she`s so skirt!

Marygrace Perkins let’s the sparks fly.

“The minute I hit the torch, I knew this was for me,” explains Marygrace, a Roswell metal sculptor. “My home is what first got me interested,” says the 50-year-old. “I kept thinking we could use something on the walls.” Today, three years after taking her first welding class at the Spruill Center for the Arts, Marygrace talks of how the metal she comes across during her “dumpster diving” still inspires her. “When I go to the junkyard, I’m like a kid in a candy store.” The wife and mother of two left the corporate world after 30 years to take a chance on her passion. She now works part- time as a freelance graphic designer and is full-time in the basement sending sparks flying. She handles chop saws, mig welders and plasma cutters with ease and has received awards for her beautiful and unique work. “One year my son asked me what I wanted for Christmas,” says Marygrace. “And when I told him a chop saw, he said, ‘Mom, you have more tools than Dad!’”