Monday, March 4, 2024

Woodturning by Peggy E. Schmid Opens In Display Gallery

The March/April 2024 Display Gallery exhibit has opened – Woodturning by Peggy E. Schmid.  Ms. Schmid’s exhibit is on display through April 30. The Display Gallery is located on the 2nd floor of the Smyrna Public Library.

Display Gallery exhibits are organized by the Friends of Smyrna Library.

Artist Statement:

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the Atlanta College of Art in 1990 (now the Savannah College of Art and Design).

Studied to become an Art Educator at Georgia State University where she was an Honors student.

As a sculptor, she produced work for the movie "Freejack", with Mick Jagger and Emilio Estevez, created the Pinwheel Project at Tula Art Foundation in Buckhead, a featured artist on the program "Artage" for the City of Atlanta, and had works featured at ABC No Rio in New York and drawings in the Gorilla Girl Movement in Chicago.

Several of her bowls were featured in the HGTV Green Home in 2012. Demonstrated at several Woodturning Symposiums: Southern States Woodturning in Cartersville, Georgia, Turning Southern Style, Dalton, Georgia, The Florida Woodturning Symposium, and 2016 AAW Symposium in Atlanta. Ms. Schmid has been an instructor on several occasions at Arrowmont in Gatlinburg and is a frequent instructor at The Florida School of Woodwork.

She conducts woodturning retreats for women to help advance their skill levels and create a sense of community among women makers. She also is a demonstrator at many of the woodturning clubs in the Southeast.

Ms. Schmid has served as the President of the Georgia Association of Woodturners in Atlanta and was the Secretary Treasurer of Apple Ridge Woodturners in Ellijay Georgia. She is currently a member of the Etowah River Woodturners in Canton Georgia.

She has won awards both as an artist, sculptor, and woodturner and her works are in private and corporate collections throughout the country.

Artist Website   

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