Robert Shreefter is an artist, artist-educator, curator and former gallery director, who was a Founding Member and curator of the Off Main Gallery in Wellfleet, MA. This was a community-oriented gallery created to promote local artists from the Outer-Cape community and beyond.

For many years he was a professor at Lesley University, in Cambridge, MA.  He was a faculty in the Graduate School of Education, where he co-directed the Graduate Art Education Program He served as the director and curator of the Marran Gallery and the Atrium Gallery at Lesley University, exhibiting the work of students, faculty and community artists. 

Shreefter has taught and directed workplace/adult literacy programs, served as an artist–in-residence in schools, community organizations, literacy councils and libraries working with a variety of diverse populations including pregnant teenagers, homeless people, migrant Hispanic youth, special education students and incarcerated youth. He has also taught undergraduates and graduates at the Art Institute of Boston, studio and art education courses at the Massachusetts College of Art and the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Art New England. He worked with students and teachers in arts integration and literacy enhancement in Boston Public School’s Charles Sumner School in Roslindale and the Marshall School in Dorchester as part of five-year National Endowment of the Arts grant. 

Shreefter is an active studio artist, concentrating on printmaking. His prints and handmade books have been shown in galleries including the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill; Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC; The Plum Gallery, Williamstown, MA; Lesley University galleries; Castle Hill Center of the Arts, Truro, MA; and Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA; Farm gallery, Wellfleet, MA.