As an illustrator and printmaker since 1976, Frances Jetter’s linocut prints, often with political and social subject matter, have illustrated articles in the New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME Magazine, The Nation, The Village Voice and The Progressive, ads for Audubon, and book jackets for Knopf, Macmillan and others.

“Amalgam, an Immigrant, His Labor Union, and His American Family in Brooklyn”
(a Graphic History) published by Fantagraphics Books — available October 8th, 2024

In 2019, The Norman Rockwell Museum, in Stockbridge, MA showed more than 65 prints from Amalgam, in "Finding Home: Four Artist's Journeys." In 2023, it was exhibited at the Canton Museum of Art in Canton, Ohio, and will be travelling to other venues.

Jetter’s prints are included in the collections of the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard, the Detroit Institute of Arts, The New York Public Library, and Grinnell College Print and Drawing Study Room. In 2016, The Library of Congress acquired 24 of her relief prints for “The Frances Jetter Illustration Collection."

Her artist’ books are included in the Library of Congress’ Rare Books and Special Collections, The New York Public Library's Spencer Collection, and in library special collections at Stanford, UCLA, Smith and other colleges and universities.

Jetter has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and grants from the Puffin Foundation.

A fellowship at the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers in 2017-2018 allowed her to research and complete much of Amalgam,

Since 1979, Frances Jetter has taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

She has an BFA from Parsons School of Design.