Grace Welch
digital painting
2024

Grace Welch (2002-2021) was creative, funny, persistent, charismatic, and loved her family and horses. She spent much of her childhood in state custody in Vermont, including harrowing stays at Woodside Juvenile Rehabilitation Center, and died of a drug overdose at 19. Her story was told by journalist Joe Sexton in Seven Days, a weekly periodical in Vermont. You can read the article here.