Peggy Blood PhD

Dr. Peggy Blood, artist and art teacher spent most of her professional career in northern California. In 1998 she moved to Savannah ,GA as Department Chair of Savannah State University Fine Art ‘s Program. She holds the title SSU Distinguished Professor 2004-2005.

Dr. Blood studied painting under the late John Howard of Arkansas, a protégé and colleague of Hale Woodruff. As a student of the segregated south, she is the first African American to receive a MFA degree in Art from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. In 1978 she was given the title Outstanding Bay Area Artist in Oakland, California.

Artist’s statement:
“My work is a vision of the southern Black experience reflected through vibrant bright hues and muted darks. Each painting tells a story by moving the viewer around and throughout various related shapes. My work integrates mix media; natural and tangible objects overlapped with rhythmic motion and streams of colors for an expressionistic type of genre painting.”