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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.

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.

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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Michele Thomas
- Dec 15, 2019
- 1 min read

A letter to Santa

Dear Santa – Here is AcuteByDesign’s Christmas wish list. We have been very good this year. We have given a number of new authors the opportunity to get their first books published. We have offered the public a wide variety of books, mostly for kids but some for adults, and some for young adults, such as Poor Pepe, which is aimed at middle readers through aduts. And speaking of Poor Pepe, we are particularly proud of that book, because we hope it will provide a bridge of understanding between Latinos who crossed the border and non-Latinos. We gave you a bit of publicity too, Santa, with The Boy Who Didn’t Believe in Santa, a follow-on to Heartfelt, the Special Reindeer, although it isn’t necessary to have read the first book in order to enjoy the second. So we have been good this year and submit with hope the following wish list of what we want for Christmas and beyond: ~ More emerging authors whom we will be the first publisher to discover ~ More great artists whose work we will be proud to include in our picture books and on the covers of all our books ~ More books that will rack up significant sales for their authors ~ A blockbuster book or two, to really make AcuteByDesign stand out And Santa, finally, but perhaps most important of all: ~ Peace on earth Thank you, Santa, from all of us here at AcuteByDesign

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