Miriam Schaer
{{Short description|American artist}}
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| birth_place = Buffalo, New York
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Miriam Schaer (born 1956) is an American artist who creates artist books,{{Cite book |title=500 Handmade Books: inspiring interpretations of a timelss form, Volume 2 |publisher=Lark Crafts, an Imprint of Sterling Publishing Co. Inc |others=Juried by Julie Chen |year=2013 |isbn=978-1-4547-0753-0 |editor-last=Kopp |editor-first=Linda |edition=1st |location=New York |pages=125}} and installations, prints, collage, photography, and video in relation to artists' books. She also is a teacher of the subject.
Career
Miriam Schaer was born in Buffalo, New York. She did her B.F.A. at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia; the School of Visual Arts, New York; and Boston University; and her M.F.A. at the Transart Institute, Creative Practice, Plymouth University, Plymouth UK.{{cite web |title=Miriam Schaer |url=https://www.pratt.edu/faculty_and_staff/bio/?id=YUliUG9zWGpwaVRSZGI2a1hndlpxUT09 |website=www.pratt.edu |publisher=Pratt Institute |access-date=11 May 2022}}{{cite book |last1=Isaacs |first1=J. Susan |title=The Book: A Contemporary View |year=2011 |publisher=Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Towson University. Center for the Arts Gallery |isbn=9781257947195 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JRJVAwAAQBAJ&dq=miriam+schaer%2C+the+tate%2C+collection&pg=PA39 |access-date=11 May 2022}}
Schaer explores feminine, social and spiritual issues using books and different materials.{{cite web |title=Miriam Schaer |url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/about/feminist_art_base/miriam-schaer |website=www.brooklynmuseum.org |publisher=Brooklyn Museum |access-date=11 May 2022}} Her work has been exhibited and cataloged internationally at venues including at the Brooklyn Public Library,Six Wives for the Brothers Grimm, exhibition, 2004,[https://web.archive.org/web/20150513042240/http://www.bklynlibrary.org/events/exhibitions/six-wives-brothers-grimm Six Wives for the Brother's Grimm, Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn], NY. the New Orleans Museum of Art,Book Marks: Artists Respond to Text, exhibition, 2011, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA. and the Brooklyn Museum of Art,[https://web.archive.org/web/20180203064342/https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/exhibitions/701 Working in Brooklyn: Artists Books], in Brooklyn, NY. In 2000, she had a Douglas Library Show at Rutgers University in New Brunswick NJ (the oldest continuously running exhibition showcasing women artists).{{cite web |title=Miriam Scher |url=https://www3.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/news/archive_00/2000_03_binding_ties.shtml |website=www3.libraries.rutgers.edu |publisher=Rutgers U |access-date=17 May 2022}} In 2015, during a conference on "Motherhood and Creative Practice" at London's South Bank University, she exhibited her work in the accompanying exhibition Alternative Maternals.{{cite web |title=Motherhood and Creative Practice |url=https://www.lsbu.ac.uk/about-us/news/lsbu-conference-griselda-pollock |website=www.lsbu.ac.uk |date=13 November 2015 |publisher=South Bank University, London |access-date=12 May 2022}} She is the recipient of many prestigious awards including The Soros Arts and Culture Grant,Soros Foundation Project Grant: Crafting Womens Stories: Lives in Georgian Felt, 2012. the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship,{{Cite web|url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/NYFA_WebAssets/Pictures/6b2ad3f7-2970-4032-9d75-d886c72943cd.pdf|title=Directory of Artists' Fellows 1985-2013|last=New York Foundation for the Arts|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160918010711/http://s3.amazonaws.com/NYFA_WebAssets/Pictures/6b2ad3f7-2970-4032-9d75-d886c72943cd.pdf|archive-date=2016-09-18|url-status=}} and received a Fulbright to the Republic of Georgia (2017).{{cite web |title=Grants 2017 |url=https://www.cies.org/grantee/miriam-schaergrantee/miriam-schaer |website=www.cies.org |publisher=Fulbright |access-date=17 May 2022}} Her work is included in public collections such as the Yale University Art Museum, the Azerbaijan Museum, in Baku, Azerbaijan; the Tate Gallery, London, England, the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis {{cite web |title=Collection |url=https://walkerart.org/collections/artists/miriam-schaer |website=walkerart.org |publisher=Walker Art Center, Minneapolis |access-date=17 May 2022}} and in Canada in the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa.{{cite web |title=Miriam Scher: The Heart of the Matter |url=https://rmg.minisisinc.com/m3online/scripts/mwimain.dll/4/1/0?SEARCH&SHOWSINGLE=Y&ERRMSG=[M3ONLINE]error.html |website=rmg.minisisinc.com |publisher=Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa |access-date=11 May 2022}} It has been mentioned in reviews in the New York Times[https://web.archive.org/web/20180202130622/http://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/25/arts/art-in-review-artists-books.html Artist Books at The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Art in Review by Grace Glueck, The New York Times, February 2000] and she is included in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art: Feminist Art Base.Brooklyn Museum, [https://web.archive.org/web/20180304175334/https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/miriam-schaer Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art: Feminist Art Base: Miriam Schaer] From 2009 to 2016, she was a senior lecturer at [https://web.archive.org/web/20130318172224/http://www.colum.edu/Academics/Interarts/interdisciplinary-arts/faculty.php Columbia College Chicago Interdisciplinary Arts], in the Interdisciplinary MFA Program in Book and Paper and in 2006-2010 and 2022, she taught the "Art of the Book" at the Pratt Institute as an assistant professor where she is on the faculty.
References
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Bibliography
- {{cite journal |title=Alterations: The Work of the Altered Book Artist Miriam Schaer |journal=Journal of Art for Life |date=2013-09-26 |last=Fattal |first=Laura Rachel |volume=5 |issue=1 |url=https://static1.squarespace.com/static/540388c8e4b0132427c36bb1/t/596a85088419c2c5950613a3/1500153102371/AlterationsMiriam+Schaer_Fattal_JournalofArtforLife.pdf |accessdate=2018-03-04 }}
- {{cite book |last1=Klein |first1=Jennie |title="The Mother Without Child / The Child Without Mother: Miriam Schaer's Interrogation of Maternal Ideology, Reproductive Trauma, and Death" in Inappropriate Bodies: Art, Design, and Maternity |date=2019 |publisher=Demeter Press|isbn=9781772582550 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U9vhDwAAQBAJ |access-date=17 May 2022}}
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Category:American women book artists
Category:American book artists
Category:American women printmakers
Category:Artists from Brooklyn
Category:Artists from Buffalo, New York
Category:American feminist artists
Category:Columbia College Chicago faculty
Category:21st-century American women artists