{"id":16880,"date":"2025-08-14T23:07:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T23:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=16880"},"modified":"2025-08-14T23:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T23:08:10","slug":"alice-grace-a-life-in-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/alice-grace-a-life-in-color\/","title":{"rendered":"Alice Grace: A Life in Color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16881 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ag-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ag-243x300.jpg 243w, http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ag-202x250.jpg 202w, http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ag.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/>By Audrey Johnson<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Special to The Truth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Martin D. Porter Gallery at The Portal at TSA (Toledo School for the Arts) proudly presents <strong>\u201cAlice Grace: A Life in Color,\u201d<\/strong> a solo exhibition celebrating the life and creative legacy of 84-year-old multidisciplinary artist <strong>Alice Grace<\/strong>. The exhibition will be on display from August 5 through August 30, 2025, August is the artist\u2019s birthday month.<\/p>\n<p>Alice Grace began her artistic journey in ninth grade in Louisiana, drawing maps and labeling parishes for classmates\u2014a humble start that blossomed into a lifelong pursuit of expression through diverse mediums, including quilting, doll making, acrylic and oil painting, ceramic figures, wood carving, and button making.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll that I see in my environment is my inspiration,\u201d Grace shares. \u201cA group of people walking, a child posed in prayer, the sky and land\u2014all churn my inner desire to capture the moment on canvas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPainting is my therapeutic free association about the world around me. I love to show feelings through textures and vibrant colors,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n<p>Her work is a deeply personal reflection of memory, faith, and connection to place\u2014offering viewers a vibrant, textured world grounded in everyday beauty and emotional truth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Audrey Johnson Special to The Truth The Martin D. Porter Gallery at The Portal at TSA (Toledo School for the Arts) proudly presents \u201cAlice Grace: A Life in Color,\u201d a solo exhibition celebrating the life and creative legacy of 84-year-old multidisciplinary artist Alice Grace. The exhibition will be on display from August 5 through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[250,17],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[306],"class_list":["post-16880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16883,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16880\/revisions\/16883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16880"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=16880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}