Faculty Member, Interactive Arts and Media
About
Theresa Devine is the Chief Executive Artist of Toxic Interactive, LLC. Toxic Interactive is a startup video game company with the vision to initiate a new dawn of creative, critical thinking for the enrichment of all lives through mainstreaming art. The company focuses on developing Xbox 360 games which combine entertainment and conceptual depth.
Theresa received her MFA in Painting at University of Houston in 1994 and her BFA in Painting and Printmaking with honors at Texas A & M University at Corpus Christi in 1991. In addition to running her game company, Theresa is currently a resident artist at the Chicago Printmakers Collaborative and a faculty member at Columbia College Chicago where she teaches Programming and Game Design.
Over the past 12 years, Theresa honed her technical skills within the technology departments of small startup and large corporate companies. She has fulfilled the roles of programmer, technical lead, analyst, designer and architect. Prior to working in technology Theresa taught art in the Diocese of Galveston-Houston and Cypress Fairbanks Independent School System. She served on the Cypress-Fairbanks curriculum committee and was a major contributor to re-write the Junior High Art Curriculum.
Theresa was born in Stevenspoint, Wisconsin and spent most of her childhood in Dixon, Illinois. During her high school years, her family relocated to Houston, Texas where she lived for 23 years before to returning to the Midwest. She currently lives and works in Chicago, where she enjoys the snow, amazing coffee and the trains.
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