Frances Jetter’s work has been shown throughout the U.S. and in Europe.

Selected Exhibitions:
Solo Shows

“Cry Uncle”, Smilow Gallery, NYU Langone Medical Center, NYC, November 2010,
traveled to Parsons School of Design, 8th Floor display cases, NYC, April, 2011
and to Cohen Library Archives Gallery, City College of New York, November 2011
“Bronze Bodies,” Broadway Windows, New York University, New York, NY, 2002
Davidson Galleries, Pioneer Square, Seattle, WA, 1992, 1983
Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, 1991

Group Shows:

“Carrier Pigeon Artists”, Governor’s Island Art Fair, N.Y., N.Y. 2012
“2012 Printmaking Invitational”, Miller Gallery, Kutztown University, Kutztown, Pa., 2012
“Permanent Collection”. Nancy Margolis Gallery, Chelsea, N.Y., 2012
“Frances Jetter and Irving Grunbaum”, The Studio on Slough Road, Brewster on Cape Cod, Ma. 2012
“Rolling Stone and the Art of the Record Review,” Society of Illustrators, NYC 2011
“New World Border,”  La Pena Cultural Center, Berkeley, CA, traveled to venues including Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA, The Hive, Phoenix, Az, Raices Cultural Center, NJ, The Roots Factory, Barrio Logan, CA, Swathmore College and Ingram Chapman Gallery, University of New Mexico, 2011
‘Visions in Print,” Allegra LaViola Gallery, Lower Eastside, NY, 2011
“Carrier Pigeon Artists” Sacred Gallery, NYC, 2011
“It’s All Good,” Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 2011
“Ink Plots: the Tradition of the Graphic Novel”, Visual Arts Gallery, Chelsea, NYC, October 2010
“Food and Form,” Dadian Gallery, Wesley Theological Seminary. Washington, DC, 2010, traveled to Mary Davis Holt Gallery, Salem Fine Arts Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. 2011
“NeoIntegrity: Comics Edition”, Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art, New York, N.Y., 2010
“Dark Visions”, Sacred Gallery, Soho, NYC, 2010
‘New Faculty (3 artists) The Gallery at Castle Hill, Truro Center for the Arts, Cape Cod, Ma., 2010
“The Great Small Works Temporary Toy Theater Museum” (9th International), St. Ann’s Warehouse, DUMBO, Brooklyn, 2010
“Earth, Fragile Planet”, The Society of Illustrators, NYC, 2010
“Lasting Impressions”, Mary Davis Holt Gallery, Salem Fine Arts Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. 2010
“The Peaceable Kingdom”, University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City, the Philippines, 2010
“It’s a Wonderful 10th”, Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 2010
“Insight: Contemporary Approaches to Drawing”, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY, 2009
“Dime Bag 3”, Giant Robot NYC, 2009
“It’s a Wonderful Life”, Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 2009
“Art of Democracy: War & Empire”, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA., 2008
“Art of The Times (Times Four)” Bernstein Gallery, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University,
Princeton N.J., 2008
“Panorama 3”, Jonathan LeVine Gallery, Chelsea, NY, 2008
“The Art of Democracy”, The National Arts Club, NY, NY, 2008
“8th International Toy Theatre Festival”, Great Small Works, St. Ann’s Warehouse, DUMBO, Brooklyn, 2008
“Peace” Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 2008
“Artists Against the War”, Society of Illustrators, NY, NY, 2008
“War is Over (Again)”, Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 2007
“Picturing Health”, The Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA, 2007, traveled to Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Ct, 2007, the Center for Disease Control, Atlanta Georgia, 2008, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Michigan, 2008, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile Alabama, 2009, El Paso Museum of Art, Tx, 201, and other museums through 2012
“A Piece Apart”, Aidan Savoy Gallery, New York, NY, 2006
“Private and Published”, Westchester Community College, Valhalla, N.Y., 2006
“The Art of Persuasion”, The New York Society of Etchers, The National Arts Club, New York, N.Y., 2006
Gallery Artists, “New Prints”, Davidson Galleries, Pioneer Square, Seattle, WA, 2006
“War is Over”, Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 2006
“Merry Peace“, Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 2004
“Another Voice” Political Art from The Progressive Magazine- Maryland Institute College of Art, 2004, Memphis College of Art, 2005
Fever Lines: “20+ Years of INX” (editorial art), an exhibition traveling to museums and galleries throughout North America and Europe including Chung-Cheng Gallery at St. John’s University, Queens, NY, Lowe Gallery of Syracuse University, Parsons School of Design, NY, NY, Triangle Gallery in cooperation with The Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary Canada, Gallery 9 at The New York Times, NY, Museum of Caricature and Cartoon Art, Warsaw, Poland. 2001-2006
“The Winter Print Salon”, The New York Society of Etchers, The Garage, Park Slope, Brooklyn, 2005
“Cut, Bite, and Stroke, Techniques in Printmaking” Firehouse Art Gallery, Nassau Community College, Garden City, N.Y, 2004
“Printmaking Now”, Westchester Gallery, SUNY, Westchester Community College, White Plains, N.Y, 2003
“Body Language” Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, 2002
“Contemporary Relief Prints” Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA, 2002
“ Politics and Conflicts” Show at “House of Docs” Gallery at the Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah, 2002
“Body Work,” The Work Space, New York. NY, 2001
“A Century of Women Illustrators” San Jose State University Art Galleries, San Jose, CA, 2001
“Eye on America: The 1990’s” The Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge MA. 1999-2000
“La Jeune Gravure Contemporaine et Ses Invités des U.S.A.”, Paris, 1995
“Drawn to Politics,” Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, 1995
“The Women’s Room” at Parson's School of Design, NY, NY, 1994
“The Art of Politics”, San Jose State University Art Galleries, San Jose, CA, 1993
“Artists of the Nation”, an exhibition that traveled to museums and galleries throughout the United States, including
the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery of Columbia University in New York City, the Carpenter Center of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Peace Museum in Chicago, and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. 1990-92
“Images of Labor-The Nineties”, Gallery 1199, NY, NY, 1991
“The Public Eye”, SMU Gallery of Southeastern Massachusetts University, 1987
Atrium Gallery of the University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1987

