[2][3] Schaer explores feminine, social and spiritual issues using books and different materials.
[4] Her work has been exhibited and cataloged internationally at venues including at the Brooklyn Public Library,[5] the New Orleans Museum of Art,[6] and the Brooklyn Museum of Art,[7] In 2000, she had a Douglas Library Show at Rutgers University in New Brunswick NJ (the oldest continuously running exhibition showcasing women artists).
[9] She is the recipient of many prestigious awards including The Soros Arts and Culture Grant,[10] the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship,[11] and received a Fulbright to the Republic of Georgia (2017).
[12] Her work is included in public collections such as the Yale University Art Museum,[2] the Azerbaijan Museum, in Baku, Azerbaijan; the Tate Gallery, London, England,[3] the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis [13] and in Canada in the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa.
[16] From 2009 to 2016, she was a senior lecturer at Columbia College Chicago Interdisciplinary Arts, in the Interdisciplinary MFA Program in Book and Paper and in 2006-2010 and 2022, she taught the "Art of the Book" at the Pratt Institute as an assistant professor where she is on the faculty.