Peggy Roalf
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DART: Design Arts Daily

Peggy Roalf is a Manhattan-based artist, writer, and producer. Her work is in several private collections and was recently been seen in the 2023 Center for Book Arts 50th Anniversary Members Exhibition; Experimental Printmaking 2924 at Covello Center for Older Adults; as a flag flying at Rockefeller Center’s 2022 One Earth program; in Together Apart, 2022 and Women Celebrate Women, 2021 both at El Barrio’s Artspace PS109; and the NY Artists Circle online exhibitions, Seeing Music (2023) and I Dreamed a Garden (2022).

Since 2006, Peggy has been Editor in Chief of the online arts journal, DART: Design Arts Daily, with a targeted circulation of over 20,000 subscribers in the arts. In 2023 taught in the New York Public Library Creative Aging Program at the Roosevelt Island Branch and Introduction to Watercolor at Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, funded by Sculptors Alliance, Inc. In 2022 she was funded by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council to teach “Tell Me Your Story”, portraits in pastel, at the Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, and “Self-Discovery through Self-Portraits”, in various mediums, at El Barrio’s Artspace PS109. She taught “Interaction of Watercolor” and “Present Yourself” on Zoom for Sculptors Alliance, Inc. during the Pandemic lockdown. She has taught at the undergraduate and postgraduate level at Fordham University, The Cooper Union, Parsons School of Design, and the International Center of Photography, among others. Peggy is on the Board of Sculptors Alliance, Inc., serving as Secretary; she is an ambassador member of Center for Book Arts; she is also a volunteer in Outreach for the Roosevelt Island Garden Club. She has studied studio art at The Cooper Union; The New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, The Art Students League and school of Visual Arts, and printmaking at Covello Center for Older Adults.

Exhibitions | Select
Student Salon, 2024, Art Students League of New York
50th Anniversary Members Exhibition, Center for Book Arts Gallery, 2023
Experimental Printmaking, Covello Center for Older Adults, 2023
Together/Apart, group exhibition organized by Carter Burden Network at El Barrio’s Artspace PS109, 2022
I Dreamed a Garden | online exhibition through August 2022. Organized by Lois Bender/New York Artists Circle, 2022
Only One Earth | Rockefeller Center Flag Project in collaboration with The Climate Museum, NYC,  2022
Group Exhibition, The Hub at New York School of the Arts. Organized by Kathryn Cameron, 2022
Women Celebrate Women 2021. El Barrio’s Artspace PS 109, NYC. Organized by Yvonne Lamar-Rogers in collaboration with Rolinda Ramos of El Barrio’s Artspace PS109
Sumer show, 11 Gallery, Kent CT, 2020; organized by Marco Palli
Abundance & Variety, commissioned mural, Roosevelt Island, NYC, 2019-2021 
City Views, group exhibition at Manhattan Borough President’s Office, NYC. Selected by Art Students League of New York outreach, 2017 

Honors | Professional Activities 
Member, Art Students League of New York
Member, New York Artists Circle
Secretary/Director and Teaching Artist, Sculptors Alliance
Carter Burden Network Artist in Residence, March-May, 2023
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council SU-CASA Grant, 2022
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Creative Learning Grant, 2022
Artist member, The Center for Book Arts, 2015-19
Letterpress Printing & Fine Press Publishing Seminar for Emerging Poets Award; The Center for Book Arts, 2016 
Member and outreach volunteer, Roosevelt Island Garden Club, NYC

