Denise Doyle

Denise Doyle is a Teaching Artist and visual storyteller who was born and raised in the Bay Area. She lived in San Francisco for 15 years, before moving to Oakland in 2011. Denise expresses her creative language through painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, and mixed-media collage/assemblage. She holds a BFA in Photography from Academy of Art College in San Francisco, and a MA in Transformative Arts from John F. Kennedy University in Berkeley, California. She is also a grief and trauma informed, certified teacher of Faces of Your Soul mask-making. Denise served as a Teaching Assistant in the Visual Art department at Berkeley City College, has taught workshops and classes for adults and children at local art centers, schools, healing retreats, and most recently out of her home studio, Wood Rabbit Studios. She loves to dance, garden, read magical books, build public altars, and be inspired by her students. Denise lives with her family in a magical garden cottage in North Oakland.