Margaret is an artist, writer and costume painter.

 

An avid believer that art making can be for everyone, Margaret has presented art workshops with cancer survivors, elders, children, parent and teen groups, writers, nurses and caregivers, at The Creative Center at University Settlement's Creative Aging conferences and their Artist-in-Residence Training program, with EngAGE Utah, at Gilda's Club, The Huntsman Cancer Institute, Operation Exodus in NYC and at Miami University at Scripps and Opening Minds Through Art.

 

Margaret has painted costumes at Parsons-Meares, LTD for more than 20 years. Projects include Broadway, dance, film, as well as for circuses, arena shows and ice shows. She taught costume painting for 10 years at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and taught costume painting and presented lectures on making a living as an artist at UNC, BYU, The Self Employment in the Arts 2013 conference in Chicago, at FIT, Miami University and USITT-SE in Athens, GA. Margaret is a member of USA 829.

 

Margaret graduated from Miami University, with an emphasis in painting and fiber arts. 

Margaret Peot

• Website: www.margaretpeot.com