TRACY TIDGWELL

Tracy is the Producer and Project Manager for Hemispheric Encounters: Developing Transborder Research-Creation Practices in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design at York University. For the Queer Summer Institute, she coordinated the Hemispheric Encounters cohort that came to the QSI from across the Americas.

Tracy is the creator of Anywhere Near Us, a collection of audio performances of queer texts; co-creator of The Pentacular, a field sized, pentacle-shaped terra art form and walking path for engaging and healing puritanical and colonial ways of being; co-lead of Performing Archives: The Practice of Gathering Residency, an exploration of unruly approaches to archives and the possibilities inherent in live exchange; co-creator of the Fat Liberation Peoples History, a community oral history project; and co-editor of The Future is Fat, a book collection of scholarly and artistic interventions that reimagine understandings of time to allow for new expressions of fat experience.

Her work, both collaborative and solo, has been presented across Canada and the US in such spaces as the Institute for Curatorial Inquiry at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, MIX NYC, The Witch Institute, Acadia University Art Gallery, Mayworks Festival of Working People, and NoMorePotlucks.

 Alongside her work in the arts, Tracy is an editor, producer, and consultant dedicated to community-led accessible media and event production. She’s worked with diverse projects and organizations including Tangled Arts + Disability Gallery, Bodies in Translation, and The Feminist Art Residency.