Tracie Noles-Ross has been actively creating and exhibiting art for 25 years. She has also been responsible for such projects as co-founding The Fifth Gate Arts Center Gallery and Artists Studio co-op and the Flood and Mystic Chamber Salon, an experimental artist installation group. She has been a stable artist at Bare Hands gallery since the gallery's inception and had over 25 solo exhibitions in galleries all over the state. She has received awards from the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans , Anderson Ranch in Snowmass Colorado and Art's Alive in Florence Alabama. She was given an Award of Excellence by The University of Alabama at Birmingham's Women's Studies Program for her work as curator and was chosen for the Birmingham Biennial 3 in 2010 by curator Dan Cameron.

Ideas about self image and how we define ourselves by our life experiences plays heavily in the themes in Noles-Ross' work. Memory, sensory triggers, personal symbolism and the effect of culture and nature on the development of identity dominates her current work.