Chris Boese
Visual Artist
Chris Boese is an artist working in Photography, based in Amherst, Massachusetts. Known for Landscape, Animals.
Northeast US photographer & visual storyteller who blends fine art landscapes, documentary, and street photography for lived-in, authentic spaces.
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
1993 – 1998Ph.D. Rhetoric and Technical Communication
Completed one of the first “born digital” webbed dissertations in the US (cited in Chronicle of Higher Ed., 2005), an online ethnography that can’t be reproduced on paper and doesn’t read same way twice. Interviewed about project in New York Times article on cult TV, 2000. Permanent site, www.nutball.com/dissertation, has been required in grad seminars within & outside the U.S. Rensselaer Founders' Award (highest award at RPI); Master Teaching Fellow
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
1986 – 1990M.F.A. Creative Writing
Felix McKeon Award, Poetry; Runner-up Lily Peter Fellowship; Poetry; M. Blair Hart award for creative non-fiction
University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
1981 – 1985B.A. Journalism
Arthur L. Murray Scholarship for Outstanding Contributions to Campus Publication; Harry E. Polk Memorial Award, 2nd Place; Best-Designed Special Page First Place; Color Photography, Society of Professional Journalists-Sigma Delta Chi; Qualified for National Forensics Association and American Forensics Association Nationals, 2 yrs (national public speaking competitions) 10 first place and finalist awards for Persuasive Speaking, After Dinner Speaking, and Prose/Dramatic Interpretation while on the nationally-ranked UWEC Speech and Debate Team