DANIELLE GALLIETTI

Danielle Galietti is a visual artist and USFSA gold medal figure skater and dancer - an interdisciplinary artist investigating our interdependence on one another and our environment.She explores the intersection between a movement practice and visual art.

She works with the documentation of movement patterns and translations, somatic printmaking and inquiries into limitations of the body within the boundaries of a given space.

She received her MFA (2012) in Studio Art at the University of CA Davis and a BA (2010) in Modern/Contemporary Art History at the of Delaware. Danielle is an active artist in the Imaginary Collective, and performs internationally alongside musicians, poets, singers, etc underthe moniker The Bull and Arrow. Danielle was a live performer in a work by Linda Mary Montana for “Who’s Afraid of the New Now' at the NewMuseum (NYC) as well as a live performer for Jillian Mayer’s POP RALLY at PS1 MoMA (NYC). Since 2018 she was awarded Artist Residencies at The Studios at MassMoCA (USA), Vermont Studio Center(USA), OPEN AIR Missoula(USA), The Chateau Orquevaux(France), NES (Iceland), ARTAK350 (Iceland), and Listhus (Iceland).

Some of her work has been acquired for private collections and recently she had a performance video purchased and featured on Iceland’s TourismBoard for the northern town of Ólafsfjör›ur. In January of 2020 she premiered “Can You Hear Yourself Close Your Eyes” in Akureyri, the second largest city in Iceland.

Her experiential work was recently activated through the creation of large-scale contour line drawings made in the fresh-fallen snow at Natural Bridge State Park, using only what was available: body, energy, and snow. Expanding on her work with the public access station and regional studio artists, Danielle envisions further strengthening her local connections to offer public workshops that respond to the distinct needs of the North Adams community.

“I am interested in working with creative and non-creative community members and disadvantaged populations to help share the joy and healing powers that art making and creativity can offer.