Jeanet Steckler Dreskin graduated from Newcomb College in 1942 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. While at Newcomb, she studied with Will Henry Stevens and Xavier Gonzalez and took night classes on anatomy with John McCrady. She went on to graduate from Johns Hopkins University with a medical art certification in 1943. From 1943-1944, Jeanet was employed as a staff artist in the Vertebrate Anatomy Department of the American Museum of Natural History. From 1946-1950, she was staff artist at the University of Chicago Medical School and worked as a medical illustrator for the next several decades. From 1968-1975, she was the Director of the Museum School of Art at the Greenville County Museum. She became the first person to earn a Master of Fine Arts from the Department of Visual Studies at Clemson University. Her non-medical artwork focuses on topics of nature, ecology, and overpopulation.