Tracy Ostmann Haschke

3343 West Carroll Avenue

Chicago, IL 60624

773-805-1368

                                                            Artists Biography

Artist Tracy Ostmann-Haschke is a native of rural Missouri.  She attributes her development as an artist to being raised in a family of craftsmen and women artisans. Two grandfathers were wood workers creating grandfather clocks and furniture while both grandmother and great grandmother were ceramic artists and painters.  When the last of her inspiring relatives had passed when she was 17 Tracy had inherited her grandmother’s oil paints. It was at that time she made her first oil painting.  She went on to obtain her BFA in painting and drawing from Webster University in St. Louis Missouri then proceeded to Chicago where she received a Post Baccalaureate certificate from The Art Institute of Chicago.  In 1998 Tracy began a decorative painting business. This allowed her to earn a living while she continued to focus on her paintings. Her work is a sort of diary in that it tends to parallel events in her personal life. Tracy works and resides in Garfield Park with her husband Paul, daughter Morgan and son Beckman.