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Tracy Ferron

Founder and Board Chair, Life On Art

Tracy Ferron is Founder and Board President of Life On Art (LOA), a Northern California-based non-profit using artmaking as a tool for well-being and community resilience. Life On Art’s offerings combine community artmaking, creative arts therapies, social action, and large-scale public art exhibitions. Their customized programs further social and environmental justice movements and transform the world through love, creativity, and community building. Tracy’s passion for mental health and arts equity emerged from her experiences with her two severely mentally ill brothers, and her personal journey of transforming childhood trauma into purpose and social action through art. With LOA, Tracy developed a platform to create large-scale art installations through participatory and therapeutic community processes with populations facing systemic injustices. Life On Art offers these community services through its center in Sonoma County, in Petaluma, CA. Through the symbology of winged hearts and cages, Ferron’s artworks have illuminated incarcerated rights at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center (2020) and gender equity and voting rights at the Sacramento Women’s March (2020). Large-scale installations at the Museum of Sonoma County explored medical experimentation on children (2018), the murder of global activists (2019), and community celebration of loved ones for Día de los Muertos (2021, 2023, 2024). Tracy conceived and produced Unbound (2021-22), an 80-foot community made sculpture of hundreds of paper mâché winged hearts flying free from a cage in an innovative year-long partnership at one of California’s largest psychiatric facilities. This project brought art-making engagement to over 1500 people:–500 psychiatric patients, 200 staff and 800 community participants–creating a sense of belonging and uplift. Unbound was recognized nationally with a first place award for Arts for Innovation by the National Organization for Arts in Health in November 2022. Tracy co-produced Visions of Hope (2024), a multi-media installation featuring the art of nearly 200 men and women incarcerated in California state prisons. Life On Art continues to run its Heart Stories art workshops in men’s and women’s prisons in 2025. Tracy lives in Northern California with her husband and their three dogs and loves depth psychology and storytelling.

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