Grace DuVall is an independent photographer, fashion designer and graphic designer. She is a recent graduate of VCU School of the Arts in Richmond, VA, where she received her BFA in Sculpture + Extended Media with a minor in Fashion Design.

Grace specializes in the artistic field of Wearable Art, a genre in which art and clothing are fused into spectacular, one-of-a-kind garments. Her goal as an artist is to stretch the boundaries of clothing, morphing it into wearable sculpture and art. She combines fabric with more exotic materials, such as rubber gloves, wood, pantyhose or feathers, to create spectacular garments that wow an audience. Most people see clothing as simply a method for covering and concealing their bodies, but Grace sees them as so much more; she sees the incredible artistic potential that a garment can hold.

Since her first “Best in Show” at the 2007 Richmond Wearable Art fashion show, Grace has immersed herself into this fused world of art and clothing. She opened the SEAMLESS: Computational Couture fashion show at the Museum of Science in
Boston, MA to a sold-out house of 1,200 people, won “Best in Show” at FORCE in Baton Rouge, LA and produced Richmond's 2008 Wearable Art fashion show. Grace has also exhibited two garments at the world's most prestigious Wearable Art Fashion show, World of Wearable Art in New Zealand. Most recently Grace collaborated with textiles designer Anne Douglas Shaw to create a line of funiture-inspired clothing under their new lable Douglas and DuVal.

Grace has been sewing clothing since the age of ten. She began with deconstructing and reconstructing pants into skirts, t-shirts into dresses and turning muumuus into sassy cocktail dresses. From there she began making dresses from patterns, and then made clothing entirely from scratch. For ten years she has worked in costume shops, theater companies and her own living room making costumes and clothing for herself and others. Grace loves adapting vintage style to modern aesthetics and relies on her love affair with thrift shops and antique malls to provide her inspiration.

In addition to Wearable Art, Grace is also a seamstress and designer of ordinary clothing, a photographer, graphic designer, dancer, stargazer, bicycler, camper, thrift shopper and daydreamer. No matter what, Grace never wants to stop sewing, dancing, laughing or loving every moment of her extraordinary life.