All Images, © pcopyright Fu l l =0C i r c l e. .0A r t		Grace Walker Goad's artistic ability was discovered at age four. Challenged communicatively, socially, cognitively and otherwise with the diagnosis of autism, Grace demonstrates intense focus during her weekly one-on-one art-making sessions with art therapists and art teachers. Though verbal, but not yet conversational, she works with intention in the careful placement of each brush stroke, clay formation or collage matter -- her key strengths being composition and color. As a part of her diagnosis, Grace has low muscle tone in her hands, making it difficult -- even after nine years of intervention -- to write her name. Yet, it is, not in spite of, but in part because of how autism often enhances right brain artistic abilities that she creates art that has developed a local and national following and patronage, with pieces owned by Sen. Bill Frist, MD and former NFL Miami Dolphin Dan Marino, among others. She also exhibits locally and nationally.