Miriam Schaer

Miriam Schaer is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist who uses books, garments, photography, installation, and collage to explore feminine, social, and spiritual issues. She earned a BFA with a concentration in fiber from Philadelphia College of Art (now University of the Arts) and an MFA from Transart Institute for Creative Research at the University of Plymouth, England.

Schaer’s work has been exhibited at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts and the Center for Book Arts, New York City; Evanston Art Center, IL; International Museum of Women, San Francisco; Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA; Museum of Arts and Design, New York City; Creative Arts Workshop and Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University, New Haven, CT; Experimental Graphics Studio (Taller Experimental de Grafica), Havana, Cuba; San Francisco Center for the Book; Free Library of Philadelphia; Center for Book Arts in New York City; and Imagining the Book Biennale 2007 at Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt.

She is represented in public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Watson Library, Special Collections, New York City; Florida Atlantic University’s Jaffe Center for Book Arts, Boca Raton; Duke University’s Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History & Culture, Durham, NC; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Brooklyn Museum, New York City; Museum of Miniature Books, Baku, Azerbaijan; Swarthmore College, PA; Tate Gallery, London; and Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Seattle, WA.
_{—From Brandywine Workshop and Archives records}