Artist Talk: Judith Schaecter

Glass artist Judith Schaechter discusses her practice in terms of the Arts & Crafts movement in Philadelphia, her teaching career at The University of the Arts, and the tension between what is made by humans and what is made by AI. Schaechter’s work "Our Dead Bodies" is featured in the exhibition Workshop of the World as a Philadelphia-based artist whose output is built on the legacy of the Arts & Craft movement. Featuring 250 works of American furniture, ceramics, stained glass, metalwork, textiles, paintings, sculpture, and works on paper by Philadelphia-area artists, architects, manufacturers, and institutions, the exhibition Workshop of the World explores makers who embraced the Arts and Crafts movement’s principals of handwork, simplicity in design, and truth to materials with the goal of transforming the things people lived with and how they were made. About the Artist: Judith Schaechter is an internationally collected glass artist represented in the collections of the Smithsonian, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Victoria and Albert in London and the Hermitage, among others. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005 and her work was in the 2002 Whitney Biennial. In 2013, Schaechter was inducted to the College of Fellows of the American Craft Council. She received a lifetime achievement award from the Glass Art Society in 2022 and in 2023, she was named a Smithsonian Visionary Artist.