Biographical information
Peggy Grant
Local artist, art curator, and consultant, Peggy Grant, recently made a generous donation of glass artwork to Carlson Library from her personal collection.
Peggy Grant has served as Art Director of 20 North Gallery in downtown Toledo for the last fifteen years. The gallery recently celebrated its 100th exhibit. Among her many other accomplishments, Peggy has organized Sculpture in the Park, an outdoor sculpture exhibit, located in the triangular park at the Indian, Bancroft and Secor Road intersection at the entrance of Ottawa Hills. During her career she has actively served on many benevolent and cultural organizations, and has earned numerous awards including Toledo Botanical Garden’s Crosby Award for outstanding women in the arts, and the Milestones Award for the Arts from the Toledo YWCA. For the last five years, Peggy has been travelling with an exhibit of her late husband’s art, Holocaust survivor Adam Grant. This exhibit is entitled “Adam Grant: Figure Master” and has been shown in museums and universities around the world including one in Krakow in his homeland, Poland. This exhibit will be on display at the Polish Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, beginning February 2009.
The beautiful glass artwork donated by Mrs. Grant is on display in the Information Commons on the first floor of Carlson Library. The display has received much positive feedback from students, faculty, staff and visitors and, as one student so aptly described, “makes an already beautiful place even more beautiful.”
Source: Collections and Connections (Newsletter from the College of University Libraries, eLearning, and Academic Support), Volume II, Issue 1, January 2009: Page 1.
Dorothy MacKenzie Price Biography
Dorothy is a life long Toledoan. She graduated from The University of Toledo in 1948 with a degree in Business.
Dorothy is an active supporter of UT through her philanthropic gifts as well as being member of the Alumni Association and Women & Philanthropy.
Most recently, Dorothy donated a portion of her art collection to the Carlson Library, which included glass works of art, as well as masks from around the world.
The Dorothy MacKenzie Price Music Scholarship supports undergraduate and graduate students who are music majors, based upon performance skill, musicianship and academic achievement.
She also supports the Library as well as the Students for Medical Missions. Dorothy has been a very active community volunteer, giving her time to many NW Ohio organizations.
Source: University of Toledo, Institutional Advancement, 2009.