Recent Teaching Programs
Discover Your Place in Nature: Drawing and Painting from Mannahatta, New York Public Library, East 58th Street Branch, 2024
Discover Your Place in Nature: Drawing and Painting from Mannahatta, New York Public Library, Roosevelt Island Branch, 2023
Introduction to Watercolor, El Barrio’s Artspace 109, 2024
Introduction to Watercolor, El Barrio’s Artspace 109, 2023
Introduction to Watercolor, Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, 2023
Show Me Your Story: SU-CASA LMCC Grant, Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, 2022
Self-Discovery through Symbolic Self Portraits, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Creative Learning Grant, El Barrio’s Artspace 109, 2022
The Interaction of Watercolor at Sculptors Alliance, Inc. online, 2021 
Present Yourself, an online professional development course at Sculptors Alliance, Inc., 2020-2021
The Pamphlet: A Document of Protest, Resistance and Democracy. Workshop for Foundation Year Integrative Seminar, The New School/Parsons School of Design, 2015-2022
Café Nietzsche Drawing Club, drawing from observation at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019-20
History of the Photography Book, Fordham University, Visual Arts Department, 2019
The Art of the Interview and Camera Obscura. Workshops for Foundation Year Integrative Seminar, The New School/Parsons School of Design, Dr. Anastasia Aukeman, 2020
Strategies for Photographers Applying for Grants and Awards. International Center of Photography, Documentary and Photojournalism Certificate Program. 2014-2016 

Author / Book Editor | Select
DART: Design Arts Daily, an online journal of the visual arts, 2009-present Info
“Flesh and Bone: Unique Photographs by Richard Learoyd.” Aperture Vol. 199, 2010
Colorama: The World’s Largest Photographs (Aperture 2004)
China: 50 Years Inside the Peoples Republic (Aperture 1999)
 From the Heart: A Collector’s Choice (Aperture 1998), Adam D. Weinberg, ed. Critical texts on 60 contemporary photographers 
“Exquisite Corpse,” Dark Days: Mystery, Murder, Mayhem (Aperture #149, 1997)
Strong Hearts: Native American Visions and Voices, (Aperture 1995) 
Russian Journal by Inge Morath, editor and book designer (Aperture 1994)
Looking at Paintings (Hyperion, 1992-1994), 12 books on art for young readers 

Independent Curator | Select
China: 50 Years Inside the Peoples Republic, 1999-2001. International touring exhibition, North America and Asia, in association with Asia Society, New York 
Strong Hearts: Native American Visions and Voices, 1997-2000. Smithsonian Institution/Ripley Center, Washington, DC, with three-year North American exhibition tour

Artist Books | Select 
Elements, 2023, Lorna Crane’sFlat-Lay binding
Enigma, 2016, Small Press/Fine Publishing Seminar Award, letterpress folio, The Center for Book Arts
Compost Origins, 2016, Cyanotypes/Series 1, unique prints
Park Scroll #1, 2017, unique accordion artist book
Atomic Diary: A Journal of the Cold War, 2016

Publications | Select
“Kodak’s Idealized Colorama Returns” by James Estrin. LensBlog, New York Times, August 3, 2012
“Kodak Coloramas and the Landmark that Almost Wasn’t” by Emma Brown. Interview, July 2012
“Colorama: The World’s Largest Photographs are Back,” by Claire O’Neill; NPR, July 2010
The Picture Show; Photo Stories from NPR. July 29, 2010
“Colorama” by Michael Beirut. Design Observer, November 1, 2004
“Colorama: Call of the Wide” by Bruce Handy. Vanity Fair, September, 2004
“Flickers of China,” by Kenneth Baker. San Francisco Chronicle, April 13, 2000
“Fifty Years Inside the Peoples Republic,” review by Grace Glueck. New York Times, October 8, 1999
“Native Americans, Looking Inward,” by Frank Van Riper, October 25, 1996. The Washington Post
“While You’re Saving for a Van Gogh” by John Russell, New York Times Sunday Book Review, November 1, 1992
Starred review for Looking at Paintings, Publishers Weekly, May 25, 1992 

Art Education | Select
Printmaking with Karin Bruckner at Covello Center for Older Adults, 2019—present
Watercolor Techniques with Frank Webster at Art Students League, 2024
Figure Atelier with Robert Armetta, New York Academy of Art, 2019-2021 
Painting Atelier, New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, 2017- 2021
Continuing Studies in Drawing and Painting: The Art Students League of New York; School of Visual Arts; Fashion Institute of Technology, 2015-2019
Continuing Studies in Book Arts: The Center for Book Arts, NYC, 2015-2019
Continuing Studies in Painting and Drawing: School of Visual Arts, 1992-1995

Photo above, copyright © 2018 and courtesy of Marco Palli