The Artist Donna Marshall

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Created on Monday, 12 November 2012 18:46

Written by Jason Zheng

ST. JOHNSBURY - Donna Marshall is a Vermont local artist who has been working on pottery as well as watercolor painting for years.

She grew up in an artist family. Her father was a professor in an art college in Boston, so she was always surrounded by art when she was young.

 Mrs. Marshall was an English major and an art minor when she was studying in the University of New Hampshire, but she took a lot of art courses, like painting, drawing and a lot of art history.

After graduation, Mrs. Marshall applied the Peace Corps program and taught art in Morocco for two years from 1963 to 1965.

After she came back to America, she started teaching art in the Peacham School for six years from 1973 to 1979 and more than 20 years in a school called Apple Wild in Massachusetts from 1979 to 2001.

After she retired in 2001, Mrs. Marshall moved back to her own house with her husband in Vermont in 2001 and joined the Artisan Guild in St. Johnsbury, which has a little over 100 Vermont artists. She works in the guild at least twice a month.

For the spare time, Mrs. Marshall would meet a group of friends very other week at each other’s house. They call themselves the “Monday painters”. Each meeting would last about two hours and a half and Mrs. Marshall considers it a good chance to socialize.