[2] Barbara Noah earned a bachelor's degree in art from Mills College in 1971,[3] where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa.
[4][5][6][7] In 1981, Noah's photography appeared in an exhibition alongside Ellen Carey and Cynthia Kanstein at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
These include possible mixtures of painting, drawing, sculptural components, found objects and materials, assemblage, collage, and other media.
[14] The artist describes it as "an ironically titled series of digital pigment prints contemplating climate change and reflecting a personal and cultural desire for transcendent experiences and survival expressed through metaphoric figurative surrogates in terrestrial and distant skies".
[10] Toss and Turn was a continuation of an earlier series, Likely Stories, which Noah was able to complete after winning the Twining Humber Award.