She holds a BFA in painting and art education from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and a MFA in painting from the University of Pennsylvania. She holds awards from U. Penn. for painting and color. Maynard-Sahar is an associate of the Bowery Gallery in New York City where she has had several solo exhibitions over the past twenty years. Her work is recognized by curators nationally and internationally, most notably by Marilyn Symmes, Curator of Prints and Drawings at Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum; David Kiehl, Curator of Prints at the Whitney Museum of American Art; Susan Cross, Assistant Curator of the Guggenheim Museum, and by Judith Hecker, Department of Prints and Illustrated Books, Museum of Modern Art.