CURRICULUM VITAE/ABOUT
PUBLICATIONS, MEDIA
Summer 2027, Upcoming Essay to Appear in: Bad Sex: Writers on Laying Themselves Bare, Anthology Edited by Cathy Alter
2022, Feature Story: “Traditional Blocks, Painterly Process,” Art Quilting Studio, Stampington & Company
2022, Condé Nast’s World of Interiors, (British Publication.)
2021, Guest Blogger, Block-Printing Linen Tutorial. springdaisystichery.com
2021, Interview: Material Goods Podcast
2010. Cover Art for Sleeping with Salem by Mary Ann Mulhern, Black Moss Press, Windsor, Ontario
2008, Illustrated Package Design for EcoDesign Solutions
2007-2008, Illustrated KinderReaders Series of Coloring Books
2006, Mentioned in the Piece “Plan B” by David Hollander, Poets and Writers Magazine
2006, Personal Essay, Western North Carolina Woman Magazine
JURIED SHOWS, HONORS
2023, Lockhart Open Studios/Gallery Tour
2021, Quiltcon Phoenix
2020, International Quilt Festival, Modern Quilt Guild Exhibit
Finalist, Hunting Art Prize
Finalist, Still Life, The Artist’s Magazine Annual Competition
Top Ten Portrait Artists in Texas, named by the Portrait Society of America
First Place, Daily Paintworks Monthly Contest
White on White Show, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock
Art Hop, Georgetown, TX
That one show at the place down there
Blackbird Studio, multiple group shows
2008, Finalist, Blue Moon Brewery Art Contest
2003, Sarah Lawrence Gallery, solo photography show
2003 Sarah Lawrence Gallery, solo painting show
1999, Awarded Geraldine Putnam Clark Annual Scholarship for Excellence in Visual Arts
1996, Group Show, Texas Art Supply Gallery, Houston
EDUCATION
Johns Hopkins University, Master’s Candidate in Creative Nonfiction (current)
B.A. Sarah Lawrence College, Oxford University (exchange student)
Private atelier study at The Ryder Studio, Santa Fe
Naomi was raised by a tough-as-nails single mom and eventually became one herself. Along the way, she learned to stop forcing her creativity into a single box. She thrives only when she’s doing it all: pencil behind her ear, needle in one hand, paintbrush in the other, laptop balanced on her knee, and house paint on her toes.
Like her upbringing—messy, diverse, and cross-pollinated across cultures and classes—Naomi’s work resists categorization. She moves fluidly between textiles, essays, illustration, painting, and design. And yet, the same themes echo regardless of the medium: craftsmanship and detail, tension between opposites, and the search for beauty in contradiction—tradition and modernity, symmetry and asymmetry, abundance and minimalism, order and chaos. A risk-taker at heart, Naomi embraces creative disruption and the productive mess that comes with it, breaking patterns to find new ones.
Naomi is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, studied at Oxford University, and is pursuing her master’s in Creative Nonfiction at Johns Hopkins University, where she is at work on an essay collection. She has two children and a long list of loves: fermented food, exquisitely-tailored suits, running, loud music, 19th century literature, houseplants, and anything black.
Email her: hello@naomihughes.com