D. Lammie-Hanson, a self-taught visual artist from Harlem, currently based in Chicago, embarked on her professional artistic journey in 1990. One of her early notable achievements includes exhibiting a painting at the UN Geneva Palais des Nations in Switzerland to address homelessness in the 1990s. From 1998 to 2007, Lammie-Hanson co-founded the nonprofit artist group South of the Navy Yard Artists (SONYA) to support and empower Brooklyn-based artists, organizing studio tours. In recognition of her community work, she was honored as Artist of the Year at BAM DanceAfrica in 2007 and received a proclamation from the Brooklyn Borough President.Over the next decade from 2007-2017, Lammie-Hanson's artistic focus has been on her metalpoint artwork, with prominent series such as "Barna Black," "Dared to Be," and "The Indigo Seven Series," which features 14K and 24K gold on indigo substrates. Her metalpoint work is also a central element of her "Divinity in the Blue'' painting series. She has exhibited at Scope during Art Basel Miami, the GW Carver Interpretive Museum, and the Wiregrass Museum of Art in Alabama, where she won the “Juror’s Choice” award for her “Beyond the Brown Paper Bag Test” series, her painting “A Lady of Many Crowns,” and the “Best of Show” for her Barna Black Silverpoint series, including the silverpoint drawing “A Portrait of His Beautiful Blackness.” Her work has also been displayed at prestigious institutions like the New Orleans African American Museum, Ashe Cultural Arts Center, McKenna Museum of African American Art, Arts New Orleans (formerly the Arts Council of New Orleans), Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans.In 2018, twenty-five of her artworks, including twenty-two silverpoint drawings, were published in the New Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper celebrating New Orleans Tricentennial and then later the artwork was published in the book 300 for 300 to commemorate the tricentennial. In 2019, she portrayed iconic musicians during the Essence Music Festival's 25th anniversary as part of Arts New Orleans Salon V2 residency. Artists like Erykah Badu, Janet Jackson, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross and Aretha Franklin to name a few who have graced the stage at the Essence Fest. Based in Chicago, Lammie-Hanson was accepted into the capstone program at the Hyde Park Arts Center's “Center Program” in 2021, culminating in the group show, “Dreams.” Her drawing “Dear Beautiful Black Boy” was acquired into the permanent collection at the Hilliard Art Museum located at the Louisiana University in Lafayette, LA in 2022, making her the first living artist in their permanent collection. She was also accepted in the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry's Black Creativity program later that year In the same year, she was accepted into Little Black Pearl's artist-in-residence program with the proposal of creating the world's largest silverpoint masterpieces measuring at 8 ft by 12 ft called "Dared to Be Black and Shining." This artwork was a positive depiction of a day in the life of a Black Harlem in the 1970’s - early 80’s which debuted at the Chicago Art Dept in January 2023.In 2024, her goldpoint piece "Exhilaration" from her Indigo Seven series was included in “A Common Thread That Binds Us” exhibit with Knowhere Art Gallery in the three-month exhibition with “Personal Structures” at the 60th Venice Biennale in Venice, Italy. Continuing her metalpoint exploration, she introduced "Gilded Agility," a new collection within the Indigo Seven series, debuting in June 2024 at the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago, focusing on the correlation of the science of the human body and the movement of ballet and modern dancers.