About
Daisy is a trained fine artist and designer with over 35 years in the retail and design industry. A graduate from Columbia College Chicago with a degree in Marketing and a minor in Art, she designed merchandise displays for Hallmark and sold her handmade jewelry in boutiques across the Chicagoland area. At the age of 22, she was a Public Relations Account Executive and Special Event Coordinator in Chicago, representing major retail magnates, and working with national and international media. After relocating to Arizona in 2001, Daisy raised a family and worked as a Kitchen Designer for Home Depot (10 years) as an Interior Designer and CAD designer of kitchens, offices, bathrooms, and laundry rooms; Jewelry Design Instructor and Crochet Instructor for Michaels (10 years) specializing in wire wrapping, bead weaving, crimping, et al; Feature Writer for West Valley Real Producers Realtor Trade Magazine (2 years); and a guest teacher with the Arts Academy at West Point Elementary (12 Years). As an active arts advocate with students, she created the costumes, props, and scenery for their school musicals, promotional signage, special event decorations, and was a multi-disciplined Boy Scout merit badge counselor and Marketing Coordinator. Since 2021, Daisy has been the Gallery Manager and Curator for the West Valley Arts Council's Arts HQ Gallery in Surprise, Arizona. Using her retail, woodworking, merchandising, and marketing skills, she also helps emerging artists market themselves and creates custom merchandise displays as needed. She is an accomplished sustainable artist in her own right, and has had her Etsy shop, Distinctly Daisy, since 2009 specializing in wire-wrapped jewelry and crochet. Daisy is a multi-faceted artist preferring to work in wood, watercolor, acrylic, wire, and sculpture.