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MASTER OF HER CRAFT
Working With Wood
Sometimes Shaker-style simple, sometimes provocative,
Liz Grace's handcrafted pieces express beauty in different ways.
WOODWORKER LIZ GRACE is moved
to create by the energy she experiences
and by the experiences themselves.
Sometimes she creates because she
feels she must.
She takes a very personal approach
when designing handcrafted furniture
for a customer, working with them
closely. Grace, who's owned River's Bend
Woodworking Studio in Plymouth for the
past nine years and who is member of
the New Hampshire Furniture Masters,
also wants to honor the simplicity of
beauty while creating a functional piece.
At the same time, she creates art that
may make people feel uncomfortable or
find difficult to talk about. Her bench
" Have a Seat, Everything Is Fine " was
in response to the August 2020, officerinvolved
shooting of Jacob Blake in
Kenosha, Wisconsin, that sparked unrest
in the community and clashes with
police. To create it, she and a friend
used a shotgun to blast holes in the
bench top-one shot for every bullet
that Blake took.
She created the art piece " Where Do
They All Go " after going through cancer
treatment, and says she was simply
driven to make it. " It was a catharsis. It
was a need to express something. " She's
now cancer-free.
Growing up in New England, Grace
always loved to work with wood, but
in the early '70s, high school girls were
expected to sew and cook, not carve
and sand. She graduated from UNH
and later worked as a crop consultant
in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, but kept
practicing with wood. Eventually, she
began her woodworking career in earnBY
EMILY REILY | PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOHN W. HESSION
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