[3] During the Great Depression, she left school in order to be part of the National Youth Administration.
[2] Blizzard developed paranoid schizophrenia after these events and her art helped her deal with visions she saw and the feelings she needed to work through.
[3] She began making art for sale in the late 1950s and sold her pottery in her daughter, Mary's, store.
[6] She used to find the material to create her ceramic art in the creek behind her house in the Appalachian hills.
"[4] The work is dark in terms of theme, as Jonathan Williams describes it, "they make you think twice about human despair.