Employment

• Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair at Powerhouse Arts, March 2025
• Baltimore Fine Art Print Fair, April 2021–August 2025
• Platemark Podcast, May 2021–present
• Shout Consulting, September 2017–present
• Baltimore Museum of Art, March 2000–August 2017
• National Gallery of Art, March 1991–March 1998
• Williams College Museum of Art, September 1988–May 1990
• Whitney Museum of American Art, August 1986–August 1988​

Education

• Williams College, MA, Art History
• College of Wooster, BA, Art History

Special Projects

• Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair, 2024–present
  
• Platemark podcast, 2021–present
  
• Baltimore Fine Art Print Fair, 2021–present
  
• The Curator's Choice podcast, 2021–present
• Blog: Musings on Art, Mostly Printmaking, 2020–present
• Baltimore Contemporary Print Fair, Baltimore Museum of Art, 2012, 2015, 2017

Exhibitions

• Experimental Ground: Modernist Printmaking in Paris and New York at Atelier 17, traveling exhibition with American Federation of the Arts, 2027
• Stanley William Hayter and Atelier 17, (unrealized), 2017
• Peter Milton: Etching Enigmas (Evergreen Museum and Library, Johns Hopkins University), March 20–October 9, 2016​

• Front Room: Broomberg & Chanarin, April 13–September 11, 2016
• On Paper: Spin, Crinkle, Pluck, April 19–September 20, 2015
• On Paper: Alternate Realities, September 21, 2014–April 12, 2015
• On Paper: Figure Drawings From The Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection, April 20–September 14, 2014
• Front Room: An-My Lê, October 9, 2013–February 23, 2014
• On Paper: The Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection, November 17, 2012–February 10, 2013
• Baker Artist Awards 2012, September 5–October 7, 2012
• Baker Artist Awards 2011, September 7–October 2, 2011
• On the Mark: Contemporary Works on Paper, July 3–September 12, 2010
• Taking in the View: English Watercolors and Prints, August 27–December 7, 2008
• Front Room: Jim Dine, June 11–October 5, 2008
• Reflections of Sea and Light: Paintings and Watercolors by J.M.W. Turner from Tate (with Jay Fisher, Chief Curator), February 17–May 26, 2002

Acquisitions (purchases and selected gifts)

• Ellen Countey Abbey, Mnemosyne, 1947 (BMA 2017.6–7)
  
• John White Abbott, A Path Through the Woods, c. 1785-1795 (BMA 2008.9)
• Tauba Auerbach, Plate Distortion II, 2011 (BMA 2012.198)
  
• George Ball, Passage, c. 1960 (BMA 2013.38)
  
• George Ball, Paysage, c. 1960 (BMA 2013.39)
  
• Ballengee
  
• Abel Barroso, Cigars with Ideology, 2001 (BMA 2009.132)
• Fred Becker, Encounter, 1956 (BMA 2017.4)
• Louisiana Bendolph, As I Leave Shall I Return, 2013 (BMA 2015.97)
  
• Robert Blackburn, three prints (2014.38, 2014.39, 2014.90)
  
• Sascha Braunig, Stays, 2016 (BMA 2017.69)
• Marco Breuer, Shot (C-917), 2009 (BMA 2009.125)
  
• Gerald Leslie Brockhurst, Henry Rushbury (No. 2), 1930 (BMA 2011.116)
  
• Broomberg & Chanarin, The Day of One Hundred Dead, June 8, 2008, 2008 (BMA 2016.147)
• Trisha Brown, Untitled Set One, 2006 (BMA 2007.336–338)
• John Buckland-Wright, Young Woman before Mirror, 1936 (BMA 2012.232–233)
• Ambreen Butt, Daughter of the East, 2008 (BMA 2017.68.1–5)
• Letterio Calapai, Earthquake, 1958 (BMA 2014.13a–b)
  
• Enrique Chagoya, Untitled (The Near Distant Jungle), 2014 (BMA 2015.159)
  
