Michael Bracey Biography
Award-winning Chicago based photographer Michael Bracey has received rave recognition for his lectures and exhibitions in the United States and abroad. His accomplishments include the CAAAP Portfolio of the Year Award (2001), a Chicago Arts Assistant Council grant (2004), a Hutchinson Arts Association Council grant (2004), and the Illinois Arts Council Fellowship (2003) for Africans Within the Americas, a ten-year project of travel to twelve different countries documenting commonalities among people of African descent, which resulted in a traveling exhibition and a book.
Bracey's contributions to The Journey: The Next 100 Years, an exhibition and book created and published by the Chicago Alliance of African-American Photographers (CAAAP) in conjunction with Roosevelt University Press, the Chicago History Museum, and the Chicago Tribune, catapulted him into the book publishing world.
His books are Urban Waters, People-Places-Peru, The Black Christ Festival of Portobello (Panama), Ten Days in Morocco, It's All About the Hats, and Ten Days in Guatemala- all self-published. His latest book, Rivers of Women is co-authored with Shirley LeFlore and published by 2LeafPress.org. Bracey holds a BA in communications from Webster (College) University, St. Louis, and an MA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Columbia College Chicago.
Bracey’s contributions to The Journey: The Next 100 Years, an exhibition and book created and published by the Chicago Alliance of African-American Photographers (CAAAP) in conjunction with Roosevelt University Press, the Chicago History Museum, and the Chicago Tribune, catapulted him into the book publishing world.
His books are Urban Waters, People-Places-Peru, The Black Christ Festival of Portobello (Panama), Ten Days in Morocco, It’s All About the Hats, and Ten Days in Guatemala- all self-published. His latest book, Rivers of Women is co-authored with Shirley LeFlore and published by 2LeafPress.org. Bracey holds a BA in communications from Webster (College) University, St. Louis, and an MA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Columbia College Chicago.