Erika Huddleston (b. 1978, Houston, TX) lives in Dallas and is a Texas artist who works on-site in "urban wilderness" public greenspaces in cities. She paints in oil and over the past twelve years has painted and exhibited major bodies of work recording public parks along Waco Creek in Waco, Texas, Shoal Creek in Austin, Texas, the Trinity River in Dallas, Texas, Jemison Park in Birmingham, Alabama, the Ramble in Central Park in New York City and most recently in Deepdene Park designed by Olmsted in Atlanta, Georgia. She attended Vanderbilt University for her BA in Fine Arts. the University of Texas at Austin for a MLA [Masters in Landscape Architecture] and studied at Parsons School of Design in NYC. In 2013-2014, she was an artist with the NEA funded ten-month community engagement and public art initiative led by Dallas' bcWORKSHOP- "Activating Vacancy"- in the Tenth Street Historic District Freedman's Town in Dallas. She was artist-in-residence with the non-profit Shoal Creek Conservancy in Austin in 2014, and her paintings and maps of Waco Creek were shown with the Art Center of Waco at the Mayborn Museum, Baylor University, in 2017. Her work is in the collection of UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Fidelity Bank, the Four Seasons in Austin, and in other private and public collections. She has been a resident at the Vermont Studio Center and the 100W Corsicana Artist and Writer Residency.