Miss LexAnn DeWeerd

Background: I am honored to be teaching at GRACE, as I actually graduated from GRACE as a high schooler in 2001. I enjoyed taking my first art classes at GRACE, where I learned how much I loved to oil paint. Since then, I have grown as an artist, using all kinds of media. Through the years, I have sold dozens of oil paintings, participated in Artprize, and have been commissioned on many occasions to create art for various clients.

Also, I have a huge passion for art photography, black and white film photography. I studied clinical nutrition and herbalism at Blue Heron Academy of the Healing Arts and Sciences, where I received my certification to be a Master Herbalist.

In contrast, my background involved mostly sports and fitness, as I was a figure skater and coached children and adults in figure skating, and due to an injury in 2004, I believe God redirected my life-path. It was then that I truly delved into the fine arts in a new way, and I knew God was working in my life to do more with me than just athleticism. I live in Grand Rapids during the school year, and for the last 5 summers, I have enjoyed living and working at a Christian Conference Center on Lake Michigan in Norton Shores, Mich. 

My life go-to verse has become Ecclesiastes 9:10 “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might”… I have learned to be “all there where ever I am” and no matter how menial or grand the task, do it all to the glory of God, my Creator!