“I've been an artist for most of my life. I attended the High School of Art and Design in Manhattan. I went to Parsons and studied photography there. So I have a BFA in photography. And then I am also a writer. So I've received my MFA in fiction writing. I started out my life as an artist working in illustration. I was learning illustration techniques, and drawing and painting and things like that. I've been self-taught in collage techniques, ceramics, multimedia arts, and fiber arts a little bit more now. I had to sort of change gears in the middle of my life because I came out at 40. And I was married for a really long time, and I didn't have a full time job. And I had been a teaching artist for a while on and off, and I had two children. So I needed a full time job and I became a New York City public school teacher. All the sort of mediums that I've been working with lent really well to working in a high school. Because you kind of need to know how to work with lots of different materials in order to teach it, and have kids explore materials. And it's high school. So kids want to have more variety.” Danielle Bullock on how her identity informs her work: “My queer identity influenced my work enormously. Throughout my life, I've often made a lot of work about myself and the stages of development, so to speak. And being a queer, older woman. It's important to my identity. Or female identified. My eldest child is transgender. And there's a lot going on in the world right now with transgender legislation against trans kids. And I don't really create work around that subject, but it's foremost in my mind. I'm constantly thinking about it. I've done a lot of banner making and helping other artists, things like that. So I think a lot of times artists are kind of overlooked in movements, but I think art can be a really important force for making visual statements, especially in protests and and other ways of getting attention of politicians and things like that. So I'd say my identity is enormously important in my work, especially my photographic work. Because throughout my lifetime, I've photographed myself and I've used myself. Aging the queer body and aging is enormously important in my work.”