TRACEE PICKETT work / education / experience
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Silly Films: “because life isn’t the same without humor” A DAY FOR THE BIRDS MOTHER’S DAY THE ART OF BUSINESS THE ART OF IT CAN BEHTOVAN HEAR COLOUR CLASS SLIDE-SHOW Please Note: The title is just meant to be another way of looking at things and not literal. FORUMS On-line GUGGENHEIM 2011 GUGGENHEIM 2010 GUGGENHEIM 2009 DANA PRESS AUTISM
DANA PRESS MORE QUESTIONS
COLLABRATIVE CREATIVE WORK
7th BILLION PERSON PROJECT with YALE
THE JONNY CASH PROJECT
THE JONNY CASH PROJECT
NEW LIFE COPENHAGEN 2009 / YALE AND MANY OTHERS INCLUDING THE YES MEN CONTRIBUTED TO THE FESTIVAL FOR CHANGE / TRACEE AND COMPANY MADE A SMALL WRITTEN AND VISUAL CONTRIBUTION Titled: THE NEW MECCA with drawings and a complete written conceptual plan to rebuild the largest cities in the world using the perspectives of humanity issues at the forefront for change. AUTISM AND ART exhibition in 2006 COMMUNITY ESPIRIT exhibition 2006 GEHRY CHILDREN exhibition 2006 REMEMERANCE DESIGN WITHIN REACH PROGRAMS @ TRACEE AND COMPANY The Power of Positive Thought Through the Arts Character Building and Creativity
smART Programs 20,000 years of art
Art Basics for Children with Disabilities Rembrant, Miro, Caulder and More
Understanding the Golden Means
Spiritual Journey Through Art Activities
Pronounciation With Song and Story Boarding
Trust and Teamwork -Building a Strong Company
Leadership Through Individual Expression
Inspiration and Drawing
Drawing Basics
Portraiture and the Masters
CONSULTING / Some Assignments
Mack and Associates when formerly, the Choice for Staffing
http://www.mackltd.com/index.html
MSNBC
Dain Rouscher
Northwester University Hospital Evanston
Merck
Brambles USA
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STILL WORKING ON EDITS COMPLETION DATE MARCH 30th 2011
Lectures
Columbia College Chicago International Symposia
Silly Films
A DAY FOR THE BIRDS film@traceeandcompany
Pod Casts
“CAN BEETHOVEN HEAR COLOUR” LECTURE-INTERACTIVE @TRACEE AND COMPANY is an art education designed to change the Mind SILENT POD-CAST,photo credits / Katie Vandergriff:silent pod-cast
Published Forums
GUGGENHEIM / TRACEE PICKETT 2010
GUGGENHEIM 2009 / TRACEE PICKETT
Dana Press AUTISM By TRACEE PICKETT
Dana Press More Question By TRACEE PICKETT
Collabrative Work
NEW LIFE COPENHAGEN TOOK PLACE LAST YEAR 2009 / DURING THE MEETING IN COPENHAGEN WITH THE UNITED NATIONS / YALE AND MANY OTHERS INCLUDING THE YES MEN CONTRIBUTED TO THE FESTIVAL FOR CHANGE / TRACEE AND COMPANY MADE A SMALL WRITTEN AND VISUAL ARTS CONTRIBUTION / WHERE WILL WE LEAD THE WORLD IN 2099
Rememberance DESIGN WITHIN REACH HATS OFF ! HAITI NOT ALONE FILM
will be complete in january 2011
Informal Training in the Infrastructure of Business Employed with Mack and Associates when formerly, the Choice for Staffing
http://www.mackltd.com/index.html
Some companies consulted with before year 2000:
MSNBC
Dain Rouscher
the Merck (Chicago Stock Exchange ) tracking offices
Brambles USA / Chicago N. Mich. Ave. Group
Northwestern University Hospital in Evanston IL
Other Informal Education
Servayed SU business college course
Seminars: Chicago / NYC / Berkley / LA / More
Northwestern University /non-student /participating in arts circle events / and surveyed some lectures
North Texas University Conference / arts .. environment .. physics
NEW Orleans Conference on Scientific Design / Physics / Before the Storm 2003 I think …
Chicago Mayors Office Writing Forum (mayors office, people for disabilities
department)
ISEA CHICAGO / International Symposium on Electronic Art / with Lori Anderson
Berkeley Writers Forum (satellite seminar)
UCLA Film Forum (satellite seminar) with Sydney Pollack
Artist Seminar / The New York Foundation for the Arts / nyfa.org
THE GETTY MUSEUM / Artist / Educator Conference-
College Arts Association NYC / 2009 Los Angeles
Yale Symposium / School of Architecture / Spatial Illiteracy / 2009 w/ Robert A.M. Stern
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago artist / educator conference-
THE MODERN WING / College Arts Association NYC / 2010 Conference
Guggenheim Forum / Between the Over and Underdesigned-
2009 / with Aric Chen w..NY TIMES / published commentary
