Culture Initiative

Since moving to 12 years ago I have put most of my creative energy into nurturing community and building experiences. This journey has brought me through many great communities and allowed me to continue my mission of making a creative impact. But as I have grown I have realized that there are limits in which we can achieve were our pace is lessoned by how much we are trying to balance. 2017 has been a year of self reflection and setting new goals and I'm happy to announce the next chapter as Joel Tracey Creative. Putting my past efforts on the shelf and pushing forward as a solo creative studio offering up and to everyone that has supported Culture Initiative over the years.. maybe there will be a sequel one day but for now it's onto being a friend, creative, and artist. Much love always! - Joel @ Charlotte, North Carolina

It was a dream of creating something new and unique for our city, a passion shared with my good friend . It evolved as did we and I felt it important to keep the flame alive as our professional careers forked. and helped carry the torch farther but ultimately the labor of love is a commitment hard to balance with life. Last year we shelved the project for the foreseeable future but as we all know passion is hard to turn off. I'm not sure what ci is or if it will become again, but for now I do know that I will never let culture go. Logo design in 2008 and still holds 8.5 years later. Fulfill the why and the result is timeless.

Craving this milk bread from today! Joe & Katie Kindred are our next guest on and you can see it at our screening party: Feb. 12th 2017
Free Range Brewing
Doors at 12
Social hour at 1
Episode viewing 2pm (really 2:15-2:30)

So I've had the pleasure of meeting many awesome people while helping out at the .. including these incredible souls and . Love these peeps. Here they're modeling one of my

Congrats to for making it to for the first time!! Totally deserving. This is a shot from when we were marketing the tee back in November 2016. My first opportunity to photograph

Illustration portrait my buddy did of me for a guest dj mix spot on his show. 2012. Man time flies. So much love ❤

After several attempts over several games I was able to catch a strong picture of at last nights game.

Took the 85mm 1.2 out for a sunset shoot with the homie .. going to have a lot of fun with this lens for sure.

Hello new friend, I look forward to seeing the world with you. 😍

Eagle mirror I worked up for the Better Than Christmas this year. Decided to do a full illustrative study in 2017 of eagles. Should be fun.

Digging through pics from a recent trip and came across this gem of .. thinking I need to make another jump down yondah

Excited about the next screening with Feb. 12th 2017
Free Range Brewing
Doors at 12
Social hour at 1
Episode viewing 2pm (really 2:15-2:30)