Violet Jaffe

Violet A. Jaffe is the director of the Ryerson and Burnham Libraries, though she is no stranger to the Art Institute as she was a student at SAIC in the 90s and an intern in the archives in 2012. She has been in public libraries in various roles since 2008 but also worked as a picture framer, cake decorator, and briefly as a member of the meat-cutters union. Violet lives in Arlington Heights with her husband and their adult son. She loves to draw, paint, and sculpt.