Guggenheim Forum / Beyond Material Worth-
2010 / with Peter G. Brown w..McGill Universtity / published commentary
NBC / Career Conference 2010 / NBC Studio’s Chicago- with the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
Awards
Everson Museum early creative arts award
Everson Museum early arts award II
Knoxville Museum of Art / civic / recognition of volunteerism
French Mac Open Honorary Award / award for personal achievement in the community
& and professional artistic achievement
Member:
Independent Lens
PUBLISHED under traceeandcompany
Sundance Insider
CAA
CAC
KMA GUILD
NYFA
Friends and Alumni of UT
CAAN -Columbia College Chicago Alumni and Friends
ALUMNI @ SAIC
Yale Member of:
Whitney Humanities Center at Yale
Writers at Yale and Beyond
Yale Environmental Health Group
Yale Women’s Center
Yale Sustainability
Published
DESIGN NOTES @ DWR
GUGGENHEIM FORUM / Beyond Material Worth SESSION I 2010 / commentary on-line GUGGENHEIM / / 50th anniversary of the GUGGENHEIM NYC / Comments Article “Questions About Autism” personal story- about tinnitus and it’s relationship to Autism / Comments Article “Autism” more questions about Autism - one photograph will be published among other artists photographs in Rebekah Modrak’s & Bill Anthes BOOK OCTOBER 2010 UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN / Routledge Press UK INDEPENDENT LENS l GRASS ROOTS ACTIVISM l PBS photograph by TRACEE PICKETT @TRACEEANDCOMPANY Vanderbilt Press / Breaking Ground Magazine sponsored by the Kennedy Center- written works- “Of Paupers and Princes” “Vanity Saved Me” Cover Art- “From Sea to Tea” / Black and White Image / the Cover of Breaking Ground Disabilities and the Entrepreneurial Spirit by Jon Kent / Vanderbilt Press Chicago Tribune Blurb & published photos of Bruce Graham’s Hancock Tower 2010 April 2010 most visited blog: derblauartist two times derblauartist Wall Street Journal Blurb / STATEMENT WOMEN ISSUES comment- at 11:24 pm by TRACEE PICKETT NEWS about the artist and programming created by the artist Chicago Reader 2002 September Publication / nine million reader circulation- exhibition of paintings and writings about “dream waters” Pioneer Press Winnetka IL 2002 “dream waters” The DiVinci Papers NEWSLETTER / article on creative art programs- “smArt programs” @ TRACEE and COMPANY Knoxville News Sentinal / Community Building Classes with the Arts- Numerious Publications about Programming Fountian City Focus / Many Publications- about Tracee and Company Fine Arts Programs Channel 8 TV w/ Stacey McCloud / Featuring Several Stories- on Tracee and Company Fine Arts Programming Channel 8 Television Appearance on Morning News w/ Stacey McCloud- Talking About the Importance of Fine Art Programming 2006 Book Unvailing and Exhibition of Visual Art “A Painter’s Poetry Book” 2005 @ Tippit Library Townsend Tennessee w/ Former Governor Sunquist and Mrs.Sunquist as the First Readers of the Newly Released Book The Tennessean / Nashville / Cover Photo of Tracee: Protesting Against People being cut from Federal Health Care Programs 2005 / sponsored by the State Wide Independent Living Center and the Nashville Legal Clinic / after all, as a society, we are only as good as we treat the less fortunate of our cities. Publication of Programming Funded by: Tennessee Arts Commission and the Arts and Cultural Alliance of Knoxville “have fun with everything under the sun” Publication on One of the Many Funded Programs- THE MONDAY FOUNDATION “the smArt program”@ the Divinci Papers - -interview with artist about arts and learning in the Community Demo Magazine Very Short Blurb about the Ferenza Figure Eight Chair- designed by
Independent Work-
Early Work / Independent / Design and Illustration
Assistant Teaching / Columbia College, Chicago
Assistant Teaching / the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Chair 3 yrs: The Clean Air Action Team-
Environmental Organization Smky Mt National Park
Chair 2 yrs: On-sight Coordinator / The National Earthday Festival-
for Smky Mt National Park sponsored by the Gateway Foundation
Chair 2 yrs: A State Independent Living Center / Knoxville TN-
working in issues of humanities
Chair 2 yrs: HeartSong Center Festival / Interactive Arts Tents-
