York Academy of Art, New York City. She lives and works in Philadelphia.
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