Palmetto Woodturners is excited to present our own Peggy Schmid for October 2025!
Peggy E. Schmid Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the Atlanta College of Art in 1990 (now the Savannah College of Art and Design). Studied to become an Art Educator at Georgia State University where she was an honors student. As a sculptor, she produced work for the movie "Freejack", with Mick Jagger and Emilio Estevez, created the Pinwheel Project at Tula Art Foundation in Buckhead, a featured artist on the program “Artage” for the City of Atlanta, and had works featured at ABC No Rio in New York and drawings in the Gorilla Girl Movement in Chicago. Several of her bowls were featured in the HGTV Green Home in 2012. Demonstrated at several Woodturning Symposiums: Southern States Woodturning in Cartersville, Georgia, Turning Southern Style, Dalton, Georgia, The Florida Woodturning Symposium, and 2016 AAW Symposium in Atlanta. Ms. Schmid has been an instructor on several occasions at Arrowmont in Gatlinburg and is a frequent instructor at The Florida School of Woodwork. She conducts woodturning retreats for women to help advance their skill levels and create a sense of community among women makers. She also is a demonstrator at many of the woodturning clubs in the Southeast. Ms. Schmid has served as the President of the Georgia Association of Woodturners in Atlanta and was the Secretary Treasurer of Apple Ridge Woodturners in Ellijay Georgia. She is currently a member of the Etowah River Woodturners in Canton Georgian She has won awards both as an artist, sculptor, and woodturner and her works are in private and corporate collections throughout the country. You can check her work out on her web page peggyschmid.net.
Hands-on Class
October 10, 2025, from 8:00 am to 4:30 pm.
Mann Tool & Supply, 802 Chris Drive, West Columbia, SC 29169
Cost: $135
Class Description – (10 students max)
This is a Red Mallee burl which is a hollow form with an ebony finial and insert. This burl is mounted in a way that saves the beauty of the burl but also highlights the glory of the exotic hardwood burl. This is a frequent demonstration which shows how to mount the burl, hollow it, and then disguise the mounting technique! (see download)
This HOC is not a beginner's class. You can research Peggy if you like. She has a video on You tube you may watch on her demonstration. It is, West Georgia Woodturners, March 7, 2024, Peggy Schmid Burl Cap Demonstration.
Demonstration
October 11, 2025 (8:30am to 1:00pm - demonstration starts at 9:00am)
Mann Tool & Supply, 802 Chris Drive, West Columbia, SC 29169