bringing arts, craft demontratorsarts, activities to the down town Knoxville Arts Festival
Volunteer / Knoxville Museum of Art / Teaching Arts Workshops
Volunteer / Knoxville Museum of Art / Special Events
Volunteer / Knoxville Museum of Art / Curatorial Department-
“A World of Peace” exhibition of Tibetan Art and Making of the Sand Mondala
Volunteer / Knoxville Museum of Art / Alive after Five-
events keeping live music programs active in our communities
Volunteer / Knoxville Museum of Art / Family Day Festivals in the Museum
Demonstration Exhibition / A1 Arts in Cooperation with the Knoxville Museum of Art -
9/11 Visual Arts and Poetry Response in a Peace Effort
Vanderbilt University / Mega-Conference “interactive lecture on the art of business”
Columbia College / Art Lecture “Art Talk”
Evanston Symphony Orchestra / visual arts and music interactive with groups of 12 yr-
old students & exhibit showcased at Evanston Library
THE JONNY CASH PROJECT
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State Independent Living Center TN / interactive lecture-
“The Power of Positive Thought Through the Arts”
Philadelphia Elementary-Middle School / 3 yrs -
childrens arts interactive “smArt programs” @ TRACEE and COMPANY
Black Berry Farms / Great Masters Sessions / 2003-04
Tracee and Company
Assistant Editor of Scientific Paper for Approved Patent -
machine for treatment in brain cancer
Department of Rehabilitation / Lecture-Interactive / Making Fine Art
ETTAC.org / Independent Contract / 3yrs /”smArt” programs -
cave paintings to printmaking 20,000 years of art
ETTAC.org / Independent Contract / “SMART ART” / modern world of the arts
ETTAC.org TN / Independent Contract / arts interactive-
“art basics for children with disabilities” / from the studies of -
Rembrandt / Michelangelo / Caulder / Kandinski / and more
Fountian City Art Center / Independent Contract / Many Many Programs-
“smArt” programs / hundreds of subjects beginning with cave paintings-
to modern times
Fountain City Art Center / Independent Contract / Over 2 Years of Programming-
Adult Interactive-Portraiture / Working with a Live Model /
drawing on information from the great masters
Fountain City Art Center / Independent Contract / 3 Years of Programming-
Adult Interactive-Drawing Basics / classical European methods of learning
Sunshine Industries / Byzantine Empire Mosaics and the Actual Making of Mosaics
Sunshine Industries / Albrecht Durer and Print-Making
State Senate Conference / Speaker at Arts Day on the Hill-
in Nashville / representing better understanding of the importance of arts learning-
programs for all persons in the State of Tennessee / 2006- Current w/ active phone
calls to Senate Representitives on Valid Issues Which Need a Many Voices
Senate Meetings / Disability Day on the Hill in Nashville / participating in-
representation of issues on Disability and Aging 2009
Emerald Youth Foundation / Independent Contract / childrens-
Lecture-Interactives / “The Great Impressionists”
Visual Aids postcards from the edge
Lecture-Interactive Events in Private Settings / 2002-Current
Song and Story Boarding of Classical Musicals / for improved: communication /
conceptual thinking / spirit / pronounciation for children with disabilities /
individual expression / including children without disabilities
The Knoxville Museum of Art Film Series in conjunction with The University of
Tennessee / a short film for the purpose of educating about the arts creating better
communities/ including footage and music composed by the
artist, TRACEE PICKETT and a music composition by John Cage-
the film was created for educational purposes only- ,
Tracee Pickett 2007 Short Film Titled: “the art of it”
The Knoxville Museum of Art with The University of Tennessee / a short film produced
and directed by Tracee Pickett / 2008 Short Film Title: “the art of business”, created for a
conference @Vanderbilt University
artmesh innovations member 2008 - Current / invited member to contribute to planning
goals for artmesh / an international artist group based in Berlin, Germany
political exhibition / global symposium: January 20th 2009 / Refresh America
Symposium /
“Dear Mr. President” get involed
