Betsy Schneider

Schneider is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the School of Art. She holds a BA from the University of Michigan, a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and an MFA from Mills College in Oakland, California. From 2002 to 2016, she was a professor in the School of Art at Arizona State University. In 2016, she relocated to the Boston Area for family reasons. Since then, working remotely, she designed, directed, and developed one of the first online BFA programs in photography in the country for ASU. She has continued to be a part-time employee at ASU as well as teaching in person at several institutions in Massachusetts, including MassArt, Harvard, Hampshire and Emerson College.  She is a founder of FotoFika, a workshop with guests that began during the early days of the Covid Pandemic.

Schneider’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is part of many notable collections. In 2011, she was named a Guggenheim Fellow. She spent the following year photographing and creating videos of two hundred and fifty thirteen-year-olds, resulting in a solo exhibition that included a feature length film. This work, entitled To Be Thirteen, was published as a book by Radius in 2017. She is a 2021 recipient of a Global Sport Institute Seed Grant.