Noel Waite is an interdisciplinary artist based in Denver, CO, who works primarily in painting and printmaking. She recently earned her BFA in Painting from the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Her work explores escapism as a response to grief, neurodivergence, and the loss of childhood, drawing from Celtic mythology, fairy folklore, and 19th-century Romanticism. Through painting and printmaking, she creates symbolic, dreamlike worlds where themes of femininity, transformation, and healing converge. By blending personal mythology with political narrative, her practice reclaims magic as a form of truth-telling and self-reclamation.

Education

2025 Pacific Northwest College of Art, BFA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025 PNCA, BFA Thesis 

2025 PNCA Group Exhibition, Mythologies of Presence

2025 Dump Magazine, Correspondence

2024 Joan Pickett Group Exhibition, Remembrance

2023 PNCA Visual Studies Department, BFA Painting Department Exhibition

Awards

2025 William H. Givler Thesis Award in Fine Arts

2023 - 2025 Charles Schnitzer Award