Discipline: Visual Art

Shirley Scheier

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Seattle, WA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1994
Shirley Scheier is a Seattle-based artist. She received her B.F.A. in painting from the University of Kansas, Lawrence, and an M.F.A. in printmaking from University of Wisconsin, Madison. After having spent her childhood and young adult years in the Kansas City area, Shirley made opportunities to travel and live in other creative communities. Chicago figurative artists, the Prinzhorn Collection, and the women of “The Amazing Decade” were early influences. Artists working outside the accepted trends and staking a claim in the cultural conversation were powerful mentors. Shirley lived in New York in 1979, Scotland in 1985, and Rome in 1995. She has traveled extensively in the U.S., and traveled to Madrid, Paris, and Japan. Her passion for equal opportunity education resulted in a teaching position at the University of Washington, Seattle in 1986. She now lives and works in her private studio on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington.

Studios

Putnam

Shirley Scheier worked in the Putnam studio.

The Graphics Studio (as it was originally named) was converted to its present use in 1972–1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation, and originally served the property as both a power house and pump house. Well water was pumped from a large cistern to Hillcrest, the Foreman’s Cottage, and the lower buildings closer to…

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