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Peggy didn't start out as an artist; her formal training was as a special education teacher. In the late 60s to early 70s she was a member of the Peace Corps in Malaysia, serving as an advisor on math and science curriculum

Peggy didn't start out as an artist; her formal training was as a special education teacher. In the late 60s to early 70s she was a member of the Peace Corps in Malaysia, serving as an advisor on math and science curriculum

Peggy didn't start out as an artist; her formal training was as a special education teacher. In the late 60s to early 70s she was a member of the Peace Corps in Malaysia, serving as an advisor on math and science curriculum

Peggy Kaufman

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To enjoy one of Peggy Kaufman's mosaic sculptures is to see the artist herself--from an eclectic assortment of adventures and experiences, a multifaceted one-of-a-kind gem emerges.

Peggy didn't start out as an artist; her formal training was as a special education teacher. In the late 60s to early 70s she was a member of the Peace Corps in Malaysia, serving as an advisor on math and science curriculum. It was during a side trip to Indonesia that she decided to travel the artist's way. She was introduced to the ancient art of batik and she loved it! Upon returning stateside to her home in California, she threw herself into doing batik for a marketplace ripe for her creations.

As a self-proclaimed compulsive personality, Peggy "worked like a maniac", supporting herself for years doing batik. Once sated however, she moved to New York to try something new, alternating between working on her art full-time for six months and then working full-time at whatever job she could find, such as selling gourmet food, painting theatrical stage sets, and tutoring child actors. She even was a tutor for the Bill Cosby show. Her 6-month artistic spells were binges of intense productivity doing calligraphy, silversmithing, product illustration, weaving, and Peggy's favorite form of expression, oil painting. Her unrelenting perseverance towards finding a way to provide for herself as an artist became her proudest achievement.

Peggy's wholesale business, Digital Prism, began in 1993 with the introduction of her millefiori ornaments, and it is the success of this business that now supports her and enables her to employ 3 helpers. Using a medical blade designed to slice material for microscopes, tissue-thin wafers of polymer clay rosettes are applied to spheres which are then strung with ribbon. These beautiful kaleidoscopic creations, along with her handpainted recycled lightbulbs, have been sold in more than 200 shops nationwide, including the Museum Company and the American Craft Museum. For this upcoming holiday season she has created three exclusive designs for the Art Institute of Chicago gift catalog. Peggy markets her ornaments through advertisements in national trade publications and by exhibiting at two large East Coast wholesale shows: the Rosen Show and the Atlanta show. Next year she hopes to sell at the San Francisco Gift Show.

Then of course, there are her mosaics. Homely bedposts, discarded high-heeled shoes, and broken crockery are all fodder for her artistry, becoming bejeweled and beguiling accessories for the home and garden. A garden urn is encrusted with hundreds of fragments of dinner china, marbles, shells, and even the porcelain plug to an old sink! It is at once both elegant and bizarre. Because of their sculptural nature Peggy cannot mass-produce the mosaics as she does her ornaments; each is unique, and each a Peggy Kaufman original.





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By Chris Williams (166.170.5.116) on Monday, February 01, 2021 - 4:15 pm: Edit Post

So sorry to hear about Peggy having passed away in 2008.

By Chris williams (166.170.5.116) on Monday, February 01, 2021 - 7:39 pm: Edit Post

February 1, 2021
I knew Peggy & her boyfriend (also my friend, whose name, for the life of me, I can’t remember) while I was in Indonesia in 1971 and in Los Angeles in 1974. After she moved to Oregon, I tried to contact her several times, but never found her.
I’ve had 3 loves in my life:
One was an affair,
One was the woman I married,
& One was Peggy.
This was not a physical relationship with Peggy. She was a very great friend. She was always joyful, considerate, gangbusters, with a smile that could melt ice. You’d go out to eat someplace or just be with her for hours, and she’d charge you up. She was always doing stuff-thinking, doing, planning-a whirlwind of action!
So 2 days ago I was googling her name again, as I did at least once a year, and this Peace Corps site came up with her info on it. Boy, was I excited-finally I might get to talk with Peggy after 46 years! I was truly high. Then after searching some places mentioned in this article, I found out that she had passed away 12 years ago. Then I was truly low & in the pits.
I just wrote this to put my feelings down, and to include the 2 obituaries I found regarding Peggy, because they’re so true about her beautiful soul. If we in this world had 1/10th of the passion and love as Peggy had, how much better we'd all be. And anyone who met her or knew her knows this. Here’s a thought—if there’s someone in your life you loved in the past, do your best to contact them now—there may not be a later when you can do this. Also contact those in your life you know now, because there may not be a later for them as well.
There’s a hymn on my hymn book that, with an few words changed, seems to refer to Peggy’s soul. The hymn is #36, Is There No Light?, verse 4. It's words could go for Peggy.
A little while the Light of Life is with you;
O remember her, her joyfulness can lead you on;
Do not delay, lest darkness overwhelm you
And, turning late, you find that she is gone.
By the way, when she was doing her batik in Indonesia, she always signed her work as “Tails,“ as she had her hair in pigtails, and that’s how I knew her.
Chris Williams
818 219-8393
cwandassociates@hotmail.com


This is obit #1
https://alextimes.com/2008/10/farmers-market-loses -an-artisian/

This is obit #2





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KAUFMAN PEGGY CAROL KAUFMAN (Age 62) Noted artist and craftsperson of Arlington, VA and former resident of Nebraska, California, Malaysia, Arizona, Oregon and New York who died on Tuesday, September 9, 2008 of multiple myeloma. Sister of Jim Kaufman, Betty Zeigler, Shirlee Kimsey and Sharon Steadman. She is also survived by a host of dear relatives and friends throughout the nation and abroad. Peggy is the daughter of the late Albert and Ann Kaufman and sister of the late Albert and Gary Kaufman. Services are private. In lieu of flowers, Peggy would ask us to love and rescue the earth-a planet worth keeping or contribute to the International Myeloma Foundation, 12650 Riverside Dr., Ste 206, N. Hollywood, CA 91607. Arrangements by MURPHY FUNERAL HOME, Arlington, VA.


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September 16, 2008
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Suphattra Prachathananukit
September 16, 2008
To the Friends and Family of my best high school friend, I too feel sad. I heard about Peggy's health in May through step mother Emily in Oshkosh, Ne. I would love to see some of her art work, even the Christmas Balls she designed for Bloomingdales??? Peg had a way of bringing out the best and worst of me in highschool and together I think we made a mark. She obviously continued to be the unique person she was meant to be.
Kathy Beam - Moll
September 16, 2008
Wishing your family and close friends our Sincere Condolences. Peg was a very talented and special lady!

Jim & Gwen Jessen (1965 &1967)
Jim & Gwen Jessen
September 16, 2008
Peggy all the twelve years in this country and you were and still to this day still are my best friend. All that you taught me while growing up..DONT TALK TO ANY BOYS and the great times we had in the craft shows I will never forget. We all miss you a lot and I know that god has added a new angel to watch over us. I miss you and will never forget you.
Carolina Beltran
September 16, 2008
Our thoughts and prayers are with you all during this sad time. Did not know Peggy lived so close to us!
May happy memories carry you through this sorrowful time.
Love,
Gary and Mary Ann (Reichert) Margheim
Mary Ann (Reichert) Margheim
September 14, 2008
Susan Schumpert: Peggy, we love you and know you are still with us in spirit. I so enjoyed the 15 years of craft shows we did together, all the laughs we had, the fun, and your wonderful spirit. I will miss you tremendously.

Susan
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