Tracy Lee Stum
Encyclopedia
"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
, India
and
Europe
. She currently holds a Guinness World Record for the Largest Chalk
Painting by an Individual.
, 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.
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.
Stum creates masterful interactive street paintings using chalk and tempera
paint,
usually with 1 to 2 assistants. 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. Stum often creates organic images free-hand
on site, working only from a rough sketch. 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.
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
.
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, which she currently holds.
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 School of Art, Kolkata
.
In 2010, Stum created a large 3d chalk wall mural commemorating past US Hall of Fame
Winter Olympic athletes, at the USA House in Vancouver, BC for the 2010 Winter Olympic games. 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
.
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
.
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.
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.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
best known for her spectacular/large interactive
3d street paintings or chalk
Chalk
Chalk is a soft, white, porous sedimentary rock, a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite. Calcite is calcium carbonate or CaCO3. It forms under reasonably deep marine conditions from the gradual accumulation of minute calcite plates shed from micro-organisms called coccolithophores....
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
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
, Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
and
Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
. She currently holds a Guinness World Record for the Largest Chalk
Painting by an Individual.
Education
Tracy was born in Chambersburg, PennsylvaniaChambersburg, Pennsylvania
Chambersburg is a borough in the South Central region of Pennsylvania, United States. It is miles north of Maryland and the Mason-Dixon line and southwest of Harrisburg in the Cumberland Valley, which is part of the Great Appalachian Valley. Chambersburg is the county seat of Franklin County...
, and raised in West Chester
West Chester, Pennsylvania
The Borough of West Chester is the county seat of Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 18,461 at the 2010 census.Valley Forge, the Brandywine Battlefield, Longwood Gardens, Marsh Creek State Park, and other historical attractions are near West Chester...
, a
Philadelphia suburb. She later attended Cumberland Valley High School
Cumberland Valley High School
Cumberland Valley High School is a coeducational public high school located within Cumberland Valley School District in Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. The school was founded in 1954. The mascot is an eagle....
in Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Carlisle is a borough in and the county seat of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States. The name is traditionally pronounced with emphasis on the second syllable. Carlisle is located within the Cumberland Valley, a highly productive agricultural region. As of the 2010 census, the borough...
.
Tracy is a graduate of Tyler School of Art
Tyler School of Art
The Stella Elkins Tyler School of Art, usually just referred to as Tyler School of Art is Temple University's school of art, which confers BFA and MFA degrees. The school was originally founded by sculptors Stella Elkins Tyler and Boris Blai on a separate 14-acre estate in Elkins Park...
, Temple University
Temple University
Temple University is a comprehensive public research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Originally founded in 1884 by Dr. Russell Conwell, Temple University is among the nation's largest providers of professional education and prepares the largest body of professional...
in Philadelphia, with a BFA
Bachelor of Fine Arts
In the United States and Canada, the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, usually abbreviated BFA, is the standard undergraduate degree for students seeking a professional education in the visual or performing arts. In some countries such a degree is called a Bachelor of Creative Arts or BCA...
in Painting
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
and Drawing
Drawing
Drawing is a form of visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels, markers, styluses, and various metals .An artist who...
. Stum studied abroad in Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
at the Tyler campus and
later studied naturalism in 2004 at the Florence Academy of Art.
Practice
Using the anamorphic projection technique, which employs visual distortion, Stumcreates 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.
Stum creates masterful interactive street paintings using chalk and tempera
Tempera
Tempera, also known as egg tempera, is a permanent fast-drying painting medium consisting of colored pigment mixed with a water-soluble binder medium . Tempera also refers to the paintings done in this medium. Tempera paintings are very long lasting, and examples from the 1st centuries AD still exist...
paint,
usually with 1 to 2 assistants. Her intelligent and contemporary interactive designs
incorporate complex geometric devices along with references to contemporary and
historic culture, art
Art
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
, pop iconography, metaphoric and allegorical symbolism
Symbolism (arts)
Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts. In literature, the style had its beginnings with the publication Les Fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire...
.
Stum does not use computer assisted programs to design her works; her images are
hand-drawn using perspective geometry. Stum often creates organic images free-hand
on site, working only from a rough sketch. 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 BarbaraSanta Barbara, California
Santa Barbara is the county seat of Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Situated on an east-west trending section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Coast of the United States, the city lies between the steeply-rising Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean...
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
San Rafael, California
San Rafael is a city and the county seat of Marin County, California, United States. The city is located in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area...
, to art direct a recreation
of Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni , commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art...
's Sistine Chapel
Sistine Chapel
Sistine Chapel is the best-known chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the Pope in Vatican City. It is famous for its architecture and its decoration that was frescoed throughout by Renaissance artists including Michelangelo, Sandro Botticelli, Pietro Perugino, Pinturicchio...
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
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
.
In 2006, Stum was selected to create a reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance...
's The Last Supper for Sony Entertainment, which won a Guinness World Record for The
Largest Chalk Painting by an Individual, which she currently holds.
From 2007 to 2009 Stum served as artistic director of festival Bella Via in Monterey, Mexico, which included a second reproduction of Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni , commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art...
's Sistine Chapel
Sistine Chapel
Sistine Chapel is the best-known chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the Pope in Vatican City. It is famous for its architecture and its decoration that was frescoed throughout by Renaissance artists including Michelangelo, Sandro Botticelli, Pietro Perugino, Pinturicchio...
