Visual Art – Phoenix
Danielle Fisher was born in Berks County, Pennsylvania, but remembers her first clay experience at age 6 when her parents moved to Arizona. In first grade her art teacher gave a shy new student a piece of cool, wet, red clay under a metal pavilion in the hot sun. The clay comforted young Danielle: remembering back at the warm sun shining on her cool wet clay and the way it felt, in that moment she knew she was an artist.
Throughout school and college Danielle was known for her talent and received several awards and accolades. She pursued her college education diligently and accepted a degree in Art Education, Art Therapy, Religious Studies and Ceramics. Danielle worked for 20 years with emotionally and developmentally challenged adults developing an after school therapeutic day program called MudPuppies. She also created a full mobile clay program for nursing homes. Danielle also created an concept called “wheel and wine.” Adults over the age of 21 and of any ability could gather for a potluck BYOB celebration and make a pot on Danielle’s pottery wheel with her assistance. The pots were decorated at the wheel and wine and returned to the artists after kiln firing.
Danielle, her husband Chris who is also an artist, and her two boys executed a full mud revolution in Boyertown, Pennsylvania from 2009 to 2012 with their community gallery and studio Clayote. After three years, the Fisher family took their experience to the next level where Danielle now produces art full time and includes a few specialty workshops. She participates in local and national art shows and you may catch her performing covers and originals with her band Rubus at openings or your local Cafe. Dani has loved to sing from a young age and has been playing harmonica for several years. Dani specializing in acrylic paintings, raku stoneware, utilitarian and sculptural pottery, children’s books multimedia shadowboxes and installations, murals, mosaics and community events.