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CV

Selected CV

SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

• 2008

• • Altars of the Invisible, Tomasulo Gallery, Union County College, Cranford, NJ

• 2007

• • Defining/ReDefining the Book, Marguerite & James Hutchins Gallery, Gruss Center for Visual Arts, Lawrenceville, NJ

• 2005

• • Chapel of Uncommon Prayers, Whitewater Gallery, North Bay, Ontario, Canada

• 2004

• • Six Wives for the Brothers Grimm, Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Plaza

• 2001

• • Solitary Confinements: A Family Portrait, Installation, Ceres Project Room, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY

• 2000

• • Binding Ties: Girdle Books and Other Meditations, Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, Mabel Smith Douglas Library, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (catalog)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• 2009

• • Sculptural Books, Brandstater Gallery, La Sierra Univ, Riverside, CA Curated by Jean Clad
• • Rare Editions, Lehman College, Bronx, NY Curated by Susan Fleminger

• 2008

• • African Belief Influences on Contemporary Altars, The Geoffrey Yeh Art Gallery, St. John’s University, Queens NY Curated by Liza Papi (catalog)
• • Mapping Correspondence, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY, NY

• 2007

• • Imagining the Book 2007 Biennale, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt Curated by Suzanne Reese Horvitz and Robert Roesch
• • From The Inside Out: Feminist Art Then & Now, The Geoffrey Yeh Art Gallery, St. John’s University, Queens NY Curated by Claudia Sbrissa (catalog)

• 2006

• • Unstitched, Unbound: Imprints for Change, Nathan Cummings Foundation, NY, NY

• 2005

• • Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Cheongju, South Korea (catalog)
• • Dialog: NY/Paris Printmakers, Cité des Arts in Paris; Center for Book Arts, Abrons Art Center & Long Island University in New York City Curated by Maddy Rosenberg (catalog)

• 2003

• • Altered Books: Spine Bending Thrillers, Rider University Gallery, Lawrenceville, NJ

• 2001

• • Examining Our Breasts, LeBel Gallery, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada

• 1998

• • Reincarnation: Book, Eleventh Tallinn Print Triennial, Gallery of the City of Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia (catalog)

MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS

• 2008

• • Beyond Reading, Suffolk Museum of Art, Suffolk, VA. Curated by Trudi Van Dyke
• • Authors of Mischief/Banned Books, Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia, PA

• 2006

• • Telling the Story, The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ. Curated by A.M. Weaver
• • Edges of Grace, Fuller Museum, Brockton, MA. Curated by Gail M. Brown (catalog)

• 2004

• • Corporal Identity: Body Language, 9th Frankfurt Triennial, Museum Für Angewandte Kunst, Germany, and the Museum of Art & Design, New York, NY Curated by David Revere McFadden and Ursula Neumann (catalog)

• 2002

• • Material Witnesses: The Socio-Political in Contemporary Textile Art, The Goldstein Museum, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

• 2000

• • Working in Brooklyn: Artists Books, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY (catalog)

GRANTS

• 2003

• • NYFA Artist Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
• • Trust for Mutual Understanding, Grant to teach book arts program in tandem with environmentally-friendly printmaking at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade, Serbia

• 2001

• • Puffin Foundation, Grant for "Solitary Confinements: A Family Portrait," NY, NY

RESIDENCIES

• 2007

• • Imagining the Book 2007, Artist Residency, Biennale Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt

• 2004

• • Sanskriti Kendra, Artist in Residence, Delhi, India

• 1999

• • Situacionnes, Facultad de Bellas Artes, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca, Spain

• 1998

• • Printline Exchange Residency, Academy of Fine Arts Printshop, Belgrade, Serbia

COLLECTIONS

• Arts of the Book, Yale University, New Haven, CT

• Mata & Arthur Jaffe Collection: Book as Aesthetic Object, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL

• Brooklyn Museum of Art

• Alan Chasanoff Bookworks Collection, NY, NY

• Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History & Culture, Duke Univ., Durham, NC

• University of Washington, Seattle, WA

• UC Irvine, CA

• Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA

• Centre for Fine Print Research, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

PUBLICATIONS Works Featured in Articles and Reviews

• 500 Handmade Books: Inspiring Interpretations of a Timeless Form, Lark Books, 2008

• An Intimate Affair: Women, Lingerie, and Sexuality, Jill Fields, Univ. of CA Press, 2007

• New Directions in Altered Books, Gabe Cyr, Lark Books, 2006

• Artist Portfolio: Miriam Schaer, Somerset Studio, Ricë Freeman-Zachery, May/June 2003

• Miriam Schaer: Sharing What You Know, Interview by Judith Hoffberg, Umbrella, Sept. 2002

• Inside Miriam Schaer's Girdle Books, Lynne Cothern, FiberArts Magazine, March/April 2001

TEACHING AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY VISITING ARTIST AND LECTURER

• Pratt Institute, Visiting Artist-Lecturer, Brooklyn, NY, 2006-2009

• Visiting Artist, Marshal University, Huntington, WV, 2008

• Sarah Lawrence College, Visiting Artist, Writing Institute, Bronxville, NY, 2005

• Colorado College, Visiting Artist, Colorado Springs, CO, 2003

• Faculty of Fine Art, University of Belgrade, Artist in Residency, Serbia and Montenegro, 2003

• Univ. of the West of England, Centre for Fine Print Research, Special Lecturer, Bristol,England, 2001

• Rutgers Center for Innovative Paper and Print, Special Lecturer, New Brunswick, NJ, 1998, 2000

• Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Facultad de Bellas Artes, Visiting Artist, Cuenca, Spain, 1999

GUEST LECTURER AND PANELIST

• 10th New Jersey Book Arts Symposium, Book Arts in the Digital Environment,

• Dana Library, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, Presenter, 2004

• Textile Study Group of NY, New York, NY, Special Guest Lecturer, 2002

• Beverly Hills Public Library, Los Angeles, CA, Guest Lecturer, 2002

• Printline Exchange Panel, Cinema Rex, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1998

ARTIST CENTER CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS

• Center for Book Arts

• Lower East Side Printshop

• Pyramid Atlantic

• Print Council of NJ

• Arts Council of Princeton

• Peter's Valley Art Center

• Book Arts Roundtable,

ARTIST IN THE SCHOOLS AND STAFF DEVELOPMENT

Artist Teacher Institute with Arts Horizons and New Jersey State Council on the Arts, William Patterson University, Wayne, NJ, 2000-2009

• Artist in the Schools, artist residencies, in the New York City Public Schools and in the NY/NJ/CT region with

• Artist's Space

• Arts Horizons

• The Henry Street Settlement

• City Lore

EDUCATION

• Philadelphia College of Art (University of the Arts), BFA, Philadelphia, PA

• School of Visual Arts, BFA, New York, NY

• Boston University, Boston, MA

• Writing for Artists with Arlene Raven, New York, NY

• Academia Español Guatemala, Antigüa, Guatemala

• Centro de Estudios Lingüisticos y Multiculturales, Cuernavaca, México

• Center for Book Arts, New York, NY

• Lower East Side Print Shop, New York, NY

• Private Studies with Timothy Ely and Jeffrey Peachey, New York, NY

AFFILIATIONS

• Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art Base at the Brooklyn Museum

• Center for Book Arts

• New York Foundation for the Arts

• College Art Association

• Artist’s Space

• National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC