Gary Kilgore

I apprenticed to Belgian portrait sculptress, Jeanne Gevaert in Atlanta, after school during my junior and senior years of high school (1970-1972). Recently, I was contacted by the Smithsonian Institution, looking for biographical information about Jeanne. They own a bronze sculpture that she created that will be included in an exhibit featuring female sculptors. The summer of 1972 as high school wrapped up, I began an apprenticeship to goldsmith/avant garde artist, Peggy Ackerly (in Atlanta)(Peggy was a protege of Sam Kramer, Greenwich Village, NY, NY, who she worked under from 1943 - 1964, until his death). I apprenticed to Peggy for a year, and opened a studio in an old duplex she bought on 9th Street (in Atlanta). I moved to Coconut Grove in August of 1973, and enrolled in the school of architecture at the University of Miami. At the University of Miami I studied architecture under Andres Duany, who is the father of the New Urbanism Movement in architecture, and Philadelphia architect, Philip Steel. In Coconut Grove, and later back in Atlanta, I continued to make jewelry throughout my college years. The financial crisis in the 1970's crushed my family, so I did not complete my studies in architecture, but returned to Atlanta an...

apprentice to Jeanne Gevaert (1970-1972);
apprentice to Peggy Ackerly (1972-1973);
University of Miami, Architecture (1973-1975);
Georgia State University, BBA (1975-1978)