Danielle Ariel Hill (b. 1997) is a Cleveland-born artist and arts manager based in Pasadena, CA. At the center of her work is interdependency, love, connection, and familial practices. The intersection of her practice blossoms through art exploring nature, spirituality, and interconnectedness evoking awareness of the present state of being. She believes the immersed human connection of the instinctive & natural world is medicine to understanding the communal circumstance.
Inspired by human connection with the natural and instinctive, Hill captures film photography of mountains and people absorbed in their experience with the natural world and ways of being leading to oil paintings and multi-disciplinary art installations. The practice asks people to observe their surroundings through an unconscious state to deepen their connection and answer + articulate questions of present-day humanity.
She collaborates with collectives and organizations that prioritize and invest in the thriving of Black artists while abstaining from colonial practices. She is also an advocate for arts education and non-traditional, accessible, learning, advocacy, and elevation communities.
She received a Master of Arts in Arts Management degree from Sotheby’s Institute of Art at Claremont Graduate University in 2020 and a Bachelor of Arts in Arts Management and Entrepreneurship from Baldwin Wallace University in 2019. She was a recipient of the CREO Individual Artist Grant (2023) and Black Artist Foundry Grant (2022). Her essay The Fire in Time: Black Women Leading Arts Institutions was published in Et Al: New Voices in Arts Management in the Illinois University Library along with her digital art (2022). She is currently the Exhibition Manager at Armory Center for the Arts and serves as a City of Pasadena District 3 Arts & Culture Commissioner in Pasadena, CA.
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