Hughes works in a black steel studio barn in Columbia County NY. She is Professor Emerita of Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), and teaches occasional workshops at, among others, Anderson Ranch Art Center in Colorado and HandShake Press in Ghent. Her practice ranges across painting, works on paper, printmaking, and ceramics. Hughes’ work can be found in many corporate, public, and private collections including Citibank, Pepsico, Prudential Bache, Pfizer Collection, Benziger Imagery Collection, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Dorsky Museum, Freedman Gallery of Albright College, and Museum of Rhode Island School of Design. Her many solo and group shows include Dru Arstark Gallery, David Beitzel Gallery, Piezo Electric, Philippe Briet Gallery, Graham Modern, Anita Shapolsky, and John Davis Gallery, and have been reviewed in ARTnews, Artforum, Art in America, The New York Times, D’Ars (Milan), Drawing Magazine, Art New England, etc. Hughes has traveled through residencies and extensive research/work in France, Italy and Mexico – along with local residencies at the Millay Colony and Art Omi.