Peggy Thurston Farrell

Peggy Thurston Farrell is an Emerita Professor of Art at Carroll University where she taught printmaking, design and was gallery director. Farrell received her MFA in Printmaking from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1976 and her B.A. in Art Education in 1972 from Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin. 

Farrell’s work has been widely collected and exhibited and shown in both solo and group exhibitions across the United States, Japan and regionally, including the Milwaukee Art Museum, the University of Tennessee’s Fine Arts Gallery, Tory Folliard Gallery, the Philadelphia Print Club, the Wisconsin Visual Artists Biennial Exhibition at the Anderson Art Center in Kenosha and the Southern Graphics International Traveling Print Exhibition. 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 the spring of 2012, she was awarded one of the Waukesha Guitartown commissions to paint a small guitar in honor of musician and inventor Les Paul. Her current works are colorful and thought provoking collages and mixed media silkscreen prints. Much of her work explores the concepts of containment, the relationship of ancient and contemporary symbols and virtual vs. spiritual realities.  Most recently, her work has become more political as she addresses issues of government corruption, pollution and memory.