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Arts and crafts: Hands are focus of Trolley Museum exhibit

Ask Sally Wiener Grotta what makes a hand fascinating, and she won’t mention softness, smoothness or elaborate manicures.

Grace Hatton’s working hands are part of a growing series Sally Wiener Grotta has assembled. The photographer is looking for more artisans to be her subjects....

Grace Hatton’s working hands are part of a growing series Sally Wiener Grotta has assembled. The photographer is looking for more artisans to be her subjects....

“All the hands that I have been photographing are not the glossy magazine hands of beauty, but they’re honestly hands that work, that have seen life, that have a great deal of character.”

Grotta, a writer and photographer from Newfoundland in Wayne County, has spent the past several months visiting crafters and photographing them, with emphasis on their skillful hands......

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