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BIOGRAPHY Tracy is from the eastern seaboard and maintains a strong work ethic and environmental awareness from that influence. Tracy was born in Maine and raised outside of Boston in "Waldon Pond" territory. Early visits to her grandmother's home in the middle of Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) made an impression on her as a girl. First, seeing individual artists mysteriously dressed in black and appearing as monks, and secondly, wandering through the open halls and campus, galleries and studios as a youth. After graduating from high school along the downeast coast of Maine, Tracy experienced different schools of creative thought for nearly a decade (1980-1989). Concentrating on fine arts, drawing from observation, painting and editorial illustration, she attended The Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, The Art Institute of Boston before receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1989. As a student Tracy's illustrations appeared in the Providence Journal, Harvard Medical Review, Psychology Today, Boston Magazine, Cleveland Magazine, Chicago Magazine, the Detroit Free Press, LA Times, the Chicago Tribune and other national publications. Tracy's talents cover a plethora of mediums; painting, public art, installations, projects, books and writing. The energy level is immense, prolific, as Tracy experiments, invents and reinvents works that interact and react. The connections within the bodies of work are not readily apparent, yet, the common thread can be found. The element of time winds through the palimpsest of memory found in her writing, the suggested quests in her paintings, or the worn materials altered by nature in her projects. Tracy's art is as much about her life as it is about the time in which we live. Tracy has professional instructed adult art education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, guest taught at Columbia College, and mentored children at the P.E.A.C.H club as well as participated in workshops, panel topics, slide lectures and studio tours. She continues outreach through class visits to her studio, SAIC Internship Program, and individual mentoring. Her painting, public art and projects have been reviewed in Public Art Review, The Chicago Tribune, The New Art Examiner, TimeOut Chicago and The Chicago Reader to name a few. Tracy has appeared on WTTW's Artbeat and WBEZ'S Chicago Public Radio, 848 with Steve Edwards. Ms. Tracy now lives working closely with her woodworker husband, Joel, in Chicago . Tracy exhibits publicly and is in numerous collections, including two full room installations, in progress, at US Equities. Influences of an older generation cultivate strength and commitment by example and encouragment: Grandmother's Sylvia Godfrey Street and Doris Campbell, mother Kathleen Tracy, and mentors Diana Beliard and Diann DeWeese Smith.  SOCIAL CONTRIBUTION I encourage individual giving with commitment to cause and have supported these groups: Aids Foundation of Chicago Art for India, the Andu Illam home (Abode of love) Artists for Humanity Ashoka Bandana Project Barewalls, SAIC scholarship fund Barr-Harris Children's Grief Center Between Friends The Bioneers Bridge Magazine Cabrini Connection Christian Industrial League Connection Arts Chicago Counterquo Creatives for Kerry Deborah's Place Dolores Huerta Foudation Evanston Northwestern, Susan Harris Fund Girl360 Gross Park Neighborhood Foundation Halo Foundation Heartland Alliance, Designs for Dignity Hyde Park Art Center Indestructible, ALS film by Ben Byer Inspiration Cafe Lincoln Park Conservatory Living Room Cafe Louise A. Weiss Memorial Hospital Mary Meyer School Oxbow The P.E.A.C.H Club Personal PAC Chicago Perspectives Charter School Ragdale Artist Residency Rehabilitation Institute Chicago Remains Theater Rock for Kids Rogers Park Garden Group SGA Youth & Family Services Solar Cookers International Sustain Chicago, Family Farmers Teen Living The Land Connection Three Arts Club Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Voices and Faces Project Young Women's Leadership Charter School World Bicycle Relief  SUPPORTER Promoting the mission of ArtMap, connectng artists and the community.  ECO ACTIVISM Past member, editor, and artist for GreenGirlsGlobal  Founder of Etsy Earth Team MOST RECENT CIRRICULUM VITAE Exhibitions/Installations 2008 "Heating Up", Evanston Art Center, Evanston, Illinios: October 2006 "Positive to Negative", International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, Illinois: May-July COLLECTIONS (Selected) U.S. Equities, Chicago, Illinois Robert and Susan Wislow, Chicago, Illinois ABG Investment Group, Inc. Chicago, Illinois Bette Cerf Hill, Bruce Sagan, Chicago, Illinois Edwin P. and Joan Tiffany, Boston, Massachusetts Audrey Gale, Chicago, Illinois Stephen Colbert and Evie Mcgee, New York, New York Steven Burns and Kate Neisser, Chicago, Illinois Larry and Sue Yellen, Chicago, Illinois Diana Beliard, Chicago, Illinois Valerie Hoffman, Santa Barbara, California David Korslund, Amersterdam, Netherlands Tiggy Hatfield, London, Great Britain |
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