• Minna Citron, Trepth, 1947 (BMA 2014.12)
• Amy Cutler, Widow’s Peak, 2011 (BMA 2014.30)
• Dorothy Dehner, The Barn in Bolton, 1952 (BMA 2011.47)
• Victor Delhez, Scherzo in Gold, 1948 (BMA 2011.156)
• Jim Dine, A Side View in Florida, 1986 (2007.223)
• Jim Dine, Raven on Lebanese Border, 2000 (BMA 2007.224)
• Louis Draper, Man with Hat and Kool Advertisement, New York, c. 1956 (BMA 2016.72)
• Kerr Eby, No Man’s Land, St, Mihiel Drive, 1919 (BMA 2012.550)
  
• Nicole Eisenman, Sloppy Barroom Kiss, 2011 (BMA 2013.100)
  
• Chitra Ganesh, Away from the Watcher, 2014 (BMA 2014.29)
• Thomas Girtin, Views of Paris, 1802 (BMA 2012.230.1–17)
• Ann Hamilton, warp & weft I, 2007-2008 (BMA 2009.128)
• Ann Hamilton, RIGHTS, 2017 (BMA 2017.66)
• Trenton Doyle Hancock, Wow That’s Mean, 2008 (BMA 2012.199.1–4)
  
• Trenton Doyle Hancock, YU, MICA, ME, 2012 (BMA 2012.256)
  
• Stanley William Hayter, Cascade, 1959 (BMA 2008.112)
  
• Stanley William Hayter, Cascade (plate), 1959 (BMA 2014.40)
  
• Stanley William Hayter, Paysages urbains, 1930 (BMA 2011.158-2011.163)
• Stanley William Hayter, Hydroides, 1963 (BMA 2012.240)
• Stanley William Hayter, Cinq personnages, 1946 (BMA 2014.14.1–4)
• Stanley William Hayter, Augy’s Foot, 1940 (BMA 2017.5)
  
• Josef Hecht, Mont Saint-Michel, 1938 (BMA 2013.40)
  
• Robert Hills, Nook End, Ambleside, c. 1807 (BMA 2006.93)
  
• Ian Hugo, various prints and plates, 1940s (BMA 2013.53 etc)
  
• Horst Janssen, Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe, 1988 (BMA 2011.70)
• Stanley William Hayter, Submerged Form, 1941 (BMA 2012.241)
  
• Horst Janssen, Edgar Allan Poe, 1988 (BMA 2011.70)
  
• Jasper Johns, Fragment--According to What, Coat Hangar and Spoon, 1971 (BMA 2013.326)
• Idris Khan, Every…Bernd and Hilla Becher Gable Sided Houses, 2008 (BMA 2014.28)
• Franz Kline, Poem, 1950 (BMA 2014.15)
  
• Misch Kohn, Laocoön, 1968-69 (BMA 2013.41)
  
• Armin Landeck, Subway Station, 14th Street, 1951 (BMA 2015.1)
• Mauricio Lasansky, Doma, 1944 (BMA 2011.157)
• An-My Lê, Target Practice, USS Peleliu, 2005 (BMA 2014.5)
• Martin Lewis, Which Way?, 1932 (BMA 2011.155)
  
• Tom Lewis, The Trial and Prison, 1969 (BMA 2014.10)
  
• Evan Lindquist, S.W. Hayter Engraves War, 2015 (BMA 2015.173)
• Liu Zheng, Two Miners, Datong, Shanxi Province, 1996 (BMA 2009.126)
• Juan Logan, Ghost, 2009 (BMA 2010.11.1–6)
• Robert Longo, Men in the Cities (Joanna and Larry), 1983 (BMA 2013.102.1–2)
• Los Carpinteros, Greenhouse, 2011 (BMA 2011.91)
• Whitfield Lovell, Deuce, 2011 (BMA 2011.154)
  
