Dana Falconberry is an artist and musician living in Northern Michigan and West Texas. She grew up dancing classical ballet and modern dance in Dearborn, MI before attending Hendrix College in Arkansas. In college she studied songwriting, which prompted her move to Austin in 2005. After touring, recording, and leading a band for over a decade, she now finds herself focused on visual art. She worked for 6 years as a lead stitcher/designer at Fort Lonesome, a custom chainstitch embroidery company based in Austin. She is now focusing on her own art including landscape paintings, chainstitched wall hangings, and “paintstitches”. These pieces combine painting and chainstitch embroidery, often centering native flora. All of her work draws on the natural world, sometimes including supernatural elements to highlight the many facets of this world we as humans have yet to understand, and aims to connect the viewer to the land around them. "No matter the form my art takes, I am wholly captivated by the natural world. Landscapes and the flora and fauna existing within them are my endless subjects. I enjoy letting my imagination run in this context, sometimes exploring the supernatural elements just beyond our grasp. These days I have been working with acrylic paints and chainstitch embroidery, combined in what I call 'paintstitches'. In this medium I explore themes of 'Thin Places,' places where the veil between tangible life and everything else is thinner. Grief, mortality, and supernatural elements are all fields of interest to me here." — Dana Falconberry