Copper Eagle, 2000, acrylic on canvas, 23" x 24".

About the Artist:
Bill Hudson

What can I say, I love creating.   Paintings, prints, stories, theater pieces, video, sculptures, songs, posters.  I even love creating web sites — and electronic resumes like this one.

I moved to Alaska in 1971, as a teenager, and worked at several unromantic, dead-end jobs before starting my artistic career — as a musical instrument maker, building over 50 instruments including flutes, harps, Appalachian dulcimers, hammered dulcimers, and African mbiras.  Around the same time — and mostly to support my musical instrument making — I started painting signs for friends, and eventually signmaking and graphic design became my real career — to support my fantasy career as an instrument makers.

I soon found myself specializing in handprinted silkscreen posters for various concerts and events, including the Alaska Folk Festival.

I also worked for many years, on the side, as a theatrical designer for Juneau's Preseverance Theater, and directed and produced numerous original productions, specializing in family-oriented theater.  In 1993, I moved to Colorado where I founded the Pagosa Pretenders Family Theater, to promote the involvement of whole families in creating original plays.

Today, I am working mainly as a web designer and as the publisher of a daily news web site, the Pagosa Daily Post, for my home community of Pagosa Springs.

I also work as a video producer, whenever I can find the work.