Tracy Rector
Tracy Rector (born 1972) is a is a mixed race Choctaw/Seminole filmmaker, curator, and arts advocate based in Seattle, Washington.[1] She is the executive director and co-founder of Longhouse Media, an indigenous media arts organization and home of the nationally acclaimed program Native Lens. She has worked as an education consultant at the Seattle Art Museum, as a Native Naturalist for the Olympic Sculpture Park, and has developed curriculum for IslandWood, an environmental education center.
She currently serves as a Seattle Arts Commissioner[2] and is the 2017 curator of the Seattle Theatre Group’s Re:definition Gallery.[3]
Career
Tracy Rector earned her BA in Native American Studies and Communications from Evergreen State College and her Masters in Education and Teacher Certification from Antioch University’s First Peoples Program.[4] Her focus was collaborative media and identity exploration with at-risk Native youth.[5] Her first feature project, Teachings of the Tree People: The Work of Bruce Miller, brought oral tradition into a contemporary storytelling format while also identifying how Coast Salish communities wanted to be involved in the filmmaking process.[6] Her second feature-length film was the documentary March Point, a collaboration with Longhouse Media co-founder Annie Silverstein and three young Swinomish filmmakers. This environmental documentary received an All Roads Film Project Seed Grant and was recognized by UNESCO as an example of indigenous grassroots mobilization in response to climate change.[4] Rector's work has been screened at the Cannes Film Festival, imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, National Geographic’s All Roads Film Project, Toronto International Film Festival, the Seattle Art Museum and in the Smithsonian’s Museum of the American Indian, and has been nationally broadcast on the PBS film series Independent Lens.[3][7]
Rector has served as a curriculum advisor for the Seattle Art Museum, assisting in planning for the museum’s expanded Native American wing and the international exhibition S'abadeb—The Gifts: Pacific Coast Salish Art and Artists. She has also worked as a Native Naturalist for the Olympic Sculpture Park and developed curriculum for IslandWood, an environmental education center.[8][9] She is the Executive Director and Co-founder of Longhouse Media, an indigenous media arts organization and home of the nationally-acclaimed program Native Lens.
Selected Filmography
As Producer
- Teachings of the Tree People (2006)
- Giving Thanks (2007)
- March Point (2008)
- Canoe Pulling: A Lummi Way of Life (2008)
- Bunky Echo Hawk: Profile of a Proactive Artist (2009)
- Louie Gong: Unreserved (2010)
- Dos Almas (2013)
- Ronnie BoDean (2015)
- Maiden of Deception Pass: Guardian of Her Samish People (2015)
- The Middle Kingdom (2017)
As Director
- Teachings of the Tree People (2006)
- Giving Thanks (2007)
- March Point (2008)
- Bunky Echo Hawk: Profile of a Proactive Artist (2009)
- Louie Gong: Unreserved (2010)
- Maiden of Deception Pass: Guardian of Her Samish People (2015)
Awards and Honors
- 2008: Horace Mann Award[10]
- 2009: National Association for Media Literacy for outstanding contributions made in the field of media education[11]
- 2011: Sundance Institute Lab Fellow[5]
- 2016: The Stranger Genius Award[12]
External Links
Tracy Rector - IMDB
Meet 2016 Stranger Genius Award Nominee Tracy Rector
References
- ^ http://www.longhousemedia.org/about.html
- ^ "Seattle Arts Commission - Arts | seattle.gov". www.seattle.gov. Retrieved 2017-04-28.
- ^ a b "STG Presents - Re:definition". www.stgpresents.org. Retrieved 2017-04-28.
- ^ a b "Tracy Rector | National Museum of the American Indian". filmcatalog.nmai.si.edu. Retrieved 2017-04-28.
- ^ a b "Sundance Institute Announces 2011 NativeLab Fellows, Expands Workshops & Screenings for Indigenous Artists". www.sundance.org. Retrieved 2017-04-28.
- ^ http://www.visionmakermedia.org/bios/tracy-rector
- ^ "The Advocate: Tracy Rector". City Arts. 2014-12-24. Retrieved 2017-04-28.
- ^ "Contemporary Indigenous Cinema". www.siff.net. Retrieved 2017-04-28.
- ^ "Contemporary Indigenous Realities". sokrat.ffos.hr. Retrieved 2017-04-28.
- ^ "Antioch Seattle's Horace Mann Awards March 27". Antioch.edu. Retrieved 2017-04-28.
- ^ Directors, NAMLE Board of (2009-09-23). "Media Literate Media Awards: 2000-2009". National Association for Media Literacy Education. Retrieved 2017-04-28.
- ^ "Tracy Rector". The Stranger. Retrieved 2017-04-28.
