Peggy Owens thought for 39 years that she was born to be a teacher. She won the typical awards- Teachers' Treasures' Teacher of the Year, Pike Township Champion Teacher, Lilly Teacher Creativity Teaching Scholar, and others she is too old and senile to remember. She taught elementary school and administrator for an excruciating eight years until she paroled herself and went back to teaching children. When she retired in Indiana and moved to West Virginia she became a middle school art and gifted teacher. The was a surprise to all, but most of all, to her. Who knew that if a teacher simply passed the PRAXIS, she was suddenly certified to teach? Upon landing in the art room, she found herself pleasantly surprised and enthralled with art. Kandinsky's circles, Van Gogh's unusually placed body parts, and Picasso's unusual works captured her heart and monopolized her time. She was inspired by Dale Chihuly's glass as well as Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase" and has made any number of "explosions in a shingle factory" of her own- although her explosions have been in her kiln. Based on this fact as well as how she bumbled into art accidentally, she has declared her title to be "Accidental Artist.