What We Do
Writing Space offers artists and designers access to workshops, one-on-one project consultations, and a community to help with all forms of writing, including project statements, cover letters, press releases, essays, books, and creative projects.
Who We Are
MAGGIE TAFT
FOUNDING DIRECTOR
Maggie Taft has been teaching writing for over ten years. Trained to teach at the University of Chicago and Washington University in St. Louis, she has led workshops, instructed one-on-one, and edited the work of professional writers.
Before establishing the Institute, Maggie earned a PhD in art history from the University of Chicago, where her dissertation "Making Danish Modern, 1945–1960" received the 2015 Dean's Distinguished Dissertation Award in the Humanities. From 2014–16 she served as Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry at Washington University in St. Louis. Taft's writing and reviews have appeared in many magazines and journals including Artforum, The Point, Texte Zur Kunste, Design and Culture, and The Journal of Design History. She is coeditor of Art in Chicago: A History from the Fire to Now (University of Chicago Press, 2018), the first single volume history of art in Chicago from the nineteenth century through the present day. Her book, The Chieftain and the Chair: The Rise of Danish Design in Postwar America is out now from the University of Chicago Press.