Tracy Lee Stum
Los Angeles, California

A professional artist with over 15 years of experience, Tracy Lee Stum received her BFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia after studying painting and drawing in Italy. Tracy has been involved in numerous street painting festivals for several years and in the summer of 1999, representing California, competed with over 240 artists from around the world in the prestigious XXVII Centro Italiano Madonnari Street Painting Festival in Grazie di Curtatone, Italy where she and fellow artist Charlene Lanzel were awarded a prize of excellence and distinguished work for their street mural. She has been selected as a feature artist at the Bella Via Festival in Valencia, California and the I Giovanni del Arte Festival in San Rafael, California. Tracy resides in Los Angeles and recent projects have included designing and creating custom 18th century trompe l'oeil murals for the Venetian Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

Artist Talk by Tracy Lee Stum
4:15 p.m. Wednesday, September 11
Room 152, Bucksbaum Center for the Arts

Below are examples of Tracy's work in chalk pastel on pavement from previous street painting festivals.

David Loewenstein
Lawrence, Kansas

A professional muralist and community organizer, David Loewenstein may be best known by Grinnell area residents for his direction of the mural Eclipse, co-designed and painted by Grinnell students and residents. David has painted over 18 public murals and mosaics in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, and Northern Ireland. One of his mosaics can be seen at the entrance of Cafe Phoenix, Grinnell. Previous work includes a joint mural project through which students in a rural Missouri town worked with New York City students. He was also selected by the National Endowment for the Arts and National Arts Councils of Ireland and Northern Ireland to bring Catholic and Protestant students together to create a mural in Strabane, Northern Ireland. David Loewenstein, BA Grinnell College and MFA Purdue University, is a frequent artist in residence in schools and was awarded the Lighton Prize for Artist Educator of the Year by Young Audiences, Kansas City, MO in 2001. He has participated in Kansas City's La Strada dell' Arte Street Painting Festival every year since 1998.

Below are examples of David's work in chalk pastel on pavement and Grinnell's Eclipse mural.