Columbia College Lecturer / International Symposium- Please Bare With Me as This i 2009 Lecture @ Columbia College Chicago that began in April and ended in April 2010. The week of april 22nd 2009 this Symposium went live through a live - streem at chicago’s well known Theatre Row and continued on-line throughout the next year. This is my first effort at a global symposium and is not in anyway a lecture -interactive. Great thanks to Columbia College chicago. and the clips (links) below will provide you with my full symposia work for Wealth and New Wealth. LINK: Wealth and Education in the US, Part One- Wealth and Education in the US, Part Two- Wealth and Education in the US, Part Three- To Get Free Quicktime Player: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/ Columbia College Face Book Featured
EXHIBITS
OVER 22 Years of Exhibitions
works held in corporate and private collections
NY / NYC / CHICAGO / TENNESSEE / LA / GERMANY / THAILAND
Design Within Reach Frencienza Champagne Chair
New Group Exhibition in COPENHAGEN
2009_____________________ YALE’s participation report: “ universities around the world participate in our workshop, and the reception was a real success with about 150 alumni, students, faculty, and friends.” A Fesival Organized for World Change: NEW LIFE COPENHAGEN based on world change / exhibition in conjunction with United Nations Meetings Schedule in
Copenhagen 2009 / where will world leaders lead to in 2099 / “a visionary response” artist TRACEE PICKETT contibuted a written concept of a livable city devoted to spiritual principles. Concideration of youth, aging, being active and engaged in a city and current societal issues shaped the ideas for change within TRACEE’s concept. A blue print of an erganomic and spiritual city was created for the presentation.
Designs DESIGN WITHIN REACH: the Frencienza Champagne Chair 2008 Finalist @ Design Within Reach Champagne Chair Contest 2009 National DWR Champagne Chair Exhibition / Manhattan to Honalulu 2009 More info: Linked-in Zoom Info XING INVITED MEMBER w/ University of Tennessee Sample a of the lecture-interactives @ TRACEE AND COMPANY Photo Credits: Katie Vandergriff / thanks Katie! Note about funded programming: Many of our Programs have been funded by public and private organizations to provide quality fine arts educations for all children and adults that sign-up. We have even assigned a certain number of seats to children that might not other wise be able to take the classes due to financial situations without challenging their information. Tracee and Company has also provided free classes to those with other special needs. It is of the utmost importance that all people have the access to arts learning programs- with the provisions of equality, with the arts, we build better communities for us all, no matter your difference. Tracee Pickett: specializes in individualized arts education programs. Teaching professionally in the arts since 1993, selling works since 1980. Tracee and Company: where fine arts programming and development of programs is inviting, fun and essential to life. Many levels of learning, for many needs: Educators, Coroprate Professionals, Youth Students, Adult Fine Art Students from all levels, as well as Other Groups. The Following are Some of the Topics of Tracee and Company’s Lecture-Interactives: Fine Arts Team Building Lecture-Interactives Fine Arts Youth Leadership Lecture-Interactives Fine Arts with Educators Lecture-Interactives Fine Arts Power of Positive Thought Lecture-Interactives Business Productivity w/ Humanity Through the Arts Lecture-Interactives For Specialized Lectures and Lecture- Interactives Events- If you manage a company or team of people and are interested in what tracee and company can do for a group of people no matter your sector- e-mail me @ the address below and we’ll send you an informational link and more. All starting with fine arts at TRACEE and COMPANY, as we sell works from the STUDIO and continue to create. “I have instructed in diverse places, in diverse ways, with a diversity of people along the way, learning a great deal. With the interaction, comes new and great experience and a wealth of new friends and new knowledge. “That is the world I value” E-mail:
