D. Lammie-Hanson is an autodidactic African American artist who was born and raised in Harlem, New York City. Her love for creating art started at age 5 with a pencil and paper and stick figures. She attended Hudson Valley Community College and SUNY Albany for Psychology.

She has exhibited with the United Nations, Geneva’s Palais des Nations in Switzerland in support of their efforts to address global homelessness as well as having solo shows in NYC, Berlin, Germany, Atlanta GA, and New Orleans. Lammie-Hanson was the artist of the year for Brooklyn Academy of Music’s, BAM DanceAfrica 2007 in Brooklyn and has shown with the NYC Health and Hospitals Art collection with three of her photographs in their permanent collection.

Lammie-Hanson is a co-founder of the non-profit community artists’ organization, South of the Navy Yard Artists, Inc. which is based in Brooklyn. In New Orleans, Lammie-Hanson has shown with the LeMieux Galleries, Jazz and Heritage Foundation Gallery with the Women’s Caucus of Arts (Louisiana Chapter) ‘Femme Fest’ and with the New Orleans’ African American Museum “Pop-Up show. She has also exhibited at the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC), the Arts Council of New Orleans, Ashé Cultural Arts Center, the George and Leah McKenna Museum of African American Art, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, GW Carver Museum and the Wiregrass Museum of Art in Dothan, Alabama, and Le Musee f .p. c. in New Orleans. She is the only female artist of color who creates contemporary portraits in silver in the New Orleans area.