Grace Schlitt is an architect and painter whose work explores the intersection of built form and creative expression. She comes from a long line of creative women and is proud to be named after her great-grandmother Grace Cosgrove Gale, a prolific artist in the Chicago area at the turn of the 20th century.

Grace studied architecture at Auburn University (War Eagle!) and began her professional practice in Washington DC. During this time, she pursued her passion for painting and drawing through classes at the Corcoran Art Museum and the Smithsonian Institution.

In 1990, Grace moved to Seattle, where she practiced architecture with several well-known firms—Olson Sundberg, Hoshide Williams, and Miller Hull—while continuing to develop her artistic practice. Since 2020, she has run her own architecture practice, Grace Schlitt Creative, helping clients design and create their forever homes. In addition to her architecture work, she has maintained a steady art practice, taking classes at Gage Academy of Art, Pratt Fine Arts Center, and Cornish College of the Arts, and participating in numerous workshops with artist Anita Lehmann. Her work has been featured at Siderail Artist Collective, Columbia City Gallery, Tieton 10x10x10 show, and most recently at the Confluence Gallery in Twisp, Washington.

Her interest in the creative process led her to coursework at the University of Washington in Educational Psychology and Learning Sciences, with an emphasis on Design Thinking. She has taught workshops on creativity to students of all ages, including architecture students at the University of Washington and Human Centered Design students at Whitman College.

For Grace, architecture and art are parallel practices that continuously inform and enrich each other. The creative process—whether designing a building or developing a painting—relies on the same fundamental skills: observation, iteration, problem-solving, and a willingness to explore unexpected solutions.

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