Whitney Lea Sage is a multidisciplinary artist and educator originally from metro-Detroit currently serving as Assistant Professor of Art at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. She attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and graduated in 2008 with Bachelor’s degrees in Art Education and Painting. Whitney earned an M.F.A. in Studio Art from the Sam Fox School of Visual Art at Washington University in St. Louis in May, 2011.

Her work, which includes practices of painting, drawing, sculpture, fibers and installation, has been featured in notable group exhibitions at the Painting Center, Superfront LA Gallery, the Lexington Art League, UICA, the Muskegon Museum of Art, the Kennedy Art Museum and the Dennos Museum Center. A selection of Sage’s recent work has been featured in solo exhibitions at Indiana University East, Pump House Arts Center, Workhouse Arts Center, Art Reach Mid-Michigan, ROY G BIV, and Ripon College.

Sage has been an artist-in-residence at Popp’s Packing, the Vermont Studio Center, Wave Pool and will be an artist in residence at AIR Paducah in the summer of 2022. Her creative work has been featured in a number of publications including Manifest Gallery’s INDA 14, NOT REAL ART, Refract Journal, Hour Detroit Magazine, WomanArts Quarterly Journal, Newfound Journal, Maake Magazine, and the Post-Industrial Complex catalog, published by the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit as a survey of makers in the Detroit area.