When Dance Doyle found tapestry, she had been delivered. Weaving structures became a way to channel difficult emotions into something tangible that could not be expressed with words. Turning tapestry into a visual journal about her past struggles with homelessness and addiction became transformative. Since then, Doyle has been wildly invested in this work. Today, Doyle articulates stories through shaped, large-scale, urban-contemporary tapestry. She became self-taught through trial, error, and taking risks. This has allowed her the freedom to invent her own techniques, flipping traditional forms of tapestry to follow infinite directions, breathing into the work a living pulse. For the last 13 years, Doyle has been creating large-scale, urban contemporary tapestry to which she was introduced while attending San Francisco State University. 

Doyle served as vice-president of Tapestry Weavers West, is a member of the Textile Arts Council at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, CA. Her work has been displayed at the Legion of Honor Museum and the de Young Museum in San Francisco, and at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles. In addition, she has been published in Textile Fibre Forum Magazine, an Australian publication, and the American Tapestry Alliance’s CODA Magazine. Recently, Doyle finished a 9 month Artist In Residence at the Textile Arts Center in Brooklyn, NY.  She is currently an Artist in Residence at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. In the fall of 2020, she will be attending the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts as an Artist in Residence, and in 2021, she will attend the Vermont Studio Center.