Peggy Thurston-Farrell
Biographical Info Peggy Thurston Farrell is an Emerita Professor of Art at Carroll University where she taught printmaking, design and was gallery director and curator of the Wisconsin Collection. Farrell received her M.F.A. in Printmaking from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and did her undergraduate work at Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Her work has been widely exhibited and collected. Over the years her work has evolved from the two-dimensional print medium to collaged, painted and silkscreened three-dimensional paper and wood constructions. Farrell’s work has been shown in both solo and group exhibitions across the United States, Japan, Italy and regionally, including the Milwaukee Art Museum, the University of Tennessee’s Fine Arts Gallery, Tory Folliard Gallery and the Philadelphia Print Club. Most recently, her work was featured in the Southern Graphics International Traveling Print Exhibition and Watercolor Wisconsin at the Wustum Museum of Art in Racine. In 2001 she was awarded the Professional Dimensions Sacajawea commission and in 2008 won the Waukesha Public Library commission to create a five-part relief piece titled Evolution of Expression that can be viewed in the new book area of the library. In May of 2022, Farrell retired from Carroll University and celebrated with a solo Sabbatical Exhibition titled Foxconn Con in the Bliss Gallery at Carroll University. The work in the exhibition featured thought provoking, layered collages and mixed media silkscreen prints that addressed the issues of government corruption, pollution and climate change.
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