DENISE WAITE
EDUCATION
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago IL
Master of Arts in English, Program for Writers expected June 2026
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University (SMFA), Boston,MA
Master of Fine Arts May 2020
Williams College, Williamstown, MA
Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art with honors June 2014
Area of Specialization: Painting and Drawing
HONORS AND AWARDS
Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring Award, UIC, 2023-2024
A Graduate College and Honors College award for excellence in graduate student teaching and mentoring of undergraduates.
Founders Award Scholarship, SMFA Merit Scholarship
Nathaniel Lawrence Travel Fellowship, Williams College, Summer 2013
Summer travel fellowship to Jamaica to examine the role of theater in nation building; Conducted research at the University of the West Indies, Mona working with university faculty and interviewed playwrights, actors and directors in Kingston and Mandeville
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2023-2024 Teaching Assistant (instructor of record) UIC
2019-2020 Graduate Writing Consultant, Tufts University,
2019 Teaching Assistant, SMFA at Tufts, Boston, MA (Post Baccalaureate Foundations Seminar, Fall 2019)
2013-2014 Museum Guide, Williams College Museum of Art
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 EXPO Chicago, CPS Lives booth #380, Navy Pier, Chicago IL
2024 It’s Giving, Black History, UIC 5th floor Gallery, Chicago, IL
2023 CPS Lives Class of 2023 Vol. II, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
2023 CPS Lives Class of 2023, Jude Gallery, Chicago, IL
2021 As Above, So Below, Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, MA
2020 As Above, So Below: MFA Thesis Exhibit, online
2019 Verdant, SMFA Gallery, Boston MA
2019 303 ,SMFA, The W. Van Alan Clark, Jr Library, Boston MA
2019 Disconnect: First Year MFA Exhibition, SMFA, Mission Hill Gallery, Boston MA
2018 Practice as Ritual, The Sanctuary UCC Medford, MA
2014 Heliotropes, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2019 Verdant, SMFA Gallery, Boston MA