is creative director and owner of treiC Designs. She has a Bachelor of Science degree from Woodbury University, with a major in Graphic Design and Marketing. Prior to becoming a full-time artist, Traci Bautista held jobs as a graphic designer, event planner, marketing director, professional cheerleader, elementary art history teacher, fashion designer, Web designer, and tradeshow manager – just to name a few. Experiences that she gained in these positions, coupled with her innate drive to explore and create without boundaries are what contribute to her growing success as a collage and mixed media artist.
Traci travels across the country and internationally to offer workshops on handmade artist’s books, art journals, mixed-media collage, and surface design. Traci creates vibrantly colored handmade journals, REVAMPED clothing, custom handbags and paintings that are layered with rich textures of stained papers, painted sewn fabric, “girlie glam” ink drawings and free style lettering. She designs, [k?L LäJ], an eclectic line of hand painted paper aRt! kits. Her artwork has been featured in Somerset Studio, Altered Couture, cloth.paper.scissors, Creative TECHniques, Belle Armoire and various books. She is a regular guest artist on HGTV & DIY Network Craft Lab. Traci is the author of, Collage Unleashed, and writes a column called Creativity Unleashed in Somerset Studio Magazine. To learn more about her artwork, events and daily musings visit www.treicdesigns.com or her blog [creativityUNLEASHED] http://kollaj.typepad.com.