PWNW enthusiastically introduces our 2026 Alembic Parent Visting Artist, Noel Price-Bracey! The Alembic Parent Artist receives studio time plus a stipend to help with childcare and/or any other life expenses. Noel will be in residence at Performance Works NW August 3rd–14th. Workshop info and details for other community events coming soon!
Noel Price-Bracey

Noel Price-Bracey is a contemporary artist, advocate, and educator whose attention to social change has led her to create, collaborate, and perform across the U.S., including Kalamazoo, MI, Detroit, MI, Chicago, IL, Seattle, WA, Spokane, WA, Bellingham, WA, Missoula, MT, and Portland, OR as well as internationally, Canada and Italy. In 2014, she established PRICEarts LLC, a multidisciplinary arts organization with a mission to empower communities to find freedom through creative expression. In 2019, she received the SeattleDances, Dance Crush award for her work with PRICEarts and her commitment to advocating for mental wellness through dance. With her teaching, Price-Bracey explores the dynamic tension between Western learning modalities and communal pedagogical practices. Noel earned her MFA in Dance from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 2024, where her research addressed the perceived absence of dance within Black arts historiographies and engaged, embodied performance, protest, and reenactments of The Black Arts and Black Power Movement through to modern social movements. Noel Price-Bracey is currently an Assistant Professor of Jazz dance at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA.
As with most bodies of water the stick can not divide sand and sea; this is true for contemporary art. Living art is impacted, ever changing, washing in and out carrying with it new waves of influence.

