Viewpoint – Danyelle Yoder
LETTING GO: It was the pandemic that cemented Danyelle Yoder’s conviction that she should make art her life’s work. As a girl, she’d turned to art after her parents’ divorce because she wanted “to feel something.” In 2020, with two young children at home, Yoder enrolled in the Milan Art Institute, an online school. She has balanced artmaking with childrearing ever since. Her portraits go beyond countenances to undercurrents. “Strength and resilience are big things in my work,” she said. Some artists dream of showing their work in big galleries, but Yoder is just working toward letting go. “I want to be sure to keep showing up, keep making the work, keep putting in the applications,” she said. “But I also want to just give up the control and let it take me where it wants to go.”danyelleyoder.com