Steve Grater

Tucson, Arizona

Since 2022, Steve Grater’s direct metal sculptures have been raising eyebrows and loosening pocketbooks in the US. When not chasing wildland fires, Steve studied blacksmithing with Frank Turley, bronze casting with Tom Barringer, assisted Jerry Harris, and ran a business in Tucson making and selling artistic and functional blacksmith art. In midlife, Steve retired from firefighting, married his muse, and found that manipulating ferrous and nonferrous metals into clastic and anticlastic sculptures suited his artistic passion. Steve’s work is placed at the Tucson Jewish Community Center and in public sculpture walks in Moab and St. George, Utah, and Lafayette, Colorado. His work is represented in dozens of private collections.

For more information, visit www.stevegratersculpture.com.