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
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
in 2008 and 2009 under the sponsorship of the American Center
American Center
The American Center is a high-rise tower in the Metro Detroit suburb of Southfield, Michigan. It was built in 1975 and stands at 26 stories, with one basement level, for a total of 27 floors....
at the US Consulate General in New Delhi, India, teaching 3d street painting
Street painting
Street painting, also commonly known as pavement art, chalk art, and sidewalk art, is the performance art of rendering original and non-original artistic designs on pavement such as streets, sidewalks, and town squares with impermanent and semi-permanent materials such as chalk.-Origin:Street...
workshops at IIT Mumbai
Mumbai
Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...
, IIT Kanpur, the Habitat Center, New Delhi
New Delhi
New Delhi is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi. It is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is...
; Government
College of Art & Stella Maris College of Art, Chennai
Chennai
Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...
; University of Art, Hyderabad; and
the Government School of Art, Kolkata
Kolkata
Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...
.
In 2010, Stum created a large 3d chalk wall mural commemorating past US Hall of Fame
Hall of Fame
A hall of fame, wall of fame, walk of fame, walk of stars or avenue of stars is a type of attraction established for any field of endeavor to honor individuals of noteworthy achievement in that field...
Winter Olympic athletes, at the USA House in Vancouver, BC for the 2010 Winter Olympic games. This mural
Mural
A mural is any piece of artwork painted or applied directly on a wall, ceiling or other large permanent surface. A particularly distinguishing characteristic of mural painting is that the architectural elements of the given space are harmoniously incorporated into the picture.-History:Murals of...
was signed by attending Olympic
Olympic Games
The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...
Hall of Fame
Hall of Fame
A hall of fame, wall of fame, walk of fame, walk of stars or avenue of stars is a type of attraction established for any field of endeavor to honor individuals of noteworthy achievement in that field...
athletes
Picabo Street
Picabo Street
Picabo Street is a retired American alpine ski racer. She won gold medals in super G at the 1998 Winter Olympics and in downhill at 1996 World Championships, along with three other Olympic and World Championship medals. She also won World Cup downhill season titles in 1995 and 1996, the first...
, Dan Jansen
Dan Jansen
Daniel Erwin Jansen is a former speed skater, best known for winning a gold medal in his final Olympic race after suffering through years of heartbreak. He graduated from West Allis Central High School....
, Peggy Fleming
Peggy Fleming
Peggy Gail Fleming is an American figure skater. She is the 1968 Olympic Champion in Ladies' singles and a three-time World Champion...
, Scott Hamilton
Scott Hamilton (figure skater)
Scott Scovell Hamilton is an American figure skater and Olympic gold medalist. He won four consecutive U.S. championships , four consecutive World Championships and a gold medal in the 1984 Olympics....
& Jim Craig.
Her street painting projects have been commissioned throughout the US, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
,
China
China
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
, Curacao
Curaçao
Curaçao is an island in the southern Caribbean Sea, off the Venezuelan coast. The Country of Curaçao , which includes the main island plus the small, uninhabited island of Klein Curaçao , is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
, the Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
, Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
, South Korea
South Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
and Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
.
Other media / Philanthropy
Stum has contributed her masterful street paintingStreet painting
Street painting, also commonly known as pavement art, chalk art, and sidewalk art, is the performance art of rendering original and non-original artistic designs on pavement such as streets, sidewalks, and town squares with impermanent and semi-permanent materials such as chalk.-Origin:Street...
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
Panama City
Panama is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Panama. It has a population of 880,691, with a total metro population of 1,272,672, and it is located at the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal, in the province of the same name. The city is the political and administrative center of the...
, Youth Arts Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...
, Con Arte, Dutch Dream,
International Children's Festival, Children's Museum (La Habra), Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts
Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts
The Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts is held each year in State College, Pennsylvania and on the campus of Pennsylvania State University. Penn State students commonly refer to the event as Arts Fest.-History:...
and the Getty Center
Getty Center
The Getty Center, in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, is a campus for cultural institutions founded by oilman J. Paul Getty. The $1.3 billion center, which opened on December 16, 1997, is also well known for its architecture, gardens, and views overlooking Los Angeles...
.
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
PR Week
PRWeek is a weekly trade magazine for the public relations industry.PRWeek also produces research into the size and shape of the UK public relations industry including the annual ranking of Top 150 PR consultancies and Salary Survey as well as surveys into industry-relevant issues such as staff...
, American Lifestyle Magazine, Hindustan Times
Hindustan Times
Hindustan Times is an Indian English-language daily newspaper founded in 1924 with roots in the Indian independence movement of the period ....
, Hong Kong Daily Apple, El Norte
El Norte
The Spanish phrase El Norte may refer to any of the following places or things:* El Norte , a 1983 motion picture directed by Gregory Nava.* El Norte , a Mexican daily newspaper, published in the state of Nuevo Léon....
, & the San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle
thumb|right|upright|The Chronicle Building following the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake|1906 earthquake]] and fireThe San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California, but distributed throughout Northern and Central California,...
.
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.
Stum's works have been featured in 'Acid Bath Shellac' a 2005 documentary by
filmmaker Jacob K. Cunningham, ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
Good Morning America
Good Morning America
Good Morning America is an American morning news and talk show that is broadcast on the ABC television network; it debuted on November 3, 1975. The weekday program airs for two hours; a third hour aired between 2007 and 2008 exclusively on ABC News Now...
, BBC documentary
'King of the Strip' by Simon Dickson.