Education
Rhode Island School of Design.
Rhode Island School of Design.
She was an early artist in the American Studio Glass Movement. She has work in the collections of the Corning Glass Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Shaffer was born in 1947 in Walterboro, South Carolina.
She grew up in South America. She studied illustration and painting, earning her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Shaffer has taught at RISD, Wellesley College, and New York University as the Director of the Crafts Program in the 1970s and 1980s.
She also managed the Art Center at the University of Maryland.