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About Danielle

Danielle Dewees is an artist and designer living near Bennet, Nebraska. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Art with an emphasis in graphic design from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in 2014. Danielle makes artwork in her in-home studio. Her medium of choice is relief printmaking, though she has also worked in digital art, graphite, and watercolor.

 

Her work explores the wildlife of the Great Plains. From an early age, Danielle would try to imagine what the landscape around her in south-central Nebraska looked like before the roads, towns, farmsteads, and fences. As an adult, she seeks out environments that show little to no impact from industrialization, and she finds creative inspiration by exploring and interacting with these environments. She aims to inspire viewers to investigate the subjects of her work and discover a deeper appreciation for the natural world and particularly Midwest wildlife. Her current work focuses on the North American Bison–once a prominent figure in the Great Plains, now absent from the natural landscape and confined to feedlots and parks.

 

In a competition coordinated by the Nebraska Arts Council in 2020, Danielle's design was selected as Nebraska's first Support the Arts license plate. Danielle has had solo exhibitions in the Nebraska Governor's Mansion (2024), Pioneers Park Nature Center (2023), and the Morton James Public Library (2022). She is particularly proud of having prints juried into the 2024 Visions of the Flint Hills, 2022 Surface Impressions, 2021 Nebraska Artist Biennial, the Norfolk Art Center’s 14th and 15th Annual Juried Art Exhibitions, and the 2021 Mid America Print Council Member Juried Show. In 2019, one of her relief prints was selected for the BFF Banner Art Project and displayed in the Benson Neighborhood in Omaha. Danielle has received several awards at local shows, including one James Ray Award, three People’s Choice Awards, two Reserve Champions, three Merit Awards, one Best of Division, one Reserve Best of Division, and one Honorable Mention. She has participated in the Nebraska Arts Council's 2024 Statewide Arts Conference, the 2021 Southeast Nebraska Artist Inc. Express, The Business of Art Conference in 2021 hosted by Octagon Arts Center, and the Mid America Print Council 2020 Biennial Conference. 

Upcoming Shows

Vision of the Flint Hills

October 1 - December 22, 2024 - Buttonwood Art Space, Kansas City, MO

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