SEATTLE, WA – The Glass Art Society (GAS) announces the winner of their annual Lifetime Achievement and Lifetime Membership Awards. Congratulations to Judith Schaechter and Natali Rodrigues!
Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award: Judith Schaechter
Established in 1993, the Lifetime Achievement Award is GAS’s highest honor. The award recognizes exceptional achievement in glass art and acknowledges individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the development of the glass arts worldwide.
Judith Schaechter lives and works in Philadelphia. Her work is collected internationally and is represented in the collections of 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. 1n 2013, Judith was inducted to the College of Fellows of the American Craft Council. In 2020-21, Judith’s work was the subject of a retrospective exhibition organized by the Memorial Art Gallery of Rochester, NY, which traveled to the Toledo Museum and the Des Moines Art Center.
Lifetime Membership Award: Natali Rodrigues
Established in 1977, the Lifetime Membership Award recognizes outstanding service to GAS.
Natali Rodrigues is an Associate Professor in the Glass Program at the Alberta University of the Arts in Canada. She is an active volunteer in her community. Her research investigates the experience of liminal space and transformative experience, which finds voice through two distinct making practices: drawing and glass. Her working methodology moves between a meditative making practice and one that is profoundly physical. Her work is an attempt to create a system of cartography of liminal space, where what is marked is not in reference to the physical but rather the transformative.
