About the Artist

Tracy Casagrande Clancy is an artist working in mixed media specializing in encaustic painting and sculpture, photography and collage. Her award-winning work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions throughout North America, Australia, and Europe, and is held in private, corporate, and public collections. She is also represented in the permanent collection of the Museum of Encaustic Art in Santa Fe.

Casagrande Clancy holds both graduate and undergraduate degrees in Psychology, Social Work, Sociology and Fine Art, with concentrations in Pediatric and Family Grief Studies and Photography. Before returning to working as a full-time artist 16+ years ago, she worked as a grief therapist supporting children and their families experiencing profound loss. Her areas of specialization included Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care and Trauma, HIV/AIDS, community disaster relief and homelessness.

These experiences deeply inform her artistic practice and have shaped her enduring belief in human interconnectedness and interdependence. Tracy’s exploration of this universal bond emerges through recurring iconography of shelter, anatomy and the human figure in its many forms. Casagrande Clancy teaches encaustic and mixed-media workshops online (globally) and in-person (nationally and internationally) and works from her 8th floor studio at the Pendleton Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.

ARTIST STATEMENT
Drawing inspiration from my experience as a pediatric and family grief therapist, my practice centers around the belief that an unbreakable thread that connects all of existence. Through my art, I offer visual representation of this infinite thread that binds us across communities, cultures and continents. It is through this web of connection and interdependence that we transform, dismantle walls and borders, and build bridges across even the widest chasms.

These connections can leave us profoundly and indelibly changed—personally, societally, socially, globally and universally. My aim is to spark a celebration of our inescapable interconnectedness and to invite viewers to reflect on their relationship to humanity, nature, and beyond. In this examination, we recognize the Divine (whatever name you ascribe to it) in ourselves and in one another. By honoring this connection and interdependence, we also become aware of what we offer and what we receive.
My hope is that we then do so with care and love.

May we move through the world as vessels of love and awareness of our sacred interconnectedness.