Artist Bio
Stacey Fox is an award-winning producer, master percussionist, composer, animator, filmmaker, astrophotographer and Arts educator. She has collaborated as Senior Educational Design Technology Adviser and Lead Artist on projects for the Smithsonian Institution, as well as traveling as an artist ambassador representing the United States at the invitation of the U.S. Department of State through their Performing Arts initiative. Fox is a member of The Recording Academy, American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and Association Internationale du Film d’Animation (ASIFA-Hollywood).
Her creative and educational projects have been funded by American Composers Forum, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Arts International, Doris Duke Charitable Trust, Fulbright-Hays, Gates Foundation, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Kauffman Foundation, The Walt Disney Company, Knight Foundation, NYFA, NYSCA, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Kennedy Centers Partners in Education, Institution Museum Library Science (IMLS), Rockefeller Foundation, Target Foundation, Smithsonian Institution and the U.S. Department of State.
Her works have been created for - and experienced - in numerous venues, including Belarus Philharmonic, National Museum of the American Indian, Cincinnati Symphony & Pops Orchestras, Omaha Nation Pow Wow Celebration, Lewis and Clark Bicentennial, Sundance Channel, Second Life, Open Sim, St. Marks Church-NYC, Smithsonian Latino Virtual Museum, American Dance Festival, Gifu Performing Arts Center-Japan, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Southwest Dance Festival, National Museum of Natural History, National Museum of Dance, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Tang Museum, Skopje Summer Festival – Macedonia, Olympolis Arts Festival Greece.
As a classically trained musician and long time practitioner of Qigong and Wudan Sword form, her live performances around the globe have been noted for being "fierce, intense, spiritual and powerful." She also researches the impact indigenous rhythmic and vocal patterns/frequencies have on the creative and healing processes, as well as sound and its impact on the environment of Earth and outer space.
She is currently Wizard-in-Residence and Wizard of Digital Programs for the School of Journalism at Michigan State University where she directs the Animation & Comics Storytelling in Media Minor, Motion Capture Research, Scoring for Moving Pictures, Music of the Earth's Biomes and is affiliated faculty with the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism.