DANIELLE SMITH

Bio

Danielle Smith is a self-taught, emerging, fiber and textile artist, with an environmental science education background. Danielle uses art as a mechanism to engage communities in conversations around the impacts of climate change, loss of biodiversity, and the importance of connecting people to nature. Danielle’s primary medium is wool. By bonding and shrinking the fibers together, the wool is manipulated using felting techniques to produce 2D felt paintings or 3D wool sculptures.  “The work I produce is not only functional but has color, texture, and tactile qualities”. Using traditional and innovative techniques, Danielle shows the diversity and variety of tactile qualities felt making can produce, pushing boundaries both artistically and socially with her work.