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Black Graphic Design History Collections Initiative: Traer Price

This is the Stanford Library Guide page to the Black Graphic Design History Collections Initiative

Traer Price

Traer is a designer committed to celebrating the power of visual expression to connect us with ourselves and each other. From private investigative drawings to large-scale public displays of water and light, she has experienced the homecoming of allowing her own inner landscape to be seen, both in the aliveness of her own heart and in the reflected connection in others’ eyes. Traer seeks to understand and champion the humanness that can be found in outward expressions of self, as well as the transformative experience of art-making. Traer creates through diverse mediums including jewelry and graphic design and has experience designing educational materials for informal learning environments like museums and aquariums, as well as vibrant choreographed fountain experiences in a number of cities internationally. She manages Traer Price Design, an online business branching into boutiques and museums, that is currently focused on her jewelry, but that she aspires to have become a vehicle for explorations of process and the ways we make meaning through creativity. www.traerprice.com [from https://www.byronfellowship.org/blog/2020/02/17/traer-price/]

Traer is a 1990 MFA graduate of Stanford. 

 

Traer Price design files, 1982-2021

Online Archive of California 

Artist's statement

"Making a path for thriving is what Black people do, continuously. Celebrating beauty is what Black people do, instinctively. A willingness to evolve and dive again below "what is", into "what can be" is what black people bring to this country. I am part of that tradition, I am of that flow. It moves through me as shape in metal, as shadow in grapite, as movement and emotion made visible in water."  Excerpt from From Colorism to Water Choreography: My Design Journey Inward, By Traer Price.