Margaret Peot is an artist, writer, teacher and paints costumes for Broadway theater, dance, ice shows and arena shows.

BOOK NEWS:

NEW December 6th, 2022 - THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT: Things that Shine, Flash and Glow (Holiday House). Dramatic paintings of lightning, fire, fireworks and more introduces the sources of light—both natural and manmade—that encourage children to look around and observe. This foundational science book will kindle curiosity in physical science and the natural world. The simple text makes science accessible to all ages.

In Fall 2021 Margaret presented AT NIGHT (Muddy Boots), a picture book for ages 0-9 about nocturnal animals and their babies: What's happening in the woods at night while we are snug in bed?

Margaret's other books include an early reader picture book, CROW MADE A FRIEND (Holiday House)(Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2015), INKBLOT: Drip, Splat and Squish Your Way to Creativity (Boyds Mills 2011) was awarded a Eureka! Silver Medal for non-fiction children's books.

The LET'S COLOR TOGETHER series with Sourcebooks: LET'S COLOR TOGETHER, a Shareable Coloring Book for Children and Parents and SECRET WORLDS, full of magical creatures and their tiny abodes, are fun to color with a friend, and

FAIRY HOUSE: A Color, Punch Out and Play Set, joins TEA PARTY and MUSEUM VISIT in the popular Color, Punch Out and Play Set series of fun paper toys to color, punch out and set up in color-able stage sets (Pomegranate Book)

She is also the author of THE SUCCESSFUL ARTIST'S CAREER GUIDE (F&W 2012), STENCIL CRAFT: Techniques for Fashion, Art and Home (F&W), ALTERNATIVE ART JOURNALS (F&W 2012), and MAKE YOUR MARK (Chronicle Books, 2004), voted one of Library Journal's best how-to books of 2004.

Margaret has presented art workshops with cancer survivors, elders, children, parent and teen groups, writers, nurses and caregivers, at The Creative Center at University Settlement's Creative Aging conferences, and their Artist-in-Residence Training program, with EngAGE Utah, at Gilda's Club, The Huntsman Cancer Institute, Operation Exodus in NYC, and at Miami University at Scripps and Opening Minds Through Art.

Margaret has painted costumes at Parsons-Meares, LTD for more than thirty years. Projects include Broadway (Hadestown, Moulin Rouge, Aladdin, The Lion King, Wicked, Turn Off the Dark, Will Rogers Follies, Shrek the Musical, Phantom of the Opera, Mary Poppins, among many others), dance (ABT, Joffrey Ballet, Pilobolus, Feld Ballet, Nevada Ballet), film (Bram Stoker's Dracula), as well as for circuses, arena shows and ice shows.

Margaret teaches fabric painting at FIT (New York's Fashion Institute of Technology) and Dying for the Theater at SUNY Purchase. She has taught costume painting and presented lectures on making a living as an artist at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, UNC, BYU, The Self Employment in the Arts 2013 conference in Chicago, at FIT, Miami University, and USITT-SE in Athens, GA. Margaret is a member of USA 829.

Margaret graduated from Miami University, with an emphasis in painting and fiber arts, and is proud to be serving on the first advisory board for the College of the Creative Arts.

For more information, please visit her website:

www.margaretpeot.com