"Every child is an artist.
​The problem is how to remain an artist
​once we grow up.”
​- Pablo Picasso


​Tracy began directing and collaborating with other artists when she was 7 years old.  Tracy would go outside her house and call loudly to the neighborhood kids to come and play. 

​It was a different time.  Living on a street with many kids who would come sit in her yard and do whatever Tracy said, started her career as a teacher-director-artist and collaborator. 

Growing up she made movies with friends, mostly to make each other laugh, but doing so by taking themselves as seriously as possible. ​​
Fast forward to graduating with Honors in Theatre Performance from San Diego State University, Tracy studied abroad in Vladivostok, Russia.  She went on to work with a diverse group of artists, creating and then touring a show with the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa at the National Arts Festival.  This formative time was where Tracy discovered her love of all cultures and traveling. ​
Once back in the Bay Area, Tracy toured with The Theatre of All Possibilities, Kaiser's Educational Theatre Programs, and eventually taught drama and art with San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, WCCUSD Drama Program, Civic Arts and the Fine Arts Preschool in Walnut Creek, ArtReach, and as Director of Theatre at College Park High School. 
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Tracy continued her education in Early Childhood Development where she became pivotally inspired by the Reggio Emila philosophy, Attachment Theory, and entranced with Waldorf education. 
Tracy went on to teach workshops at Los Medanos College and Diablo Valley College in how teachers could access students through drama and storytelling to create ensembles that worked together as well as address children's emotional needs and curiosity. 

Tracy was a founding member of the Bay Area Children's Theatre (formerly Active Arts) with a purpose to dream, play and create! ​
Tracy's truest teachers have been her three children:  Matthew, Luna Rose, and Milo.  Deciding to homeschool her children in 2010, Tracy's goal has been to focus on what an education can be, instead of what we don't want for our children.  This simple shift from focusing on what you don't want, but what you do, and learning to take steps to making the life and opportunities you want led Tracy to continue teaching out of her home art studio. ​
Tracy's greatest collaborators have been her children and her extended children, all of her amazing students. 

Tracy learned from her mentors Margaret Larlham, Lisa Taft, and her Mom Diana, how to observe where people are at, what they want, and to clearly see their potential.  Learning how to harness each student's unique creativity and enable the energy possible to create original works of art is Tracy's greatest reward. 

Tracy bases all her classes off her children, her own interests, her students, and what seems interesting to pursue Season to Season, knowing that to stay fresh as a teacher, the teacher must be excited! Tracy sacrifices re-teaching the same original curriculum created for classes in order to give birth to new ideas and be challenged.  ​
Today Tracy is ready to walk hand in hand with her students and take over, spreading art, living stories, creative writing, and beautiful things that make us laugh and feel for all who need to find it. 

​Tracy hopes to reach broader audiences with We Make the World Magazine, The Rabid Children Podcast, Movie Makers, and Young Authors Press which publishes student work in anthologies and novels. Tracy believes that taking her students seriously and supporting them to make their ideas come to life will communicate her deep belief in young people. She believes in everyone's ability to take charge of themselves and our world and to know that you don't need someone else to give permission to your creative pursuits. ​

​The only person who can make your ideas happen is you and you are the greatest person to share your story.