Tracy Rector Explained

Tracy Rector
Occupation:Film Director, Film Producer, Curator
Alma Mater:Evergreen State College
Children:2

Tracy Rector (born 1972) is an American filmmaker, curator, and arts advocate based in Seattle, Washington.[1] She is the executive director and co-founder of Longhouse Media, an Indigenous and POC 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 served as a Seattle Arts Commissioner[2] and was 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 master's degree in education and teacher certification from Antioch University’s First Peoples Program. Her focus was collaborative media and identity exploration with at-risk Native youth.[4] 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.[5] 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.[6] 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.[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 in Bainbridge Island, Washington.[8] [9] Rector has 2 sons, Chai and Solomon.

Selected filmography

As producer

As director

Awards and honors

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Longhouse Media & Native Lens . longhousemedia.org . 6 June 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100702054102/http://longhousemedia.org/about.html . 2 July 2010 . dead.
  2. Web site: Seattle Arts Commission - Arts seattle.gov. www.seattle.gov. en. 2017-04-28.
  3. Web site: STG Presents - Re:definition. www.stgpresents.org. en. 2017-04-28.
  4. Web site: Sundance Institute Announces 2011 NativeLab Fellows, Expands Workshops & Screenings for Indigenous Artists. www.sundance.org. 2017-04-28.
  5. Web site: Tracy Rector | Vision Maker Media . 2017-04-28 . 2017-05-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170502212517/http://www.visionmakermedia.org/bios/tracy-rector . dead .
  6. Web site: Tracy Rector National Museum of the American Indian. filmcatalog.nmai.si.edu. 2017-04-28.
  7. News: The Advocate: Tracy Rector. https://web.archive.org/web/20150106111754/http://cityartsonline.com/articles/advocate-tracy-rector. usurped. January 6, 2015. 2014-12-24. City Arts. 2017-04-28. en.
  8. Web site: Contemporary Indigenous Cinema. www.siff.net. en. 2017-04-28.
  9. Web site: Contemporary Indigenous Realities. sokrat.ffos.hr. 2017-04-28.
  10. News: Antioch Seattle's Horace Mann Awards March 27. Antioch.edu. 2017-04-28. en.
  11. Web site: March Point ITVS. itvs.org. en. 2017-05-01.
  12. Web site: Media Literate Media Awards: 2000-2009. Directors. NAMLE Board of. 2009-09-23. National Association for Media Literacy Education. 2017-04-28.
  13. News: Tracy Rector. Tribeca Film Institute. 2017-05-01. en.
  14. Web site: 2016 Award Winners. imagineNATIVE Film & Media Arts Festival. en-US. 2017-05-01.
  15. News: Tracy Rector. The Stranger. 2017-04-28. en.
  16. News: Firelight Media Launches Impact Producer Fellowship & Names Inaugural Honorees. 2017-03-21. Women and Hollywood. 2017-05-01.

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