Shirley Scheier's works-on-paper are visual meditations on the relationship between environment and sense of self. Her work evokes empathy for the human condition and quest for spiritual transformation. Scheier states, "I believe my strongest printmaking rises out of the materials and working methods: the image does not pre-exist the process, but is found in the creative working methods that merge image with materials."

Scheier is an Associate Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Washington, Seattle where she has taught drawing and printmaking since 1986. Her work is in numerous public and private collections including the Seattle Art Museum, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland, Franklin Furnace Artist Books Collection at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, the Instituto des Artes Grafica, Oaxaca.

Shirley Scheier is actively engaged in the Seattle artists' community. Projects Scheier has organized are reviewed in Graphion: International Journal of Prints, Artists' Books, and Paper Art, "The Extended Print Symposium, vol. 15/16, 2000. She is included in "Contemporary Printmakers in the Northwest", by Lois Allan. She lectures nationally and internationally and is a McDowell Colony fellow.

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