Education

  • B.A. in Studio Arts, Painting and Weaving, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR, 1980.

  • Experince-Trained Costume and Textile Designer

  • Intro to Graphic Design, De Anza College, San Jose, CA, 1993

  • John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Seminar, Portland, OR, 2009

Continuing Education

  • Video Editing for Teaching Artists workshop, Mr. David’s School of Film, 2021

  • Young Audiences Continuing Education Workshops 1995 - present

    • Presentation skills, coaching, teaching, visual art techniques

    • Right Brain Strategies and Social Emotional Learning

    • Foundations of Trauma Informed Practice

    • Trauma Informed Practice: The Arts Classroom

    • Creativity: Empowering our Communities

    • Trauma-Informed Care 201

    • Foundations of Trauma-Informed Care for Teaching Artists

    • Cultivating Queer & Trans-Inclusive Spaces for Youth

Teaching Experience

  • Florence Regional Arts Alliance --Teaching Artist, Florence, OR 2023 - present

  • Oregon Coast School of Art —Teaching Artist, Gardiner, OR 2022 - present

  • Young Audiences of Oregon -- Teaching Artist, OR & SW Washington, 1997 – present

  • The Right Brain Initiative -- Teaching Artist, Portland, OR, 2008 – present

  • Private Workshops: Youth and Adult Weaving and Spinning, 1990 – present

  • Portland Bureau of Transportation Sunday Parkways, Weaving Teacher, Portland, OR, 2020

  • Portland Community College, Community Education, Portland & Beaverton, OR, 2009 – 2017

  • Springwater Environmental Sciences School, OR City, OR, 2013 – 2016

  • Arts for Learning, Everyday Heroes, Beaverton, OR 2011 – 2017

  • Arts in Education (AIE) Program, Portland area, 1996 - 2002

  • Arts for Learning Consortium Cohort, Portland State University Ed. Dept., Portland, OR, 2003

  • Oregon Historical Society Family Farm and Rural Life program, Featured Folk Artist, Bybee House, Suavies Island, OR, 2002 & 2003

  • Providence Medical Healing Tapestry Projects: St. Paul Schools, Newberg, OR, 2006; & Youngson Elementary, Portland, OR, 2002

  • ArtsPlan 2000

    • School Incentive Grant, Banks Elementary staff training, Banks, OR, 2001

    • Artist in residency, Llewellyn School, Portland, OR, 1997

    • Artist in residency, Mckay School, Beaverton, OR, 1996

“Artist Peggy Ross is a multi-talented, enthusiastic and dedicated artist. . . and then, she generously shares her talents with kids of many ages; teaching things like how to make a small tapestry loom and then weave on it - to learning the color wheel and how to use it in any medium.” Donna Cooper, Portland, Oregon

Select Galleries

  • Changes – The Real Mother Goose, Portland, OR, 2005 -2007

  • Japanese Garden Society Gift Shop, Portland, OR, 1996 – 2005

  • Handworks, Sherwood, OR, 1994 – 2000

  • Bush Barn Art Center, Salem, OR, 1998 – 2000

  • Carnegie Center, Oregon City, OR, 1996 – 2000

  • Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland, OR, 1997 – 1999

  • Hoffman Gallery, Oregon School Of Arts And Crafts, Portland, OR, 1995

  • Bibelot Gallery, Portland, OR, 1992 –1995

Select Exhibitions and Sales

  • Artists’ Greenhouse Sale, West Linn, OR, 2008 – present

  • Local 14 (Northwest Artistst Show and Sale), Portland, OR, 1995 – 2018.

  • Art in the Burbs, Tigard, OR, 2005, 2006 & 2008

  • Geijutsu-sai, Japanese Garden juried art show and sale, Portland, OR, 1992 – 2006.

  • Celebration of Creativity, Southminster Presbyterian Church, Portland, OR, 1997, 2000, 2005, 2006

  • Portland Handweavers Guild annual sale, Portland, OR, 1990 – 2000

  • Art in the Pearl, Portland, OR, 1998 &1999

  • Bellevue Art Museum Arts Fair, Bellevue, Washington, 1999

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