Ella Noe
I was born to Romanian parents in Israel and raised in South America. After moving from country to country all my life and absorbing what each place had to offer, I landed in San Francisco and made it my home seventeen years ago.
My whole life I've connected to the world through my art. Here in San Francisco, my photography has
multiplied as grids, morphed into mixed media and come out the other side as paintings and drawings. Nowadays, my visual artwork is taking a new turn as it enmeshes with dance and expands through poetry and tales
My diverse upbringing has given me the opportunity to work with youth from a wide diversity of backgrounds and economic levels ranging from Bedouin children in Israel to adolescent orphans in Romania. Here in the Bay Area I have worked as a photography and art teacher for organizations such as MOCHA (museum of children's art), MCCLA (mission cultural center for Latinx Arts in San Francisco) Mission Graduates and the Red Poppy Art House (where I have also been an artist resident). I participated in the San Francisco Studio School of Painting, Drawing, Photography and Mixed Media as a teacher assistant and studio and gallery manager for over 10 years and lately I have been collaborating with artists of multiple disciplines and cultural backgrounds.
"Two Tree Vignettes with Owls and Other"
I started creating these murals when SF shut down and the boards on store fronts and restaurants came up, as a way to share some JOY and COLOR with the people who already enduring difficult times were now surrounded by gloomy boarded up windows. The original murals bare the words: Some color for my neighbors. Take care.
