Chafetz received his professional training at the Rhode Island School of Design, L'Ecole des Beaux Arts, Fontainebleau, the Academe Julian, Paris, under artists, Fernand Leger and Stanley W. Hayter. A comprehensive 40-year retrospective of prints, Chafetz Graphics: Satire and Homage, was presented in the Hoyt Sherman Gallery of Ohio State's Wexner Center for the Arts during the fall, 1988. The entire collection of Mr. Chafetz’s work is housed in the Columbus Museum of Art. An exhibition of works from 1946 to 2005 was shown at the museum in the fall of 2005.