Kathleen Hudspeth is a painter, printmaker, ceramicist, writer and art educator in Miami, FL. Currently focused on oil-on-paper paintings, her artwork is an exploration of abstracted landscape through bodily memory and fiction. In her ceramic practice, works are both functional and sculptural, and focus on atmospheric firing methods such as soda and raku firing. Hudspeth’s printmaking also deals with an exploration of landscape and narrative.
As well as being the Founder and Co-Director of Turn-Based Press, she was an adjunct professor at New World School of the Arts for 13 years, with her last semester there being December 2022. Leaving academia was an intentional decision that has allowed her to focus on her art practice.
Hudspeth has taught the gamut of various printmaking courses at NWSA, along with a specialized studio class required for all incoming visual art students called Workshop in Art Research and Practice. She also taught Printmaking 1 for Florida Atlantic University for three consecutive semesters, starting in Fall 2020, both remotely and in-person. She has participated in various workshop events at museums, and during 2009 – 2011, also taught evening printmaking classes at Art Center South Florida, now known as Oolite Arts.
In 2009, she was the recipient of a matching Knight Arts Challenge grant in the amount of $150,000 to start and operate a community printshop. Ultimately only raising $40,000, Turn-Based Press opened and presented exhibitions, workshops, demonstrations and classes until 2016.
She has written texts for exhibitions since 2000, and worked as an art reviewer for local and national publications in the mid-2000’s.
You can follow her on Facebook, Instagram, or Substack; she will occasionally post invitations to her Discord server as well.
You can listen to a podcast in which KH is interviewed in tandem with her husband, Adler Guerrier.
An excerpt of a documentary about Knight Foundation grantees in which KH is featured can be seen here.
Color & Color #2, Black and White may still be available for purchase; it includes two drawings by KH.
Quiet Village, by Beatriz Monteavaro includes an essay about the artist written by KH, and is still available for purchase.
KH is available to hire for expert advice and technical assistance in traditional printmaking methods, but does not do contract printing. Collaborative printmaking projects are possible, but will only be considered for original, non-reproductive print work. She occasionally teaches printmaking workshops, but her instructional focus is in formalized, studio-based higher education.
Please use the contact form found here for inquiries and missives.
All images on this website are the copyright of Kathleen Hudspeth unless directly specified otherwise.
Page updated July 2024.
Photo at the top of this page by Daniel Portnoy; it’s an installation shot of her solo exhibition “It Was to Be a Glittering City” at Under the Bridge Art Space in 2016.