Ginger
GINGER is a face painter, artist and multi-media professional whose work celebrates the humor of life. She grew up in a town with three stop-lights and a 7-Eleven in rural Colorado.
A small town was a great place for a budding artist’s imagination to grow. Employed as the town radio station’s youngest board operator and announcer by age 16, she was voted most likely to succeed of her high school class.
After graduation from Webster University in St. Louis (including a semester in London), Ginger entered the corporate world of video production and equipment sales.
She’s always kept a hand in the art of filmmaking. She has participated in numerous independent film projects including the 48 Hour Film Festival, and worked on many freelance pieces, including memento videos for families.
In 2002, Ginger moved to San Francisco and studied Face Painting under Peggy Ford, who was then the Program Director of Circus Center, and an accomplished Face Painter. Peggy was one of the first female clowns ever to graduate Ringling Bros. Clown College. She toured with Ringling Bros. as one of the first female members of its famed clown alley, then went on to become the Artistic Director of the social circus company Make*A*Circus.
Later, as Program Director of the Circus Center, Peggy helped to establish and run San Francisco's famed Clown Conservatory, one of the nation's most respected training grounds for clowns. Peggy Ford was an amazing teacher of Face Painting and gave Ginger her first pair of white, paint splattered painter’s overalls. This outfit became Ginger’s signature look as a Face Painter. It was a passing of the torch, so to speak.
