Listen to hear how Tracy has transformed personal trauma to help others. How she is using art for healing, for connection and to raise awareness about social justice issues to affect change.

Tracy Ferron is the Founder and Executive Director of Life on Earth Art, a California-based non-profit organization working to heal trauma and division in our society by fusing community art-making, art therapy, and activism with touring large-scale art experiences.  LOEA offers transformative healing work to schools, social service organizations, public and correctional institutions, partnering with other non-profits. Ferron’s work illuminates social injustices which beg for awareness, compassion and action.  Her large winged heart artworks have graced protests for incarcerated rights at San Quentin Prison and the Women’s March in Sacramento, CA.  Her museum installations have explored medical experimentation (2018), the murder of global activists (2019), and community artmaking celebrating loved ones lost for Día de los Muertos (2021). Tracy conceived of and produced Unbound (2021-22), an 80-foot community made sculpture of hundreds of paper mâché winged hearts flying free from a cage in an innovative year-long partnership with 70 therapists at one of California’s largest psychiatric facilities. This project brought art-making engagement to over 500 psychiatric patients, 200 staff and 800 community participants–creating a sense of belonging and uplift.  Unbound was recognized with a first place award for Arts for Innovation by the National Organization for Arts in Health in November 2022. Tracy received her Master’s Degree in Engaged Humanities at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She has presented at Burning Man (2014), the Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies (2017), Google Headquarters (2018), the Northern California Art Therapy Association (2020) and Pacifica Graduate Institute (2021). For more information, see https://lifeonearthart.org or contact Tracy at tracy@lifeonearthart.org. 

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