Being born the same year that Moab, Utah was crowned the “Uranium Capital of the World,” Tiger Keogh was set to have adventure be a major theme of her life. She was born the 4th of 11 children to a geologist father and a biologist mother; science was important. Art was seen as an extravagance that life in the high desert could rarely accommodate.
Other than a two-year adventurous sojourn to Cooper Landing, Alaska at the ages of 4 and 5, Tiger spent here childhood years in Moab with her main hobby being horse-riding. After graduating from Grand County High School, she spent a year in New Zealand as a foreign exchange student studying drafting. She went on to study nursing and anthropology at the University of Utah. Eventually, she found a way to more fully express her artistic nature by completing a BFA in Textile Arts at the University of Oregon.After marrying in her mid 20’s, Tiger and her husband moved back to Alaska and they welcomed three children in the ten years they lived there: Molly (now 31), Caitlin (now 29) and Quinn (now 27). Life in the small, rain saturated, remote village of Cordova, AK called Tiger to begin a retail bookstore – which still exists today.
As Tiger’s children became school-aged, it became apparent that the local public school system seemed antiquated. Tiger’s children were home-schooled and when Waldorf Education was discovered by many parents in the town, it was decided to hire a recent graduate of Rudolf Steiner College in CA to spend the summer teaching Waldorf Summer camps to a collection of 20 children. The family was hooked and decided to make the move “outside” to a community with an established Waldorf School.Eugene, OR was chosen as the next stop in a life filled with movement; all of Tiger’s children went through the grades at the Eugene Waldorf School. While there, Tiger completed her Waldorf Teacher Training for the grades, with one practicum being completed in the kindergarten. Tiger served as a teacher and worked in administration there. Later, she studied Waldorf High School Education with Rudolf Steiner College, and become certified in K-12 for Waldorf Education.
In 2001, Tiger decided to move to New York and take up the teaching of textile arts/handwork at the Waldorf School of Garden City on Long Island for grades 1 through 12. After several years there, Tiger decided to end that urban adventure and return to Moab, buying the rural home she grew up in from her parents and beginning a Waldorf inspired initiative for preschool and kindergarten children, Sego Lily Children’s Garden, in her hometown. What a creative and rewarding experience it has been for Tiger. She is delighted to be near her extended family and have easy access to nature in the middle years of her life. 