In 1999 she and her husband, Samuel Wallace moved to the island of Hawaii.  They produced jewelry together prior to Mr. Wallace's death.  Their work was the subject of a traveling exhibition, Arctic Transformations:  The Jewelry of Denise and Samuel Wallace.

Public collections including their work:  Anchorage Museum of History and Art; the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico; the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City as well as the Mingei International Museum in San Diego, California.  Lois Herr Dubin created a substantial hard-bound book for this exhibition (2005).