A wide shot of a ceramics studio, featuring students working with pottery wheels and other tools.
Noelle Africh, a person with light skin tone, dark hair, and wearing a black shirt, standing against a white wall.

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Noelle Africh

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Bio

Noelle Africh lives and works in Chicago. They received their MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2022 and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign in 2015. Africh recently completed the 2026 Artist in Residence program at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Their work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Twelve Ten, Chicago (2026), Slow Dance, Chicago (2024), and SHED Projects, Cleveland (2023). Recent group exhibitions include Document Gallery (Lisbon), Secrist | Beach, Galerie Gisela Clement, the Hyde Park Art Center, and The Green Gallery-West, among others.

Courses

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Description

This course explores the interpretation of the landscape using both drawing and painting mediums. The class works both inside and outside of the studio, taking advantage of the natural and architectural sites of Chicago adjacent to the School.

Class Number

1180

Credits

3

Description

Students draw from the model as a means of understanding form, shape, and line using a variety of media. The course emphasizes shorter poses as training in immediate response to gesture and form. This course serves as a requirement and preparation for topic-based Figure Drawing B classes.

Class Number

1771

Credits

3

Description

Simply put, this class is about exploring possibilities-- the use of various combinations of materials used, wet and/or dry, on any paper related products, from fine drawing sheets to left over cardboard, as long as the what and how of it is on/with a paper support...the individual pursuit for a personal visual voice is encouraged...during the first several weeks, various 'problems' will be given to start things moving?

Class Number

1786

Credits

3

Description

This studio explores specific problems in each student's area of concentration and interest. Students are expected to command familiarity with problems of color, composition, and basic materials.

Class Number

1807

Credits

9

Description

Class Number

1164

Credits

3