Tracy Lee Stum

Tracy Lee Stum
Born Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Website http://www.tracyleestum.com/

Tracy Lee Stum is an American artist best known for her spectacular/large interactive 3D street paintings or chalk drawings. An internationally respected talent, Stum is recognized as the leading female street painter in the world today. Her imaginative 3D Street Paintings and murals have been commissioned by corporations, advertising agencies, arts organizations, educational institutes and government agencies throughout the North America, Asia, and Europe. She at one point held the Guinness World Record for the Largest Chalk Painting by an Individual.[1]

Education

Tracy was born in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and raised in West Chester, a Philadelphia suburb. She later attended Cumberland Valley High School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Tracy is a graduate of Tyler School of Art, Temple University in Philadelphia, with a BFA in Painting and Drawing. Stum studied abroad in Rome, Italy at the Tyler campus and later studied naturalism in 2004 at the Florence Academy of Art.[2]

Practice

Using the anamorphic projection technique, which employs visual distortion, Stum creates 2d drawings which appear in 3d when viewed from a fixed point through a lens. These 3d images are designed for the camera lens and appear to have correct perspective when photographed from the designated viewing point.[3] Stum creates masterful interactive street paintings using chalk and tempera paint, usually with 1 to 2 assistants.[3] Her intelligent and contemporary interactive designs incorporate complex geometric devices along with references to contemporary and historic culture, art, pop iconography, metaphoric and allegorical symbolism. Stum does not use computer assisted programs to design her works; her images are hand-drawn using perspective geometry.[3] Stum often creates organic images free-hand on site, working only from a rough sketch.[3] Stum may also alter or change an image throughout the drawing process, preferring to work intuitively. Stum's talents excel with large images – recent works have been sized 6 meters x 14 meters and 6 meters x 21 meters.

Career

Stum began street painting in 1998 at the Santa Barbara Madonnari Festival, the first established and longest running street painting festival created in the US. In 2003, Stum was selected by Youth in Arts of San Rafael, California, to art direct a recreation of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling in chalk at the 10th Annual Youth in Arts Street Painting Festival. This was the first recorded festival organized reproduction of this image in North America.[2] In 2006, Stum was selected to create a reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper for Sony Entertainment, which won a Guinness World Record for The Largest Chalk Painting by an Individual, though she no longer holds the record.[1] From 2007 to 2009 Stum served as artistic director of festival Bella Via in Monterey, Mexico, which included a second reproduction of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling in 2007. She served as a member of the jury board for this competition based festival from 2005 to 2009. Stum traveled to India in 2008 and 2009 under the sponsorship of the American Center at the US Consulate General in New Delhi, India, teaching 3d street painting workshops at IIT Mumbai, IIT Kanpur, the Habitat Center, New Delhi; Government College of Art & Stella Maris College of Art, Chennai; University of Art, Hyderabad; and the Government College of Art & Craft, Kolkata.[2] In 2010, Stum created a large 3d chalk wall mural commemorating past US Hall of Fame Winter Olympic athletes, at the United States House in Vancouver, BC for the 2010 Winter Olympic games.[4] This mural was signed by attending Olympic Hall of Fame athletes Picabo Street, Dan Jansen, Peggy Fleming, Scott Hamilton & Jim Craig. Her street painting projects have been commissioned throughout the US, Canada, China, Curacao, France, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Singapore, South Korea and Spain.[2]

Other media / Philanthropy

Stum has contributed her masterful street painting work to non-profit and charity events around the world for over 13 years including Children's Creative Project, Youth in Arts, Visual Arts Center of Panama City, Youth Arts Hong Kong, Con Arte, Dutch Dream, International Children's Festival, Children's Museum (La Habra), Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts and the Getty Center. Stum's work has been seen in blog posts, TV, film and print articles world wide, including the New York Times, the Boston Globe, PR Week, American Lifestyle Magazine, Hindustan Times, Hong Kong Daily Apple, El Norte, & the San Francisco Chronicle.[5] She has been featured in ‘3d Street Art’ by Birgit Krols, and ‘Be Happy At Work: 100 Women Who Love Their Jobs, and Why’ by Joanne Gordon.[5] Stum's works have been featured in 'Acid Bath Shellac' a 2005 documentary by filmmaker Jacob K. Cunningham, ABC Good Morning America, BBC documentary 'King of the Strip' by Simon Dickson.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/Search/Details/Largest-chalk-painting-by-one-artist/64079.htm
  2. 1 2 3 4 http://www.tracyleestum.com/about/about-tracy
  3. 1 2 3 4 http://www.tracyleestum.com/qa/q-a
  4. ↑ https://www.luciolepress.com/Tracy_L.html
  5. 1 2 3 http://www.tracyleestum.com/about/awardsfilmpublications
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