Peggy Banks

My name is Peggy Banks and i am a working professional mixed media artist. I have been, showing and creating my art for over 35 years. It has changed and evolved over time but the constant medium is handmade paper. One body of work is called Outside the Box .I fuse handmade paper with hand dyed silk and mount it on copper which i patina. I also have another body of work that is housed under plexi glass. This is called my Euro series. Both bodies of art are non objective or abstract and are influenced by nature, music and spirituality. I have exhibited my work in many museums, galleries and in art festivals around the country winning numerous awards over the years. I have also been included in several Art in Public Places Collections. My work has been collected by the Daytona International Airport , The Court House in Deland Florida, Bert Fish Medical Center, New Smyrna Beach Florida, The New Smyrna Beach Library, Port orange City Library Port Orange Fl., Lincoln Center and The White House. I have shown in the American Craft Museum in Baltimore and Atlanta, Lincoln Center, Ann Arbor Michigan State Street Arts Festival, Disney Festival of the Masters, The Boca Museum Show, The Winter Park Sidewalk Arts festival, among others and...

I have a Fine Arts Degree from University of Florida. Additionally i have studied at North Adams State in Ma. Stetson University in Deland, and Arrowmount School of Art in Gatlinburg Tenn. I am also a former AP advanced Placement Art teacher and have taught privately and publically for the past 30 years. I am an NBPT certified art teacher but continue to create and show my art.

Florida Women's Museum 2013, 2012 Deland, Florida
City Hall, Solo Exhibition, Debary, Florida 2013
The Peabody Auditorium, Daytona Florida 2013 Group Exhibition,Daytona Art League, 2012, Daytona International Airport art in public places, The Deland Court House, Bert Fish Medical Center, New Smyrna Beach Library Art in Public Places, Art Haus 2015,Lincoln Center, Winter Park Sidewalk Arts Festival,. Disney Festival of the Arts, Gasperilla Arts Festival Tampa, Fl., State Street Arts Festival Ann Arbor Michigan, The Atlanta Arts Festival, Virginia Beach Boardwalk Arts Festival Show, Ormond Beach Museum of Art, Tampa Museum of Art, The Art Collector, Gainesville Florida, Florida Womens Museum of Art, Arts on Douglas, New Smyrna Beach. Florida, The String Theory Creations Gallery in Sanford Florida, Lincoln Center New York, American Craft Museum Baltimore and Atlanta are a few of many galleries, museums and street art festivals i have participated in over the past 35 years.. Currently I have a solo show at the Art Hub on Canal Street in New Smyrna Beach Florida, called The Art of Healing on view through March 27 2017.