Gracie Novacek
2025
2024
2022-2023
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Gracie is an artist and food systems worker interested in seeing, writing, imagining, and quietude. They are a learner and love to listen, share stories, slow down, and be in relationship with the natural world and people. Their work revolves around building creative, lateral solutions to systemic issues. Previously, Gracie has a degree in biology with honors from the University of Washington and has worked in criminal justice & prison abolition, literary arts, publishing, mutual aid, food systems, public policy, and urban farming. Gracie is currently pursuing a death doula certification.
Gracie’s creative practice is centered around their interest in fantasy and grief, the body and physicality, and their big well of curiosity and warmth for other peoples creative feats. They work with clay, write poetry and host poetry workshops, and crochet and knit.
Gracie enjoys traveling alone, having solo travelled to 9 countries for 10 months on the Bonderman Fellowship in 2019. They enjoy visiting new places by enmeshing themself in the lives of their friends, family, or strangers that live there. They love hiking, cycling, learning languages, working with their body, being in the sun, listening to music, learning a new skill, the genres scifi and fantasy, and learning about permaculture and regenerative farming methods.
photo by tess graham