Noelle Mason
Born and raised in San Diego California multidisciplinary artist Noelle Mason (b. 1977) is associate professor of art at the University of South Florida Tampa. Her art is the result of her intensive research into surveillance technology and issues of border control. She works in a wide variety of media ranging from cyanotypes and collodions to handwoven tapestries. Mason holds an MFA in sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and she has garnered many awards and residencies throughout her career including the South Arts Southern Prize (2017) and Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Artist Grant (2013). She held a residency at the esteemed Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine among other commendations.