Art Grice is a highly skilled photographer with a life history of sharing his time, talent, and expertise with fellow artists. His early years were in Massachusetts and California. In 1964 he was drafted into the Army and ended up in Alaska to work as a battalion artist drawing charts.
Following his years of service, he moved to Vancouver BC where he, his wife and another couple opened the Mind’s Eye Gallery, one of the first photography galleries on the West Coast. Soon after, he and friends added a non-profit organization called VIEW, which offered workshops and lectures in art photography.
He came to Bainbridge Island in the late 1970s where he converted an old barn into a cabinet shop, starting to work as a general contractor. But, a decade later, he turned the shop first into his studio and then into a gallery that offered exhibitions of work by artists in a host of diverse media. He was one of the founders of Exhibition magazine, was instrumental in starting the gallery at Bainbridge Performing Arts, and was co-producer of “Connections,” a series of digital art seminars.
Art’s expertise is in photographing architecture and artwork. His photography has been published in magazines in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. He has conducted discussion groups with local artists to share all aspects of that expertise as well as to teach about issues such as intellectual property and philosophy to pragmatic considerations such as finance and marketing.
Art seems always to be at work deeply involved in one project while investigating another. Let us be grateful that we have among us this restless soul who has boundless curiosity and an eagerness to share, who is willing to roll up his sleeves and try out new things and then report back to us on how they work.