Kathryn Ault Noble spent her early career in the South where she worked as a designer/art director on national and international accounts. Kathryn’s design work won ADDY awards from the Arkansas and Memphis Advertising Federations.
Her first illustration client was Lucy Rigg, famed Teddy Bear artist, for whom Kathryn developed a line of teddy bear greeting cards. Then she went on to be represented by Susan Trimpe of Susan and Company and created illustrations for McMillan/McGrawHill and Houghton Mifflin.
In 1995 Kathryn became a faculty member at The Art Institute of Seattle in the Animation and Game Arts Departments, teaching Concept Art and Digital Painting and was awarded Faculty of Excellence and Digital Master Painter Awards.