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Trayc Claybrook began her career as a partner in Reel FX Creative Studios in 1996. She has an extensive background in painting, printmaking, book making, graphic design, film/video and the visual effects industries. She has won many awards for her paintings and films including the “Northern Arts Council 14th Annual National Show” Donor Award, awarded by accomplished painter-Ed Pasche and a 2007 Bronze Remi Award from the Worlfest film festival in Houston, TX. Currently, she is a professor in the Digital Filmmaking & Video Production, BFA program at the Art Institute of Dallas. Trayc earned a BFA in painting/printmaking from The Kansas City Art Institute in 1991, an AA in Computer Animation from The Art Institute of Dallas in 1995, and an MFA in Painting and Graphic Design from Texas Woman's University in 2004. She is currently working on a PhD in Aesthetics, Art and Technology from the University of Texas @ Dallas.

My work (film, painting, sculpture, bookmaking) is a mixture of textures, patterns, images, and text. Each of these elements functions as a symbol or hieroglyphic that come together to tell a story; part of a story.  The viewer is invited to enter the work on their own terms and to create their own story based on the enculturation and experiences of their own life.  Something familiar is running about! It may good it may be bad.