Whitney Sage
Assistant Professor of Art and Design
Originally a suburban Detroit-native, Whitney Sage is a Chicago-based artist and educator who joined North Central College in Fall of 2019 and teaches a variety of courses in painting, drawing, and printmaking at North Central. Whitney has previously held teaching positions at Siena Heights University and Ohio University.
Whitney's artistic practice which focuses on architecture as language to discuss the history of and current challenges facing Rust Belt cities and the hotly contested visions for their future. While her practice is rooted in personal experience as a Midwesterner, her work seeks to appeal to many through notions of home, loss, hope and the protective impulse that we share for the places we love.
Whitney's work has been exhibited at the Painting Center, Superfront LA, UICA, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, and the Muskegon Museum of Art.