D. Lammie-Hanson, a self-taught contemporary artist from Harlem now based in Chicago, specializes in large metalpoint drawings that capture the human spirit. In 2017, during a self-directed residency in Barcelona, she honed her skills in the metalpoint technique, drawing with thin metal wires on dark surfaces, a method tracing back to the Renaissance. One of her notable works from this period, A Portrait of His Beautiful Blackness, was exhibited in the Louisiana Contemporary exhibition at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans. Her artwork won Best of Show at the Wiregrass Museum of Art in Dothan, Alabama, in 2018. Her achievements include a solo show at the GW Carver Interpretive Museum in Dothan and winning the Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series New Orleans Regional, which led to her participation in Scope Art during Art Basel Miami. For the New Orleans Tricentennial, Lammie-Hanson was one of twelve selected artists who created 25 works, 22 of which were silverpoint, featured in the Times-Picayune and the book 300 for 300. She also produced 25 contemporary silverpoint portraits for the Essence Music Festival’s 25th anniversary, sponsored by Arts New Orleans. In 2021, she joined the Hyde Park Art Center’s Center Program, producing four large silverpoints, each measuring 4 × 4 feet. One piece, Dear Beautiful Black Boy, was acquired by the Hilliard Art Museum in Lafayette, Louisiana, marking her as the first living artist in their permanent collection. During her 2022–23 residency at Little Black Pearl Academy in Chicago, she created the world’s largest silverpoint drawing, Dared to Be Black and Shining (8 × 12 feet), which premiered at the Chicago Art Dept. This monumental work depicts a day in the life of Harlem, reflecting the stories of her childhood hometown. In April 2024, Lammie-Hanson’s first goldpoint drawing, Exhilaration, was featured in The Common Threads That Bind Us with Knowhere Art Gallery (Martha’s Vineyard) at the Personal Structures exhibition during the 60th Venice Biennale in Venice, Italy. Her second metalpoint series, Indigo Seven: Gilded Agility, featuring goldpoint renderings of dancers’ musculature on indigo substrates, debuted at the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago in June 2024. During her artist residency at Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU) in Fall 2025, Lammie-Hanson began a new 14K goldpoint project on indigo, expanding her ongoing Indigo Seven Series. The work, titled The Cathedral of Alvin, is a monumental 8 × 12-foot drawing depicting the three suites of Alvin Ailey’s Revelations. Initiated during the residency, the piece captures the spiritual movement of Ailey’s choreography in luminous gold against deep indigo. Its interior setting is modeled after the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, evoking the grandeur and sacred architecture of the space. She continues to complete this ambitious work in 2026 at her studio at the Hyde Park Art Center, exploring the intersection of dance, divinity, and the transformative power of goldpoint.