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Peggy Pettigrew Stewart
5830 E Cielo Run South
Cave Creek, AZ 85331
GlasshopperAz@aol.com
Biography
Desert Glasshopper Studio
Peggy was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area
(Pleasanton). In junior high school she began beading, making jewelry
and using looms. In high school she learned Lost Wax jewelry casting,
lapidary skills, metalsmith skills, and leather tooling. Her first gallery show
was at age 16. The show was held in Mission San Jose, at the Historic
Mission.
While still in high school, she found a love of photography and
cinematography. One memorable project was a film documentary about
an Alternative High School for At Risk teens. Peggy married and moved
with her husband moved to Colorado. There she worked in a commercial
cinematography lab. Her next endeavor was photographing motorcycle
races throughout Colorado, Kansas, Wyoming, South Dakota, and Texas.
After moving to Arizona, she worked as a free lance photographer for
Cycle News Magazine (a national publication)
A few years ago, she enrolled in a glass lampworking class
(hoping to make glass beads). Finding it frustrating, She has routinely said
that she couldn’t make a glass bead to save her life. Later she took a
glass fusing class, and fell madly in love with fusing. Local classes were
rare, so she sought out classes taught by the top glass artists and
instructors around the country..
Last summer Peggy studied at Pilchuck International Glass
School (the facility created by Dale Chihuly) in Washington. Also last
summer, she traveled to Barcelona Spain, and participated in an
intensive study program with Philippa Beveridge and Rene Culler.
She has studied with many of the top glass artists around the globe.
She has become one of the most “in demand” instructors in the
world of glass art. She conducts workshops at Desert GlassHopper Studio
in Carefree & Scottsdale. Currently her work is held in many private and
public collections around the world. Her glasswork has been published in
many national and international publications – and has graced the cover
of several of these. Her work is exhibited in many top galleries in the
United States. Currently her gallery & workshop studio is located in the
beautiful Carefree Resort & Villas in Carefree Arizona.
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Biography
Keith Dagley
888 E. 2850 N
Odgen, UT
Http://keithdagley.tripod.com
Keith A. Dagley received a Bachelor of Arts Degree at Utah State
University and taught art for 33 years. He currently produces art work full
time. Most recently, Keith was featured at the 2005 & 2006 Celebration
of Fine Arts in Scottsdale, George Phippen Museum’s 31st Annual
Western Art Show, Prescott, Logan (Utah) Summerfest 2005, Annual
Invitational Traces of the West Show, Utah 2005, Invitational Festival of
the American West, Utah 2005, and Odgen (Utah) Arts Festival 2005.
Keith was presented Best of Show at Roy Utah Heritage
Foundation Show 2005;
A versatile artist working primarily in oil, Keith uses both brush
and knife techniques. He also works in pastel graphite and prisma pencil,
and is often inspired by his own experiences. A love of family, horses and
ranch life, wildlife, Native Americans and their culture, both past and
present, provides a wide range in the body of his work.
“Recording life, whether wild, domestic, present or historical,
through my artwork fulfills a great need that I have. Capturing the
personality of each animal, person, or event and sharing these
experiences is the principle behind my painting,” says Keith Dagley.