Noelle Garcia
"Doritos", 2016
Glass beads and thread
Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Collection
Gift of the artist
2017.22.002

Noelle Garcia uses a range of media to shape a personal response to the complexities of family relationships and indigenous identity. Her reimagined cigarettes bring Native American traditions of beadwork to bear on symbols of pervasive, commonplace cultural change. An enrolled member of the Klamath tribes, she has been a fellow of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian and the Nevada Arts Council. (DKS)