Transplanted to the Denver area in 2004, Carol Grape is a sculptor who spent the previous 15 years living in Northern Kentucky. She has a BFA from Maine College of Art and MFA from Kent State University. Grape was the Chair of the Master of Arts in Art Education program and the Gallery Coordinator at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. She was also an adjunct instructor at Thomas More College in Crestview Hills, Kentucky.

Grape received a Kentucky Arts Council 2000 Artist Fellowship and has received two grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women. She has had one person shows at St. Xavier University in Chicago and the Carnegie in Covington, Kentucky. She has also written a step-by-step instruction book Handmade Jewelry: Simple Steps to Creating Wearable Art.

Currently Grape is owner of grape imaging, ltd. She does real estate photography and virtual tours for numerous REALTORS^® in the Denver Metro Area. Grape is also an active Affiliate with the South Metro Denver REALTOR^® Association and the Mile High Women's Council of REALTORS^®.