Joseph
Denise Joseph has over 15 years of experience in client services, brand communications, and visual storytelling. She is adept at collaborating with artists, community leaders, city officials, and business professionals to develop dynamic art collections and master plans that reflect the identity of her public and private sector projects. As the Director of Curatorial at NINE dot ARTS, Denise manages other consultants, curators, and interdisciplinary project teams while overseeing everything from the initial project visioning to community engagement, art location planning, and the curation and installation of the final art collection. Her leadership and consulting expertise includes working directly with private and public sector clients, including architects, designers, developers, and municipalities/cities, on projects ranging from comprehensive public art master plans to curated corporate art collections across a range of verticals including nonprofit, hospitality, multifamily, and mixed-use. Denise has a masters in modern art history, theory, and criticism from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and considers herself a perpetual student of the arts through her work each day.