"I begain taking Private Art School lessons from "Nellie Solberg" at her 6th Street Studio at age 8, and took weekly lessons for over 5 years. In the years I studied under Nellie there were a few others who studied with me at her studio, but they studied only for a year or a few months, Each year bought some one different. I noticed alot of the boys would draw so light soft and gentle and a lot of the girls would draw so dark bold and hard. I first learned basic shape, pencil, charcoal, Ink, Water colors, oil pastels and Oils, how to draw with twigs to teach us respect for good tools and to show us me how important our tools are, and how to study a subject and then draw the subject from memory after it had been removed, helping us to better study and visualize our work. before I would draw a picture I would study it until i could close my eyes and see it in my mind drawn line for line, then i would start drawing. Nellie and I shared alot of the same interests. I enjoyed walking in the woods and picking wild dried weeds and making table arrangements with these weeds and collecting antiques, this was not wired but it was somthing my family was not a custom to doing, and you needed to follow a line with my family, and so i didnt really fit in with them all that well, and so as a small child i was looked at as being strange and wired, but I found Nellie enjoyed these same things. Nellie made me feel comfortable with my creative side and so i started not to feel wired about some of my feelings and my art work and it opened up new doors of creativeness for me. Nellie had me drawing anything and everything and most people found my drawings of animails were of some of my best work, even though I drew almost everything and not just animals, people really enjoyed my drawings of cats. Nellie had put on an Open House for me at her 6th Studio where I had a "One-Man Art Show" the show went very well and I sold a lot of works that day :)
I also received Ribbons from the Bismarck Art Association (B.A.A.) for a Cat drawing exhibit. And had cat drawings exhibits displayed year round in the early 70s at the Provident Life Building. When I turned 16 I did some paintings by Frank Frazetta and at that time people really liked them, and I had sold many Frazetta copys at art shows, and then I started to create my own works from dreams and feelings that were similar to the Frazetta style, but I tryed to do less fantasy and more reality, of people who have lost everything and living in a nightmare of homelessness and poverty."
Perry has been in numerous yearly Art Shows in the Bismarck Mandan area. Some yearly included the First Presbyterian Church Annual Art Show, Bismarck Art Association Annual Art Shows, Mandan Art Associations Annual Art Shows, and Kirkwood Mall Art Shows, Bismarck Junior Collage Art Show. Displays at the Provident Life Building and the North Dakota Treasury Office by their request.

Perry has worked in unlimited mediums, but perfers Ink and Water colors as a day to day art expression.
Perry's creativity didn't stop with canvas, he also has done many wax paintings on fabric, Sand blasts art work into glass and stone and does welding art works, and a few cement fountain creations. I like architectural design, maintenance and fixing things, most of my employment were maintenance jobs. I feel i reflect my art in everything I do. "Karen" a freind of mine and Art Tearcher at Shiloh Christain School would be teaching her class about renaissance men like Leonardo Da Vinci, artists who were talented at doing many things. Karen would invite me and introduce me to her class as a renaissance man, She would tell her class that I could be teaching it :) Now I'm in my 50s and trying to do photography but wondered if I should be teaching art, giving private art lessons in my studio behind my house, teaching all the things that I have learned as a student working with Nellie.

Perry was a Director of the Mandan Jaycees from 1977 to 1988, where he was Sign maker for the Rodeo Arena, Where he sold 6 hand painted signs a year bring in over $4000.00 in donatings. He was also the Parade Chairman, Float Chairman & Fire Works Chairman and Received the "John H Ambuster Award" in 1983 for being the most active Jaycee member for 2 consecutive years. Perry was nominated President of the Mandan Jaycee Chapter in 1984. In 1985 he accepted the Lord into his life and his art works turned to more contemporary style.

Perry's love to create moved to the internet where he started building web sites in 1997, and won 3 different beta testing awards from Microsoft and a digital video suite of his choice from Roxio.com, and a nice full page story was published about Perry Schuetz on the ROXIO Website in the Fall of 2005, this was a great honor for Perry since Roxio.com sells software world wide.

Perry begain working on the Shiloh Christain School Business web site's in 2002, where he created many GIFs put together the photo gallery and of Events and sports, Perry is a Certified HTML web Developer. Perry has completed a Complete Course on Facilitys Management through the Rockhurst University, 2 years of Electronic Technology with Bell & Howell.

Perry has 3 adult boys, 'Eric' has completed the Le Cordon Bleu culinary school in Minneapolis MN and lives in Grand Fork ND with Ginny and their 2 yr old daughter Ella (made me a Grandpa), 'Joe' has completed Power Plant Engineering School and is working full time at a Power Plant in Madison WI, and Brandon is currently going to Collage for Journalism.