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Artists Opening Reception – Lila Hudgins

Name: Artists Opening Reception – Lila Hudgins
Start: 2026-02-07T17:30:00+00:00
End: 2026-02-07T19:00:00+00:00
Location: Art Gallery Upstairs at Crazy Wisdom

February 7 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Come and meet our Artist of the month Lila Hudgins and enjoy her Bright tropical inspired artwork. A breath of fresh color for the month of February.

Light snacks and refreshments provided.

Title: The Weight of Water

Show Description:

Water is the most powerful substance in the world. Not only necessary and responsible
for all life on earth, water is constantly recycled, and has its natural ability to carve out
our land to form massive canyons and sculpt mountains. Water carries the weight of
history.

The Weight of Water is artist Lila Hudgins’ first solo-exhibition; and an exploration of
Lila’s relationship with her water – the ocean and beaches she grew up on in Panama.
Through a range of abstraction, Lila Hudgins creates paintings soaked with tropicality
that pay homage to the spirituality and comfort found in the warm outdoors.
Within the exhibition, Lila has included paintings from her charity collection, Painting for
Panama, meant to raise money for JLM Christian Foundation – a non-profit dedicated to
aiding struggling Panamanians in a variety of ways. These paintings are clearly
indicated as such, and all proceeds go to JLM.

Artists Bio:

Lila Hudgins grew up surfing and painting on the Pacific coast of Panama from the ages of two to eighteen. She grew up in the interior of the country, and attended a small, K-12 international school started by her mom. Lila pulls inspiration from her life abroad, drawing on the landscapes, climate, and flora of Central America, creating intricate plant-scapes, surf scenes, and idealized beach paintings, all reminiscing on the environment she grew up in.

A senior at the University of Michigan, Lila has made her way into the Ann Arbor Art Scene. She has participated in the Emerging Artist program with the Guild of Artists and Artisans, and participated as a seller at the Kerrytown Artisan Market. She has had work featured in the Gutman Gallery, Makeshift Gallery, and several university and Ann Arbor-wide exhibitions, as well as had a booth at the Ann Arbor Street Art Fair – the Original in the summer of 2025.

@louuhudgg , lilascollective.com