Jan Shoger, is an artist and educator. She is Professor Emeritus of Department of Art and Art History, St. Olaf College, where she taught drawing and all media in printmaking: woodcut, lithography, intaglio and mono-printing for 22 years. 

In 1968-69 she studied Japanese woodcut with Sho Kidokoro in Tokyo, Japan. 

Jan Shoger was St. Olaf faculty Field Supervisor for 17 students in the Term in Asia Program, teaching and taking courses with students in Japan, Taiwan, China and Thailand for five months. 

With a Faculty Development Grant in 1989, Jan worked at Landmark Editions with Master Printers Bernie Ficek and John Swenson. In 1990-91 she studied lithography with Gerald Krepps, University of Minnesota. In 1991 Jan received a grant to work at Tamarind Institute of Lithography, Albuquerque, NM. 

In 1998, during sabbatical, she was Artist in Residence with Japanese woodblock artist Akira Kurasaki at Kyoto Seika University in Kyoto, Japan funded by an ACM Study Grant.

She exhibited and worked as a Co-op member of Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN. from 2003 - 2014.

Northfield Arts and Culture Commission named Jan Shoger as the recipient of the Living Treasure Award in 2016. 

Jan Shoger has exhibited extensively, including Steensland Gallery and Flaten Museum, St. Olaf College; Bloomington Art Center, Bloomington MN; Lutheran Brotherhood, Minneapolis; Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN; Minneapolis Foundation, Minneapolis; St. Mary’s University, Winona, MN; Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis; Phipps Center for the Arts, Hudson, WI; WARM Gallery, Minneapolis; Goldstein Museum, University of Minnesota; Mankato State University Gallery, Mankato, MN; LePoudre Gallery, St. Paul, MN; Hamline University Soeffker Gallery, St. Paul, MN; International Design Center, Minneapolis, MN; Northfield Arts Guild Gallery, Northfield, MN; Shattuck School, Faribault, MN; Augsburg University Galleries, Minneapolis, MN; Minnesota State Fair Juried Fine Arts Exhibition,St. Paul, MN; and Minnetonka Center for the Arts, Minnetonka, MN. 

Her work is in collections at Target Corporation, Perlman Teaching Museum, Carleton College, Steensland Art Gallery and Flaten Art Museum, St. Olaf College, Kyoto Seika University in Kyoto, Japan, Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN, Northfield Hospital, Northfield Public Library and numerous private collections.

Jan received her B.A. in studio art and art education from the University of Minnesota. She taught K-12 in Minneapolis Public Schools and Northfield Public Schools before returning to University of MN for her MA degree.