Pamela Smith Hudson

Pamela Smith Hudson is an LA-based artist and educator with 20 years of experience in the art material industry. She has served as an art educator and consultant for some of the most innovative manufacturers across the globe, and is currently a teaching artist at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Known for her work with encaustic elements, Smith Hudson also experiments with other materials, including plaster, clay, graphite, and watercolor. She creates topographical works that chronicle her connections to the city of Los Angeles and concern for the land.

Smith Hudson was the subject of a two-person show, Charting the Terrain, at the California African American Museum in 2018, and her works are included in the permanent collections at LACMA and CAAM. She has collaborated with the Broad Museum and the Getty Museum on educational videos about encaustic mixed-media processes.