Dr. Danica Maier is an artist and Associate Professor in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Her artistic practice engages with materially embedded approaches to making, often exploring the slippages of translation between drawing, textiles, and text. She has studied in the USA and UK focusing on painting and textiles as a contemporary art practice. She founded and led The Summer Lodge (2009 – 2019), an artist residency at NTU, and is involved in several long-term artistic research collaborations, including Bummock: Artists in Archives (2015 – ongoing); Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity(2018 – 2024), performed at Nottingham Contemporary in 2019 and Houghton Hall Music Festival in 2024; and Returns(2013 – ongoing), an artist group that developed from Topographies of the Obsolete; Smatterings (2023-ongoing) a collective of UK-based artist-lecturers exploring studio-based art education through research, performative events, and public engagement. She performed as part of Convocation within the Research Pavilion, Venice, in 2019. Her published artistic research appears in JAR (Journal of Artistic Research), TEXTILE: Cloth and Culture, the Journal of Research in Arts and Education, among others. Beyond her artistic practice, Maier is a qualified mentor and coach, offering independent support to artists and broader creative practitioners.