M Ryan Noble is an interdisciplinary artist and art therapist. He is part of a growing cadre of artists committed to serving people—many of whom struggle with mental health, poverty, family crises, chronic pain, and substance use. Ryan’s projects fit within a performance art rubric and he often contorts the most ordinary of media—watercolors, charcoal, plaster, found photographs, markers, copy machines, thrift store goods, and raw building materials—to expose distortions in the way people think about history, mental health, and national identity.