Bio/CV

PEGGY SCHUTZE SHEARN

b. 1953
1971-1974 Attended Michigan State University and the University of Michigan. Studied layout and design, production, typography at Laney College, Oakland, CA, while working in an alternative publishing collective
1977-1979 Worked as a typesetter at a commercial art and photography studio in Chicago, studied calligraphy and brush lettering through the Chicago Calligraphy Collective and Newberry Library
1979-1992 Freelance copy writing, graphic design & production work, package design, hand lettering, English and Hebrew calligraphy and illustration
1992-1994 Attended Columbia College Chicago to study drawing, design, desktop publishing and computer graphics
1995 – present Studied (darkroom) photography with Arthur Lazar at Lake Forest College and subsequently participated in his critique groups. I have worked at the Evanston Art Center’s printmaking studio making intaglio prints and lithographs while I continued to paint and draw.
Since 2013 Founding member of AIR Galley + Studio and since 2020, Chairperson of the Board
SELECTED EXHIBITS
Dream a Little Dream with Me, solo show, AIR Gallery, Glencoe, IL 2024
Beyond the Surface, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL 2020
Peggy Shearn: Out of Her Mind, solo show, AIR Gallery, Glencoe, IL 2019
Impromtu, ARC Gallery, Chicago, 2019
A Conservation Conversation, David Adler Music and Arts Center, Libertyville, IL 2019
Art Makers North, Evanston Art Center,j Evanston, IL 2019
Art Makers North, Chimera Loft, Evanston, IL 2018
Art Makers North, Dandelion Gallery, Waukegan, IL 2018
Sketchbook Show, 33 Contemporary Gallery, Chicago, IL 2017
Nasty Women, Evanston, IL 2017
Lexicon, ZhouB Art Center, Chicago, IL 2016
Art + Vision, Spex, Winnetka, IL 2015
38th Annual Beverly Art Competition and Exhibit, Beverly Art Center, Chicago, IL 2014
Evanston Biennial, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 2014
I Can Do That, Variable Space, Chicago, IL 2012
Exquisite Corpse, Fulton Street Collective, Chicago, IL, 2011
We Remember Them, BooCoo Cultural Center, Evanston, IL, 2011
Works on Paper, Gallery G, Glencoe, IL 2011
Art is Alive in Highland Park, The Art Center, Highland Park, IL 2011 “Best of Show” award
Members Only, Gallery G, Glencoe, IL 2010
Visiting Artist, Woodlands Academy, Lake Forest, IL, 2009
Image and Word, The Art Center, Highland Park, IL 2009
Hand Made Prints, Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL, 2009
One-Horse Press Group Show, Morpho Gallery, Chicago, IL 2008
Ten Days in May, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 2007
One of a Kind: Prints Like No Other, Spudnik Press, Chicago 2007
Peace Tower, part of Mark di Suvero: Works and Protest, Chicago 2007
The Man Show, Mars Gallery, Chicago 2007
Fully Caffeinated, Pick-A-Cup Coffee House, Evanston, IL 2007
Under the Influence, Line Drive Gallery, Evanston, IL, 2005
Chicago Art Open, Chicago, IL 2003, 2004, 2005
..for you were a stranger...., Hot House gallery space, Chicago, IL, curated by Rick Tuttle, 2004
Peggy Shearn, Subterranean Subversive (solo show), Aaron Freeman Gallery, Highland Park, IL 2003
Verses, Volumes, Vision: Art and the Written Word, Juried Show of the Northbrook Arts Commission;
Northbrook Public Library, Northbrook, IL, 2003
Multiple Visions, Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL, 2003
Ox Bow Benefits, Chicago 2000-2002
My work has been published in EAST ON CENTRAL, A Journal of Arts and Letters, and was featured on the cover in 2007