Peggy Black is a full-time textile studio artist in rural Jenner Township, Pennsylvania. She is an improvisational machine piecer creating original art without using rulers or measurements. Rhythm and repetition, as well as abstract line patterning, are at the core of her designs. During the past several years, she has been dyeing her own fabrics using wringer washers and MX dyes. Additionally, she also utilizes surface design techniques using thickened dyes with screenprinting, paper lamination, monoprinting and shibori. Recently Peggy has begun designing fiber art with earth pigments

In 2017 Peggy was honored to receive Best of Show Quilt National ’17 at The Dairy Barn Art Center in Athens, Ohio. She received Best of Show at Biennial 2020, a regional multi-media show. She has also received Awards of Excellence and Honorable Mentions at national and regional juried shows, including Quilt Art Elements at the Wayne Art Center in Wayne, PA, Form, Not Function at the Carnegie Center for Arts and Science Center in New Albany, IN, and Quilts=Art=Quilts at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn, NY. She has work in several private collections.

Peggy is active on The Gallery Committee at Laurel Arts, Somerset, PA, has participated in their Souper Bowl Event, and permanent collection documentation.