Noa Batlle is a Dominican artist whose practice bridges art, accessibility, and social justice. Since 2013, they have developed long-term collaborations with schools for the Deaf and public education, work that extends into institutional change — from conceiving and leading the first Department of Inclusion and Accessibility at Santo Domingo City Hall to advancing the country’s most inclusive elections to date. Their work spans classrooms and concert stages, including accessibility collaborations with Coldplay and Bad Bunny that marked unprecedented moments in the Dominican Republic’s music scene.

Batlle has taken part in international platforms such as the United Nations General Assembly (2023) and the 19th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates (2024). Current projects include Pendientes (Honorary Mention, 31st Dominican Biennial) and the paper Decolonizing Language as a Practice of Peace: Epistemic Violence and Botanical Naming in the Caribbean and Latin America — incorporating Batlle’s drawings, which approach botanical forms through the lens of queer ecology — selected for presentation at the Mérida World House Forum in 2026, a global initiative advancing peace and justice with leading figures such as Dr. Ela Gandhi.

Batlle is currently in residency at the Dominican National Botanical Garden, where their workshop for public school students has been integrated into the Garden’s official community service program.