SANTA CRUZ — Art is a medium that has the potential to outlive its creators. Years to centuries after an artist has died, their works can still wow audiences living in a completely different world than the one they lived in.

However, for every “Mona Lisa” or “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” there are countless works of art that never see a wider audience, and when their creator goes, so do they. Artists with large bodies of work often bestow it upon their families, but due to the large amount of paperwork, these works sometimes end up gathering mold in storage or — in the worst-case scenario — in a landfill.

This is something that has been weighing on the mind of Boulder Creek resident Michelle Grapa. Her mother, Marie Peters , is an 85-year-old painter and abstract artist in the Boston ar

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