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American Hands is an ongoing photographic study by Sally Wiener Grotta, who is creating narrative portraits of traditional artisans, such as a blacksmith, quilting bee, spinner, glass blower, weaver, tatting lacemaker, papermaker and so forth.

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American Hands exhibition prints are created on an HP Designjet Z3200 Photo fine art printer,
provided by Hewlett Packard.

American Hands is sponsored by:




This project is supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts,
a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
& the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

And supported by grants from:

All photos and editorial copy on this site are the copyrighted property of Sally Wiener Grotta.

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