Tracie is a visual and performing artist and has been throughout the country and overseas working in the arts. She currently lives in New York City and is originally from the small town of Wintersville, Ohio near the border of the state, which she describes as Steeler Country.
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She is a Congressional Arts Caucus Award recipient, and had one of her paintings displayed in the US Capitol Building as part of a one-year collection. She is a graduate of Chatham University, where she studied Arts Management with a concentration in Visual Art and Art History. She is also a veteran of the United States Navy, where she was a mechanic on the flight line based in Northern Japan.
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Her professional visual art credits include murals and décor for many restaurants throughout the country including in Rainforest Cafés, Landry’s, Joes Crab Shack, and along the Keemah Boardwalk near Galveston, Texas. She has been part of the team at Spaeth Design, where she helped create and build the Christmas windows for Macy’s in New York City as well as those for Lord & Taylor and Saks Fifth Avenue. She also worked for the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission helping to restore artifacts for the museums of Pennsylvania. As a performer she has appeared on television and the silver screen as well tours entertaining the troops overseas in Korea, Kuwait and Iraq.
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Our Vision, Mission and Philosophy
Vision
To provide an opportunity to all creatives who wish to reach the world with high-quality, diverse, and socially relevant books.
Mission
AcuteByDesign wants to publish high-quality, diverse, multicultural, and socially relevant books so that the gift of literature can touch readers of all races, cultures, and religions.
We want our writers and illustrators to empower girls and boys as equals in their abilities to dream and achieve as they have imagined.
Our books and illustrations should inspire readers, children, and adults from struggling communities and world countries to dream bigger than their circumstances. While inspiring empathy in the affluent that we are in a connected world, we must all be a part of its solution.
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