• Emil Lukas, Center Hum East, 2011 (BMA 2012.200)
• Ben Marcin, Baltimore, MD, 2011 (BMA 2014.4)
  
• Christian Marclay, Automatic Drawing, 2008 (BMA 2009.127)
  
• Kerry James Marshall, Handsome Young Man, 2010 (BMA 2012.201)
• Jacob More, A View of the Cascade of Neptune’s Grotto at Tivoli, 1778 (BMA 2012.234)
• Vik Muniz, Jorge, 2003 (BMA 2009.129)
• Wangechi Mutu, Second Born, 2013 (BMA 2014.8)
  
• Christine Neill, Balance of Consequence, 2007 (BMA 2013.103)
  
• Barbara Neustadt, Knight of Death, 1953 (BMA 2009.19)
  
• Julie Niskanen, Sanctuary (Stage Two), 2008 (BMA 2001.40)
  
• BJO Nordfeldt, The Skyrocket, 1906 (BMA 2012.547)
  
• Gabor Peterdi, Black Bull portfolio, 1939 (BMA 2010.309)
  
• Helen Phillips, Poem, 1953 (BMA 2008.114)
  
• William Pope.L, Intimacy Project, 2011 (BMA 2012. 155)
  
• Andrew Raftery, Autobiography of a Garden, 2009-2016 (BMA 2017.67.1–12)
  
• Krishna Reddy, Demonstrators, 1968 (BMA 2013.42)
  
• Krishna Reddy, Water Form II, 1966 (BMA 2013.43)
  
• Alison Saar, Lost Boys, 2008 (BMA 2009.5)
  
• Paul Sandby, Chirk Castle &c. from Wynnstay Park, 1776 (BMA 2008.66)
  
• Stan Shellabarger, Untitled, 2011 (BMA 2012.190)
• Alyson Shotz, Three Views of an Object, 2010 (BMA 2011.92–94)
  
• James Siena, No Man’s Land, 2004 (BMA 2012.197)
  
• John Sloan, Portrait of Charles de Kock, 1904 (BMA 2007.334)
• John Sloan, Girl and Beggar, 1910 (BMA 2007.333)
• David Smith, Women in War, 1941 (BMA 2016.68)
  
• James Stroud, Burin Studies, 1980 (BMA 2014.140)
  
• Mickalene Thomas, Michelle O, 2008 (BMA 2010.10)
  
• Luc Tuymans, Surrender, 2014 (BMA 2015.46.1–3)
• Various Artists, 21 Etchings and Poems, 1960 (BMA 2015.75.1–20)
  
• Diane Victor, Smoke Screen 7 and 9, 2010 (BMA 2011.34 and. 35)
  
• Roger Vieillard, The Fable of Phaeton, 1939 (BMA 2012.231)
• Roger Vieillard, Descartes’ Meditations, 1946 (BMA 2012.173.1–30)
  
• William Villalongo, Through the Fire to the Limit, 2006 (BMA. 2014.34)
  
• Carrie Mae Weems, Untitled (Listening Devices), 2014 (BMA 2015.161)
  
• Pennerton West, On Such a Night, 1946 (BMA 2013.44)
  
• Rachel Perry Welty, S.O.O….GOOD!, 2008 (BMA 2009.178)
• Rachel Whiteread, Squashed, 2010 (BMA 2013.3)
• John Wilson, Martin Luther King, Jr., 2002 (BMA 2015.96)

Authored Publications

• Musings on Art, Mostly Printmaking. A blog featuring short posts sharing my thoughts on objects I acquired for the Baltimore Museum of Art's collection (and ones that got away), research I've done on Stanley William Hayter and Atelier 17, experiments in intaglio printmaking, and the Baltimore Contemporary Print Fair. Annshafer.com/annshaferblog.
  
• “On and In Paper: An Exhibition of Artist-Made Paper Objects Delights at UMGC.” On Paper: Journal of the Washington Print Club, 1 (no 15), spring 2024, pp. 3–5.
  
