It has been suggested that Judith Schaechter works in soiled -- rather than stained -- glass. In her earlier works, Schaechter never averted her gaze from the violent underside of human behavior, picking and tearing until it bled, opening a wound over and over again. Images of rape, murder, mindless cruelty have gradually given way to situations in which single characters stoically accept their fate, often with the ecstatic grins of soon-to-be martyred saints. A woman sleeps in a boat on a horizonless ocean. A cyclone approaches, but the figure in the foreground is too absorbed by the smell of the flowers carried on the gusting winds to run for cover. Ms. Schaechter received her B.F.A. in 1983 from Rhode Island School of Design. Her many awards include a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, two National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowships and two Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Craftsman Fellowships. Her works have appeared nationally in group and individual exhibitions, and are in the permanent collections of leading national museums. Ms. Schaechter's work has been the subject of one-person exhibits at the Renwick Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, Morris Gallery at the Museum of American Art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; and included in group shows at Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Philadelphia Art Alliance among others. In addition to her work as a stained glass artist, Ms. Schaechter is a musician in the Philadelphia band Ken and has designed numerous record album covers.