Disciplines: Visual Arts – drawing

Dance Doyle

Disciplines: Visual Arts – drawing
Region: Oakland, CA
Residencies: 2026

Dance Doyle is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator in the San Francisco Bay Area who's a Chenven Foundation, Barclay Simpson, and Murphy Cadogan Award recipient. Their work has been shown nationally and internationally and has been published in Textile Fibre Forum Magazine, Untitled Magazine, Fiber Art Now Magazine, 48 Hills, and Art21. They have participated in residencies, including the Museum of Arts and Design and Textile Arts Center in New York, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, NE, Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco, and Haystack in Deer Isle, Maine. Doyle finished a year-long graduate fellowship at Headlands Center in Sausalito, CA, in 2024; in 2025, began a fellowship at Chulitna Lodge in Port Alsworth, Alaska; and will be an artist in residence at McColl Center in Charolotte, NC in the late spring of 2026.

At MacDowell, Doyle researched their craft, painted, created illustrations, weavings, and wrote.

Studios

Alexander

Dance Doyle worked in the Alexander studio.

Funded through the generous support of Elizabeth Alexander, this studio was built in memory of her late husband, the renowned portrait painter John White Alexander (1856-1915). Originally designed as a visual art gallery, Marian MacDowell persuaded Elizabeth that the space would better serve the arts if commissioned as a visual…

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