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Name

Tracy Rector

Heritage

Choctaw

Seminole

mixed race

Gender

female

Dates

Lifespan

1972-

Specialty / Medium

filmmaking

directing (motion picture film)

short film

documentary film

teaching

External Remarks

Artist's file in Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives, Heard Museum.

"Tracy Rector is a mixed race (Choctaw/Seminole) filmmaker, curator, community organizer, co-founder of Longhouse Media and a 2016 Stranger Genius. She has made over 400 short films, and is currently in production of her fifth feature documentary. As co-producer of the award-winning film Teachings of the Tree People, producer of March Point, co-director of Clearwater, and director of Ch'aak' S'aagi; Rector has developed an awareness and sensitivity to the power of media and film as a modern storytelling tool. Her work has been featured on Independent Lens, Cannes Film Festival, ImagineNative, National Geographic’, Toronto International Film Festival, the Seattle Art Museum and in the Smithsonian’s Museum of the American Indian"--Biographical sketch for Tracy Rector in the Longhouse Media website at source URL: https://www.longhousemedia.org/about-us/ (viewed September 22, 2018)

Artist’s physical folder is filed alphabetically in the Native American Artists Resource Collection under the following name:

Rector, Tracy

Exhibits

Double Exposure: Edward S. Curtis, Marianne Nicolson, Tracy Rector, Will Wilson. Seattle Art Museum. Seattle, Washington. June 14, 2018 - September 9, 2018. Note: organized by the Seattle Art Museum in partnership with the New York Public Library; exhibition advisor includes Asia Tail (Cherokee Nation) among others.

Publications

Found 7 record(s)

Citation	Pages	Publication Date	Artist Citation Notes	Website
Fricke, Suzanne Newman. "The Perils of Exhibiting Contemporary Native American Art with Edward Curtis". First American Art Magazine, issue no. 20 (fall 2018). 2018.	96-97	2018	Featured artists includes Larry McNeil, Theresa Harlan, Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie, Will Wilson, Zig Jackson, Wendy Red Star, Marianne Nicolson, Tracy Rector, and Matika Wilbur.
IMDb contributors. "Tracy Rector: Producer \| Director \| Camera and Electrical Department". In: IMDb (host URL: https://www.imdb.com/) at source URL: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2482506/. 2018.		2018	Tracy Rector's entry in the Internet Movie Database (viewed September 22, 2018)	View
Kazmi, Laila and Tracy Rector. "A Conversation With Filmmaker and Activist Tracy Rector: Tracy Rector Discusses Co-directing Her REEL NW Film 'Maiden of Deception Pass'". In: Reel NW, KCTS9 website (host URL: ) at source URL: https://kcts9.org/reel-nw/director-megan-griffiths-in-conversation-filmmaker-and-activist-tracy-rector. 2016.		2016	Tracy Rector interview posted September 29, 2016 on the Reel NW, KCTS9 website (viewed September 22, 2018); duration 3:05 minutes.	View
Rector, Tracy. "Meet Tracy Rector". In: YouTube (host URL: https://www.youtube.com/) at source URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dLQ6KJgaxk. 2017.		2017	Tracy Rector on YouTube (viewed September 22, 2018); published by Audience Awards on January 12, 2017. Duration: 10:18 minutes. "Tracy Rector is a Choctaw/Seminole filmmaker, curator, community organizer, and Executive Director and Co-founder of Longhouse Media." Includes biography.	View
Rector, Tracy. "Tracy Rector’s Clearwater". In: Vimeo (host URL: https://vimeo.com/) at source URL: https://vimeo.com/167800602. 2016.		2016	Tracy Rector's film "Clearwater" published May 23, 2016 by Crosscut on Vimeo (viewed September 22, 2018); duration: 9:19 minutes.	View
Seattle Art Museum. "Double Exposure, Jun 14 - Sep 9 2018, Seattle Art Museum". In: Seattle Art Museum website (host URL: http://seattleartmuseum.org/) at source URL: http://doubleexposure.site.seattleartmuseum.org/. 2018.		2018	Information on the exhibition featuring Edward S. Curtis, Marianne Nicolson, Tracy Rector, and Will Wilson, held June 14, 2018-September 9, 2018 at the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington.	View
Wikipedia contributors. "Tracy Rector". In: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia (host URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/) at source URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy_Rector. 2017.		2017	Current entry for Tracy Rector in Wikipedia (viewed September 22, 2018)	View

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