Jennie Traill Schaeffer

Jennie Traill Schaeffer is a teaching artist, who recently relocated her home studio to Durham, NC, via West Orange, NJ, from her birthplace of Easton, PA.

Rooted in subject matter that venerates objects and places, her works asks the viewer to stay a bit longer, look deeper and to slow down. She is informed by a developing meditative practice and exploration of her surrounding environments. While much of her work is non-figurative, her work strives to embody figurative energy, vibrant colors and the use of paint as the vehicle of expression, with linear drawn elements.

Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse, NY
BFA, Dual Major in Painting / Art Education, magna cum laude, 2000

Study Abroad, Syracuse University, Florence, Italy, 1999

Wearing all the Hats, Artist/Mother Network, 2022

SELECTED JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2020
Personal Landscapes, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Yellowstone Art Auction 52, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT
State of the Art 2020, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ
Jam at Mam, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Inspiring Minds, Herb & Milly Iris Gallery at SOPAC, South Orange, NJ

2019
Art at the Esplanade, Mountain Lakes, NJ
3rd Annual Juried Show: Mixed Media, Bethlehem House Contemporary Art Gallery, Bethlehem, PA
Inspiring Minds, Valley Arts Community Gallery, Orange, NJ

2018
Art to Go, Studio Montclair Gallery, Montclair, NJ
Inspiring Minds, Valley Arts Community Gallery, Orange, NJ
Optimism in Action, Peg Williams Gallery, Madison, NJ

2017
Friends of Arts Unbound, The Dora Stern Gallery at Arts Unbound, Orange, NJ
Optimism in Action, Peg Williams Gallery, Madison, NJ
Optimism in Action, Museum of Early Trade & Craft, Madison, NJ
Art and Poetry HaHa, The Rectangle Studio & Gallery, Orange, NJ
Petit Deux, Emerge Gallery, Saugerties, NY

2016
Petit: a group exhibition of smaller art, Emerge Gallery, Saugerties, NY
Great Spirits Among Us, Nails in the Wall Gallery, Metuchen, NJ
Gaelen Juried Art Show & Sale 2016, Gaelen Gallery West...