About the Artist
Stephanie Horne (b. 2001, Chapel Hill, NC) is an artist who currently lives and works in Boone, NC. As she confronts challenges in life and gains firsthand experience as a young adult, her work continues to develop. She is primarily a portraitist, but explores other subject matter on occasion.
Stephanie showed signs of natural artistic talent by drawing and painting throughout childhood. She did exceptionally well in all of her art classes while she was in school. One of her high school pieces was selected to be displayed at the North Carolina Museum of Art for the Teens, Inspired show in 2019.
She went on to Central Carolina Community College to earn her Associate degree after graduating from high school with honors. At Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, Stephanie is pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in studio art. She helps her dad around the house by designing and fabricating parts for various things when she isn't attending university.
During her spare time, Horne competes in the heaviest motorsport in the world; Tractor Pulling. She occasionally has the chance to design images and logos for the pulling vehicles of other pullers.
Tractor Pulling
Tractor Pulling is known as “the world’s heaviest motorsport.” The goal of tractor pulling is to determine the strongest machine and the best driver. Different to every other motorsport in the world, it is not about the speed, but distance pulled. The pulling track is a minimum of 30 feet wide by 320 feet long.
In 2005, Stephanie’s dad built a modified pulling tractor and began pulling across North Carolina. As the years passed, Stephanie showed interest in the motorsport and began driving the modified tractor at the age of 15.
In 2020 Stephanie and her dad drove to Wisconsin to pick up a mini rod pulling tractor. Now they have two pulling tractors that they take across North Carolina, Tennessee and South Carolina.
