<p>Between 1935 and 1943 the government-funded Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) sought to keep artists throughout the country working by creating projects that would benefit the public. In Rochester, the Memorial Art Gallery s director, Gertrude Herdle Moore, administered the WPA art program, while Isabel Herdle, her sister and the Gallery s curator, was on the program s committee. In 1937, Rochester s WPA art project was called the most interesting and effective outside of New York City by the regional director of the Federal Art Project. Rochester s model program hosted and administered by the Memorial Art Gallery funded several mural groups by the artist Carl W. Peters. This is the catalog for the exhibition of the same name at the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, October 18, 2015 January 3, 2016.</p>

Art for the People: Carl W. Peters and the Rochester WPA Murals

Jessica Marten

Karal Ann Marling

A. Joan Saab

Arts & Photography

Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester

<p>From her start in the 1980s, Judith Schaechter (b. 1961) has stretched the medium of stained glass into an incisive art form for the twenty-first century, boldly paving her path in the diverse arena of contemporary art. With deep respect for history, a provocative rebelliousness, and a feminist sensibility, Schaechter has aptly been called a post-punk stained-glass sorceress. This catalog accompanies The Path to Paradise: Judith Schaechter s Stained-Glass Art, the first survey and major scholarly assessment of this groundbreaking artist s 37-year career. This catalog explores the range of critical registers Schaechter s work spans, illuminating and contextualizing the artist s unique contributions to the contemporary canon. Judith Schaechter s work is represented in over a dozen museums including the Carnegie Museum of Art, Corning Museum of Glass, Mint Museum, Museum of Arts and Design, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Speed Art Museum, and Toledo Museum of Art, and in major exhibitions around the world. In addition, through her extensive teaching, she has had a sizable impact upon her peers and the next generations of artists. Her awards include two NEA Visual Artists Fellowships, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a USA Artists Fellowship, and an American Craft Council College of Fellows Award.</p>

The Path to Paradise

Individual Artists

RIT Press

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