Artwork copyright Tracy Poindexter-Canton. Photo courtesy of the artist, 2023.

Although Rooted in Mud, Lotus became her HOME, 2022

Tracy Poindexter-Canton
(American, born 1980)

Location: Eastern State Hospital, Medical Lake

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Department of Social and Health Services.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Tracy Poindexter-Canton is a mixed media artist in Spokane, Eastern Washington. Through collage, vibrancy, and portraiture, she examines Black American identity while blending literary imagery with visual art. She uses a wide variety of materials – including acrylic paints, oil pastels, ink, feathers, beads, magazine clippings, bubble wrap, scrapbook paper, nylon cord, and found objects. She credits her late grandmother with developing her creativity: “Grandma Alma kept a cardboard box for me under the chair in her hallway broom closet filled with ribbons, buttons, knickknacks, and other commonly-discarded scraps, which I used to create all sorts of arts and craftsy things. The possibilities were infinite!”
Poindexter-Canton earned an undergraduate degree in English and Creative Writing from Seattle University and a master's degree in Communications and Leadership from Gonzaga University in Spokane. She has studied art via classes in mixed media, acrylic paints, and graphite pencil, to name a few. Her art has been exhibited in Spokane and through Onyx Fine Arts Collective exhibitions.