Collections:

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University - Cambridge, Massachusetts
The Detroit Institute of Arts - Detroit, Michigan
The New York Public Library Print Collection - Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, New York City
Grinnell College, Print and Drawing Study Room, Grinnell, Iowa
The Library of Congress, Rare Books and Special Collections, Washington, D.C.
The New York Public Library, Spencer Collection, New York City
Miami University Libraries, Special Collections, Oxford, Ohio
Plymouth State University, Lamson Library, Plymouth, New Hampshire
Lafayette College, Special Collections, Skillman Library, Easton, Pennsylvania
Charles E. Young Research Library, Special Collections, UCLA, California
University of Washington Library, Special Collections, Seattle, Washington
Ringling School of Art and Design, Kimbrough Library, Artist Book Collections, Sarasota, Florida
Rhode Island School of Design, Special Collections, Fleet Library, Providence, R.I.
Williams College, Chapin Library, Special Collections, Williamstown, MA.
Stanford University, Art and Architecture Library, Stanford, California
University of Colorado, Norlin Library, Special Collections, Boulder, Colorado
University of Denver, Penrose Library, Special Collections, Denver, Colorado

Fellowships and Grants:

New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts, 2011
Puffin Foundation, Ltd. Grant, 2010                                
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Printmaking/Drawing/ Artist’s Books. 2003

Awards and Annuals include:

Honorary Mention Award for “Cry Uncle,” Pyramid Atlantic Book Arts Fair, Silver Spring, Maryland 2010

Graphis, Print, Communication Arts, Society of Publication Designers, Society of Newspaper Designers, Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, Print’s Best Typography 2, Outstanding American Illustrators Today - Tokyo, and Two Hundred Years of American Illustration.

Selected Bibliography and Reviews

“On the Issue Magazine, the Art Perspective, Frances Jetter-Printmaking cuts into the hypocrisy of War,” Summer, 2011(* Click to view)

“Artists Against the War,” Underwood Books, 2010

“The Daily Heller, imprint, Print Magazine, The Torture Among Us,” Steven Heller, November 8th, 2010

“All the Art That’s Fit to Print (And Some That Wasn’t Inside the New York Times Op-ed Page)” by Jerelle Krauss, 2008 (* Click to view )

"Bold in Timid Times", by Anthony Stoeckert, Packet Online for Central Jersey, April 30, 2008 (* Click for review )

“Gratistmos - Frances Jetter by Felipe Hernández Cava,  Exit Express- Periodico Mesual de Informacion y Debate Sobre Arte, Madrid, No. 14, October, 2005

“The Design of Dissent” edited by Milton Glaser and Mirko Ilic, Rockport Publishers, 2005

*Helen A. Harrison,” Cosmic Forces and Other Problems of Everyday Life” (Cut, Bite, and Stroke)  The New York Times, March 21, 2004

Helen A. Harrison, “Works Use the Human Body as Springboard”The New York Times, Sunday, May 12, 2002 (* Click for review )

The Best of “The Nation”- Selections from the Independent Magazine of Politics & Culture  Edited by Victor Navasky & Katrina vanden Heuvel-Thunder’s Mouth Press/Nation Books, 2000

Delores Tarzan “Jetter specializes in Political Art”The Seattle Times, June 17, 1983 (* Click on for review )

Visual #47- Barcelona

Design Monthly #7- Seoul

HOW - Jan/Feb 1988 - U.S.A.

GRAPHIS #198, #236 - Zurich

IDEA # 157 - Tokyo

Since 1976, Frances Jetter’s prints have illustrated social and political commentary in publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME Magazine, The Village Voice, The Nation, and The Progressive.
She has designed book jackets for Knopf, Macmillan, and others.

Artist’s Advisory Board:  The Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge MA. 2003- Present

Teaching: School of Visual Arts, NY, NY from 1979 to the present.

Visiting Artist: 

University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, guest critic for the MFA Printmaking/Book Arts Program and the Arthur Williams Lecture, 2010
Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, , the Mary Lou Friedman Chair, , Cape Cod, MA., 2010                 
Smithsonian Resident Associate Program
Rhode Island School of Design
Washington University
Montclair State University
Ringling School of Art and Design
Virginia Commonwealth University
University of Connecticut, Storrs
University of Buffalo
Syracuse University
Savannah College of Art and Design, 1991
Nassau Community College, 2004
Narae Design Culture, Seoul, Korea

Education: Parson's School of Design, BFA

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