Danielle “Dae” Tyas is a multidisciplinary artist primarily working within forms of photography, music, film, and writing. Within these various mediums she highlights the communities she comes from and has familial ties to, mostly exploring South Central Los Angeles, California and towns of the Deep South, while preserving cultural history that is specific to her by creating artistic documentation. This is reflected through her subjects of family, community neighbors, cultural identity, and social matters– as well as her incorporation of archival content to supplement her present art and rebirth generational traditions of expression. Tyas finds inspiration from communities that are often overlooked and the people within them, further introducing outside eyes into everyday lifestyles and social accounts they may not have been exposed to.

After studying at New York University’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music and receiving a BFA (2022), she gravitated towards creating music influenced by her visual artistic mediums and is producing works that integrate them in immersive ways. Upon receiving the Clive Davis Institute’s Visual Storytelling Grant, she began to embark on motion picture film projects that correspond to her photography and music. Tyas currently contributes her multidisciplinary creative disciplines to projects within the music recording industry at large.