Ouida Touchon

Ouida Touchón is a visual artist from the western slope of Colorado who spends most of her waking moments at the easel or the press. She has her BFA in painting from the Kansas City Art Institute, and her Masters of Art from the University of Missouri at Kansas City in studio arts. In addition she has studied with mentors and distinguished print makers and painters in Italy, Mexico, and the United States.
Her work hangs in the Federal Building of Las Cruces, the El Paso Museum of Art, the Dona Ana Community College collection, and private collections throughout the west. She has taught printmaking and painting as well as mentored young artists in her community.
Her studio is a site for ongoing lessons in art that empower women to find their own creative voices through art making.
Her book Morning Paintings has just been published by LuLu press and is used in art therapy sessions taught by mental health professionals.
She is a member of the American Print Alliance, Southern Graphics Council , California Society of Printmakers, Los Angeles Printmaking Society, and Women Artists of the West among others.

Master of Arts/ Studio (Painting and Printmaking), University of Missouri Kansas City 2003
BFA Painting, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City MO 2000
International Art School, Summer Session w/ Lennart Anderson, Umbria, Italy 2000
Summer workshops at USD, Vermillion in printmaking (3 summers) Papermaking, Letterpress, Solar Plate Etching, Reduction Printmaking 2004-2007
AA Fashion Design, AA Patternmaking, El Centro College, Dallas, TX 1984

Iconic, Mixx Atelier Gallery, Telluride, CO 2023
Coors Western Art Exhibition, Denver Colorado, 2020-2021
Arvada Center, Arvada, CO, ‘528.0’- Printmaking exhibition, 2020
ArtGymDenver, Nude vs Naked, 2019
Palace Press, Santa Fe, NM, Poems & Prints, Poetry Broadsides, 2019
Arts Benicia, Benicia CA, In the Fields, Botanical Lore, 2018
1+1=1 Gallery,The Body, group show, 2018, Helena MT
Gallery 110, Greetings from the Anthropocene, group show, 2017 Seattle, WA
Gallery at Big Picture, Paint, Pixels and Ink, 2017, Las Cruces, NM
Parkside Art Gallery, 25th National Parkside Small Print Exhibition, 2017, U.of W. Kenosha
1+1=1 Gallery,The Body, group show, 2017, Helena MT