Tracee Johnson

MFA Public Practice, Otis College of Art and Design 2014

BA in Landscape Architecture, University of Maryland 2007

Tracee is originally from Upstate New York, but has lived in Baltimore Maryland the past 5 years.  She graduated from the University of Maryland in 2007 with a degree in landscape architecture. She worked for several years as a landscape designer for college campuses and urban sites. Most recently, she has worked as an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland at a satellite campus in Monteverde, Costa Rica. Tracee is passionate about travel and exploring relationships between humans and the built environment. She is interested in implementing sustainable design practices through art, innovation and public space.

Tracee Johnson ‘14 has an art practice that connects learning to the natural environment; her playful BrightGreenCar operates as a chalkboard surface for LA residents’ comments. She teaches in the Architecture/Interiors/Landscape department at Otis. Both artists have thriving practices focused on public space, inspired by architecture, landscape design, and photography.

After graduating from the MFA Public Practice program, Nicola Goode '14 and Tracee founded Little House Gallery, a thriving space for experimentation as well as an occasional private residence for artists. Located in a 1907 Venice Beach bungalow at the junction of a commercial and residential district, it remains virtually unchanged and bears witness to an iconic California neighborhood’s shifting cultural and economic history.

Little House Gallery recognizes the home as a site of autonomy, innovation and imagination. The collaborators encourage artists, performers and thinkers to embrace diverse perspectives and platforms to further engage creativity, activism and pedagogy. They invite proposals that challenge both the notions of a gallery and the preconceived forms and functions of a domestic space.

Updated Spring 2017