Grace Martin Taylor was born in Morgantown, West Virginia and first went to Provincetown, Massachusetts in the summer of 1929 at the invitation of her older cousin, Blanche Lazzell. Dissatisfied by her studio arts education at West Virgina University and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, she began making white-line woodcuts, renewing her passion in the arts and establishing her career as an artist. She returned to Provincetown every summer for the following 28 years, in which she became a founder of the American Color Print Society and the Woodcut Society in Kansas City. However, her home-base remained in Charleston, West Virginia, where she had a fruitful career in education at the Mason College of Music and Fine Arts, where she taught for over 40 years, eventually becoming the dean and retiring in 1968.
