Grace Wever

Grace Wever

Grace Harbin Wever is a self-taught mixed media artist whose studio and home are in Union Grove, Alabama (near Huntsville). Her collages incorporate brilliantly-colored layers of silk, hand-dyed cotton, metallic and synthetic fabrics, paper and thread. Iridescence & transparency bring additional light and airiness to her work, while stitching embellishes the design and adds texture and three-dimensionality. Most of her works are mounted, glazed and framed. Grace’s works are both abstract and representational. Spiritual themes are also depicted in several recent collections. “On Wings of the Wind” is a 13-part series illustrating poetry from King David’s Song of Deliverance from Second Samuel. The Striking Stone is based on a dream sequence from the Book of Daniel. Within the Walls, Beyond the Gates is a 19-part series exhibited at the Sangre de Cristo Arts Center in Pueblo, CO. Wever was selected as the Panoply Arts Festival poster artist in 2013, and the work “Luminescence” is on permanent display at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville, by the Huntsville Arts Council.

Galleries representing her work have included Vargas & Harbin Studio Gallery in Norcross, GA, Hunter Wolff Gallery in Colorado Springs, Michael’s on Main in Canon City, CO, and Gallery 150 in Salida, CO. Her work is found in private collections throughout the US, and at institutions including Exempla Medical Center in Lafayette, the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes at the Anschutz Medical Center in Denver, and Alabama Psychological Services Center. She is a past president and Board member of the Arkansas Valley Art Center at Colorado Mountain College.

Prior to her retirement to the world of art, Grace worked in science, business and public policy. She earned a Ph.D. From Temple University, and was a research fellow at Baylor Medical and at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Subsequently she was a research faculty member at the Institute of Optics, a manager and laboratory director at Eastman Kodak, and a senior manager with KPMG Peat Marwick. Wever chaired the Department of Commerce’s National Sea Grant Panel, which advises NOAA on coastal and marine research.

Grace was a founder and the first president of the Council of Great Lakes Industries, a binational public policy organization. Her book, “Strategic Environmental Management,” published by John Wiley & Sons, has received international recognition. Grace also earned a black belt in Tae Kwon Do. She is married to Albrecht Wever, a physicist, engineer and innovator. Their children include David Wever, M.D. of Birmingham, Ingrid Marie Felts (co-leader of Watters Felts Project, a six-member jazz group based in Huntsville), and Michael Wever, engineering director, of Dothan.

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