About the Artist:
D. Lammie-Hanson, a Harlem native, began her professional artistic journey in 1990. Notably, she exhibited at the UN Geneva Palais des Nations in Switzerland, addressing homelessness. In 2007, she earned the title of Artist of the Year at BAM DanceAfrica in Brooklyn.
Over the past decade, Lammie-Hanson has focused on metalpoint art, showcasing at Scope during Art Basel Miami; GW Carver Interpretive Museum, and Wiregrass Museum of Art in Alabama. Her work has also been displayed at prestigious institutions like the New Orleans African American Museum, Ashe Cultural Arts Center, McKenna Museum of African American Art, Arts New Orleans (formerly the Arts Council of New Orleans), and Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans.
In 2018, twenty-five of her artworks, including twenty-two silverpoint drawings, were published in the New Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper and later in a book for the city's Tricentennial. In 2019, she portrayed iconic musicians during the Essence Music Festival's 25th anniversary as part of Arts New Orleans Salon V2 residency.
Based in Chicago, Lammie-Hanson was accepted into the Hyde Park Arts Center's “Center Program” in 2021, culminating in the group show, “Dreams.” Her drawing “Dear Beautiful Black Boy” entered the permanent collection at the Hilliard Art Museum located at the Louisiana University in Lafayette, LA in 2022, making her their first living artist. In the same year, she joined Little Black Pearl's artist-in-residence program, creating one of the world’s largest masterpieces in silverpoint, "Dared to Be Black and Shining," which debuted at the Chicago Art Dept in January 2023.
In 2024, her goldpoint piece "Exhilaration" from the Indigo Seven series was included in the three-month exhibit “Personal Structures” at the 60th Venice Biennale in Venice, Italy. Continuing her metalpoint exploration, she introduces "Gilded Agility," a new collection within the Indigo Seven series, debuting in June 2024 at the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago, focusing on the movement of ballet and modern dancers.