Robert Shreefter

I have an MA in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I was a college English professor for thirteen years and directed workplace/adult literacy programs at North Carolina State University and Duke University. I received an MFA, from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill where I concentrated on painting and printmaking. Joining my interests in art and literacy acquisition/language arts, I studied bookmaking at Penland School in North Carolina. I have done extensive work with children in schools as a special art and literacy resource teacher and as an artist-in-residence. Much of my work has been in summer camps, community organizations-including work with pregnant teens and homeless people-- literacy councils and libraries. I have worked with teachers in workshops throughout North Carolina and through Division of Continuing Education of Massachusetts College of Art. For the spring semester of 1998, I was artist-in-residence at Homerton College, the teacher-education college of Cambridge University, England. Here I worked with graduate and undergraduate art specialists in integrating bookmaking into their teaching practice. I have also taught undergraduates at Art Institute of Boston, studio and art education courses at Mass Art and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. For the past two summers, I have been on the faculty of Art New England. I have exhibited my paintings, prints and books at university and commercial galleries. As a member of the Experimental Etching Studio, I am part of their many group shows.