In 1981, she began to teach at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, where she taught painting for thirty-five years until her retirement in 2017.

[4][5] She has received awards such as a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship,[6] Women's Studio Workshop Studio Residency Grant,[7] and a YADDO fellowship.

[4] Her painting "Seed Travel" appeared in the Stamford Museum and Nature Center.

[8] Dancy taught painting at the University of Connecticut, Storrs for thirty-five years, before retiring in 2017.

[9] Dancy was the art director and the illustrator of The Freedom Business, a book by her friend Marilyn Nelson.