Tracy Jonsson-Laboy is an interdicsiplinary artist using craft as resistance. Her practice includes artistic research, practice-based research, multiple mediums including writing, storytelling, craft textile and woodworking techniques, as well as new media, music, and sound design.

Always expanding horizons and working towards amassing all the skills necessary for community building and vibrant humanism, Jonsson-Laboy has as a current goal to reach food and fiber sovereignty through planning, design, architecture and “slöjd” embracing her family lineage of survival and adventure.  In her current line of exploration she’s embraced permaculture as a strategy, joy and craft as alternative modes of reality-making, and models of repair as thematic research projects.

Jonsson-Laboy has a master’s degree in Historic Preservation from Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island, and a art and culture degree in craft, design and sustainability from Hemslöjden i Östergötland.