Donnas Schaeffer

fine art black and white photographer, working with film and darkroom techniques, and collage/mixed media artist working with found objects and paper

studied at the International Center of Photography, New York and Maine Media Workshops, Rockport, Maine

have taken a mixed media and two painting workshops at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pa.

Bachelor of Arts
Temple University
Philadelphia, Pa.

Long Beach Island Foundation for the Arts & Sciences
22nd annual Works on Paper juried show
juror: Sarah Suzuki, curator of drawings & prints at MOMA
June 26 - July - July 19
Loveladies, LBI, N.J.

50 off - mixed media

Perkins Center for the Arts Photography 39
annual juried show
Feb -May 2020
Moorestown, N.J.
Marianne: 16 x 20 gelatin silver print


Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
annual juried student exhibition 2019
June 2019
Lola Darling: mixed media

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
annual juried student exhibition 2018
March 2018
Dream Factory: mixed media


Jed Williams Gallery
Philadelphia, Pa.
Feb. 2018
solo exhibit
the Dream Factory: works on paper

Perkins Center for the Arts
Haddonfield, N.J.
Feb, 2018
Photography 37 juried photography show
Chantelle: archival gelatin silver print

Rise Above! Art of the Counterculture
Artworks, Trenton, N.J.
Sept. 2017
Nylon Lips: archival gelatin silver print

Philadelphia Sketch Club
Absolutely Abstract 2017 juried show
Cigar: paper collage BEST of SHOW
Study in Red: paper collage Honorable Mention

Outsider Art juried show
Markeim Art Center, Haddonfield, N.J.
June 2017
Chanel No. 5: paper collage Juror's Choice Award
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