DANNIELLE TEGEDER

Dannielle Tegeder is a New York-based Tarot practitioner, artist, and educator. She has been working with Tarot in her own art practice in the context of her 25-year-long investigation into the unseen structures that power our world. Her practice is grounded on painting but also extends to drawing, wall works, sculpture, installation, animation, music, artist books, conceptual strategies, and writing. 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. 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. Like an oracle, Dannielle uses Tarot in her work, interweaving legacies of hard-edge abstraction and women’s craft with spiritual wisdom.

Her painting and installation draws from the multi-disciplinary spirit of 20th century art practices while seeking to find new experimental approaches. Dannielle is an Associate Professor at Lehman College, CUNY, where she has taught since 2008. She is a co-founder of the feminist art collective Hilma’s Ghost. Her work has been presented both nationally and internationally in Paris, Houston, Los Angeles, Berlin, Chicago, and New York. This is Dannielle’s second course with Morbid Anatomy, following her Spring course on Tarot for Creativity. She also hosts in-person Tarot Teas and readings at the Morbid Anatomy library in Brooklyn, NY and at her studio to welcome new and old Tarot practitioners into community and explore the Tarot in-depth.