• “What makes a work of art great?” Los Angeles Printmaking Society blog, 2022.
  
• Art That Tells Stories: Artists from Catalyst Contemporary. Baltimore, MD: Catalyst Contemporary Gallery, 2021.
• “Atelier 17 and Its Founder, Stanley William Hayter,” In Atelier 17 e a gravura moderna nas Américas, São Paolo: Museum of Contemporary Art, University of São Paolo, 2019, pp. 72–97.
  
• Stanley William Hayter and Atelier 17, unpublished exhibition catalogue, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2017.
• Peter Milton: Etching Enigmas (with Trudi Ludwig Johnson), Evergreen Museum and Library, Johns Hopkins University, 2016.
• Permanent collection blog posts celebrating the BMA’s 100th Anniversary: Albrecht Dürer’s Knight, Death, and the Devil, 1513; John White Abbot’s A Path Through the Woods, c. 1785–95; Stan Shellabarger’s Untitled book, 2011.
• Exhibition brochures for Front Room: Broomberg & Chanarin, 2016, Front Room: An-My-Lê, 2013, and Front Room: Jim Dine, 2008, The Baltimore Museum of Art.
• “Hayter: Content and Technique,” Art in Print, 2 (September – October 2012), 10-16.
• “Aline Feldman: The Dynamics of City and Countryside - The Synthesis of Reality and Imagination,” exhibition brochure, The Rouse Company Foundation Gallery, Howard Community College, Columbia, MD, October 13–November 21, 2011.
• “West, Copley, and the Camera Obscura,” co-authored with Jenny Carson, American Art, 22 (Summer 2008), 24-41.
• Promises Revisited: Mervin Jules, Karl Metzler, and Frank Morgereth, exhibition brochure, University of Maryland University College, 2000.
• A Stately Heritage: Selections from the University of Maryland University Collection Maryland Artists Collection, exhibition catalogue entries, University of Maryland University College, 2000.
• The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, exhibition catalogue entries, National Gallery of Art, 1996.
• Drawings from the O’Neal Collection, exhibition catalogue entries, National Gallery of Art, 1993.

Juries and Portfolio Reviews

• Center for Contemporary Printmaking, 15th Biennial Miniature Print International Exhibition, juror,
  June 1–August 24, 2025.
  
• Washington Printmakers Gallery (Washington, D.C.), Peggy Doole National Small Works Exhibition, juror, August 1–25, 2024.
• Print Houston, NEXT 2024, juror, June 14–July 6, 2024.
  
• Maryland Institute College of Art, senior printmaking student critiquer, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2022.
  
• Society of American Graphic Artists, 87th Annual Exhibition, prize selection, 2022.
• Maryland Federation of Art, From Mountain to Marina, juror, August 6–27, 2022.
  
• Maryland Federation of Art, 40th Annual Art on Paper, juror, 2017.
• Fotofest Houston, portfolio reviewer, 2016.
• Maryland Federation of Art, MD Art @ College Park, juror, 2014.
• ​Gormley Gallery, Notre Dame of Maryland University, 25th National Drawing and Print Competitive Exhibition, juror, 2014.
• Maryland Institute College of Art, Vestige, Annual Printmaking Juried Exhibition, juror, 2012.
• Maryland Federation of Art, American Landscapes, juror, 2010.
• Washington Printmakers Gallery, National Small Works Exhibition, juror, 2008.

Memberships and Awards

• Robert H. Smith Fellowship, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC: research & travel fellowship investigating drawings made with optical aids, such as the camera obscura, the camera lucida, and graphic telescope; traveled to San Marino, CA, and London
• Board Member, Print Council of America: edited and performed design layout for 190+ page annual Newsletter 2014–2020
• Member, American Association of Museum Curators, 2006–2017
• Member, Association of Print Scholars, 2015–present
• Grants Committee, Association of Print Scholars, 2019–2021
  
• Board member and Secretary, The Atelier 17 Project, 2024–present