Art is what brings me back home.
Items from the earth, from tiny hands gifted back. The scent of coffee and fire, the familiar pull of thread through my fingers. Picture writing- stories told and shared with shapes.
Danyelle Woods is an artist, mother, and educator who lives and creates in Chattanooga, Tennessee with her husband, Luke, and their three sons. She is a lover of and believer in all things soft and gentle and hopes to create a safe space within her work for others to step in from the cold to the same. Danyelle’s work is a combination of known and unknown forms, created with organic materials made by the earth.
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EXPERIENCE
2022 - Present Dalewood Middle School, Chattanooga, TN Visual Art Teacher, 6-8th grade
2024 - 2025 Tennessee Craft, Nashville, TN MAAP Award Recipient and Apprenticeship Participant
2024 Hamilton County Department of Education, Chattanooga, TN Summer REACH Creative Coordinator
2016 - 2019 Chattanooga Market, Chattanooga, TN Market Vendor and Demonstrating Artist
2016 Academia de Danza Sabik, Cartago, Costa Rica Arts Education Facilitator and Drawing Session Instructor
2014 Hope of Life International, Zacapa, Guatemala Outreach Participant and Mural Artist
2014 Operation Mobilization, Bobbio Pellice, Italy Residency Participant and Exhibiting Artist
2013 - 2014 Woodland Park Baptist Church, Chattanooga, TN ONEWorship Visual Art 1-2 & 3-4 Instructor
2013 - 2014 Chattanooga Workspace, Chattanooga, TN Private Art Lesson Instructor
2010 - 2018 Cost Plus World Market, Chattanooga, TN Store Supervisor & Display Coordinator
2008 - 2010 Agape Art Academy, Hobby Lobby, Chattanooga, TN Summer Program Drawing Fundamentals Teacher
EDUCATION
2023 University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Chattanooga, TN Master’s of Education, Licensure Track
2012 Belhaven University, Jackson, MS B.A.A. in Art (Summa Cum Laude)
2011 Instituto Galileo Galilei, Florence, Italy Summer Participant in Art and Cultural Studies Program
2010- 2011 University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN Undergraduate Participant in Painting and Drawing Program
AWARDS AND CERTIFICATIONS
2024 Tennessee Craft, Nashville, TN MAAP Award Recipient and Apprenticeship Participant
2022 Tennessee Department of Education, Nashville, TN Professional Teaching License with Visual Arts K-12 Endorsement
2016 Teflen Training College, Levittown, NY TEFL-TESOL Certification
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025 Flora & Fauna CHA Art Space, Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport, Chattanooga, TN
The Color Yellow The Association for Visual Arts, Chattanooga, TN
2024-2025 Honey, I Shrunk the Art Gallery Chimera, Atlanta, GA
Keep a Place for Me Stoveworks, Chattanooga, TN
2022 How Are We Doing? A Pandemic Retrospective The Association for Visual Arts, Chattanooga, TN
2014 Permanent Exhibition: Communion Forterocca, Bobbio Pellice, Italy
International Art Exhibition Dogana Reale, Bobbio Pellice, Italy
International Music and Dance Showcase Teatro del Forte, Bobbio Pellice, Italy
2013 Duo Show: Danyelle/Donyale- The Art of Danyelle Dover and Donyale Groves Chattanooga Workspace, Chattanooga, TN
Women Painting Women (R)Evolution Juried Exhibition Townsend Atelier, Chattanooga, TN
2012 The Collective: Belhaven Senior Exhibition Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
2009-2012 Juried Student Art Exhibition Belhaven University, Jackson, MS
2008 Juried Student Showcase Raymond James Financial, Inc., Chattanooga, TN
PUBLIC ART
2014 Hope of Life International, Llano Verde, Guatemala Children’s Hospital Murals, Conference Center Murals
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