MARKUS TRACY
Markus Tracy is a dynamic residency artist who specializes in creative problem solving and community connection. Defining community arts is when you explore new artistic strategies through community dialogue, social activism, and partnerships with outside agencies such as: public/private schools, city/county cultural facilities, nonprofit/for-profit agencies, and civic institutions. The community artist is "civically engaged" through partnerships in the understanding and celebration of cultural diversity, socioeconomic concerns, conflict resolution, celebration of past histories, current events that help shape individual communities, and hopes for a productive and sustainable future. These relationships promote a positive outlet for artistic expression, community dialogue, access to social services, reduction of negative behavior, and life-skill exercises in and through the arts. During a core group workshop, Tracy works closely with students and classroom teachers to discuss issues related to their community. The outcome of these shared experiences leads to a community mural and/or site-specific project that will encompass relationship building for all involved. This relationship building not only promotes a positive outlet for artistic expression but cross-cultural and community relations among students, classroom teachers, and community members at-large.
Tracy was raised in Japan, throughout Europe, and the United States. In the early 1990s, he emerged as a community artist primarily working on large-scale murals and socially engaged projects, which he has organized throughout the United States. Tracy is also an interdisciplinary artist, national teaching artist, and an award-winning cultural arts programmer; winning the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award in 2010. Tracy has collaborated and consulted with artist teams, schools, state, city and nonprofit arts organizations and correctional facilities throughout the United States. Tracy is a roster teaching artist for the state arts councils of Nevada, Utah, South Dakota, North Dakota, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Arkansas. He is also a roster teaching artist for Segerstrom Center for the Performing Arts in Costa Mesa and Lifetime Arts Inc. in New York.
Ages: K-Adult
Markus Tracy
phone: (702) 330.7623
email: markuswtracy@gmail.com
website:https://www.markustracy.com/