Many of the works in the Trace series were created as part of the body of print monotypes created for Tributary. However, these works specifically reference the summer of 2019 when Maciuba was an artist in residence at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska City. Maciuba arrived in Nebraska to find that she had again come to an area in the aftermath of historic levels of flooding. The Missouri River had flooded its banks in the spring of 2019, and the water had yet to recede in many of the areas she had planned to visit. Due to the flooded state of many of the parks and preserves as well as the fact that the closest bridge across the Missouri River was closed due to the flooding, Maciuba’s research needed to adjust in the moment. She spent the majority of the residency driving between different flooded locations as well as unexpectedly expanding her geographic research up the Platte River. These prints share some of the flooded farm fields and wetlands she witnessed during her time in Nebraska in 2019, and they consider how human manipulation of the Missouri and climate change has altered the Great Plains and will continue to change it moving forward.