The Museum of Craft and Design is pleased to announce Judith Schaechter: Super/Natural, on view from October 4, 2025, to February 8, 2026, an exhibition exploring the universality of natural elements, patterns, and ornament as vehicles for meditating on beauty.
At the heart of the exhibition is Schaechter’s most ambitious work to date (also titled Super/Natural), an 8-foot-tall, 5.5-foot-diameter, stained glass dome created during her residency at the Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics. Designed to accommodate a single viewer inside, the artwork represents a three-tiered cosmos that reflects her study of biophilic design and its impact on human consciousness.
In addition to the dome, the exhibition at MCD will feature seven additional artworks by Schaechter, which share themes of natural elements, pattern, ornament, and examine the cultural construction of nature. The work in Judith Schaechter: Super/Natural aims to offer meditation on our psychological and aesthetic relationship to the natural world. Schaechter’s stained glass becomes a lens, both literal and metaphorical, through which visitors are invited to consider how beauty, imagination, and nature are intertwined in shaping human experience.
MCD’s Executive Director, Nora Atkinson, comments, “In a moment marked by environmental and cultural unease, digital saturation, and a growing desire for spaces of reflection, Judith Schaechter: Super/Natural offers a timely and deeply resonant experience. Widely regarded as the foremost living artist working in stained glass, Schaechter has revolutionized the medium through her pioneering techniques and haunting imagery, at times both beautiful and grotesque. The Museum of Craft and Design is honored to present an exhibition that affirms the power of craft as a tv transformative, healing, and intellectually vital force.”
