Noelle Garcia currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Art at National Louis University within the undergraduate college. Noelle specializes in writing curriculum in the arts with an emphasis on Native American art history. She has worked in varying roles in arts education and nonprofit organizations for over 20 years. Prior to her current position, Noelle worked at Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education where she specialized in training artists and Chicago Public School teachers on designing collaborative arts integrated curriculum and projects.
Noelle obtained her B.F.A from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she received the Emily Hesemeyer Award, the Klamath Tribes Scholarship as well as the Barna Memorial Award during her residency at the Ox-bow School of Art. Noelle obtained her M.F.A. from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas during which she was awarded the Elizabeth Furber Fellowship as well as the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian Emerging Artist Fellowship.
Noelle also maintains a professional studio art practice that focuses on themes of identity, family history and recovered narratives. She is an indigenous artist from the Klamath, Modoc, and Paiute tribes from Oregon and Northern Nevada. Her multidisciplinary practice utilizes various research methods in order to inform her methodology in both art making and education.