Georgia Blizzard

Georgia Blizzard (May 7, 1919 – June 2, 2002) was an American ceramic artist from Virginia. She was self-taught and her work is in the permanent collections of several American art museums.

Biography Blizzard was born in Saltville in 1919. She claimed Apache and Irish ancestry. When she was little, she and her family moved to Plum Creek. Her mother taught Blizzard and her sister how to create art using a pit-fire method. During the Great Depression, she left school in order to be part of the National Youth Administration. She worked in a munitions factory in Bristol during World War II and after that, worked at a textile mill in Chilhowie until 1958. Blizzard had contracted black lung and lost one of her lungs. In the early 1980s, her neighbor, Michael Martin, contacted a friend to take some of Blizzard's work to a gallery in Buckhead run by Judith Alexander where Jonathan Williams discovered her work.

Blizzard died in Glade Springs on June 2, 2002. At first, she used a coal kiln built by her neighbor, Michael Martin, but later in life used an electric kiln.

She is a self-taught artist. Her art "expressed her memories, surroundings, and religious views." the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Asheville Art Museum, the High Museum and the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Museum.