Judith Winston-Schlecter is an artist who received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design Glass Program. She has been the recipient of numerous prestigious grants and awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships in crafts, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, the Joan Mitchell Award, two Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Awards, the Pew Fellowship in the Arts, and a grant from the Leeway Foundation.