BIO
Dana Wilde is an artist devoted to creativity as a healing force, a cycle-breaking power, and a spiritual practice. Drawing, collage, handwriting, and printmaking are her primary forms. She also crafts supportive, catalyzing group experiences for people who want to reconnect with their own creativity, or find camaraderie with others around trying to prioritize it amidst the contradictory realities of modern life.
In 2026, one of Dana’s pieces was published in Contemporary Collage Magazine (UK), in Issue #8, print and digital. It’s from her new body of work called Decontextualized, a series of about 40 semi-abstract collages that mark a major artistic pivot.
In 2025, she was awarded a $5,000 Creative Individuals Grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
Coming up soon: CREATIVITY AS COUNTERMEASURE, weekend workshop in October 2026!
Best known for her early mixed media work Spirit Portraits (Northampton, 2000s-10s), her art studio + teaching space Inner Studio (Easthampton, 2015-2019), and playing drums in the “witch grunge” indie rock band Ex-Temper (2016-2023), Dana has been imprinted by and making an artistic imprint upon Western Massachusetts for most of her life.
