Dannielle Tegeder uses Tarot, ritual, and divination to engage with current debates around abstraction, design, and utopian thinking.
She believes that Tarot can help anyone, especially artists, access intuition, creativity, and collective knowledge, breaking away from logic and other limited ways of knowing. Dannielle’s magick-centered pedagogy aims to empower students to confidently use the incredible power of Tarot to find guidance and connect to rich histories of divination and ritual.
As an oracle, Dannielle uses Tarot in her own life and practice legacies of hard-edge abstraction and women’s craft with spiritual wisdom.
Born in Peekskill, NY, she currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. She received a BFA from the State University of New York at Purchase, and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been presented both nationally and internationally in Paris, Houston, Los Angeles, Berlin, Chicago, and New York. She has participated in numerous institution exhibitions including PS1/MOMA, The New Museum, The Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York, and Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Several of her drawings are included in the Contemporary Drawing Collection at the Museum of Modern Art.
Dannielle has been a visiting artist in over forty institutions. She is an Associate Professor of Art with tenure at the City University of New York at Lehman College, and has held full time university positions at Cornell University, and SUNY Purchase. She is the recipient of several residencies and grants including The Yaddo Foundation, The Triangle Foundation Residency and Workshop, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in New York, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, P.S.1/MOMA National and International Studio Program, and The Marie Walsh Sharpe Studio Fellowship, NY, among others. In 2021, Dannielle co-founded the feminist art collective Hilma’s Ghost.
A life-long educator, Dannielle has over 20 years of formal collegiate teaching experience. Her group courses and one-on-one mentorship make her teaching experience and expertise in utilizing Tarot, magick, and the divine available in accessible, easy to understand coaching. Dannielle focuses on accessing the power of the mystical not just for rituals and divination, but also to effect the everyday, building simple practices that can enhance your practice, clear your path, and open your future.
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"[Tarot Basics] revolves around how the tarot deck affects creatives. As Dannielle puts it, ‘tarot is a tool for our work.’ She emphasizes that although the hidden layers can be overwhelming, we should approach the deck with ease, integrating it into our own daily lives. There is no book needed to deconstruct the cards. Art history can be a helpful guide as well. The class is so succinct, incorporating 300 years of art history in this virtual journey. I left the class feeling inspired to create and include this exciting and mysterious course that ‘transcends the virtual realm’! Five stars!!!" - Nicole
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“All of the classes and workshops I've attended with Danielle… have been informative and inspiring.” - Emily
“Dannielle brings a wealth of extremely well organized information to every class. She prioritizes creating an amazing sense of community. This has been present in every class. Sometimes I almost forget that we're not actually all in a room together. She is incredibly thoughtful and sensitive to each and every one of us which both facilitates deep learning AND sense of community… Everything about your class is a gift! I am always both inspired and excited. Dannielle’s classes (and your individual readings) have impacted my life and art (and everything in-between).” - Judith
“I love this community. Always learn about new artists or pieces I want to research during the art history portions. Incredibly researched and always fun.”