Tracy Lee

about Tracy

Tracy was born in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and raised in West Chester, a Philadelphia suburb. She later attendedCumberland Valley High School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Tracy is a graduate of Tyler School of Art, Temple University inPhiladelphia, with a BFA in Painting and Drawing. Stum studied abroad in Rome, Italy at the Tyler campus and later studiednaturalism in 2004 at the Florence Academy of Art.Stum began street painting in 1998 at the Santa Barbara 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.[2] 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.[1] 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.