Her exhibitions include Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art; Beacon Street Gallery, Chicago; and University of Notre Dame Isis Gallery. Her art has appeared in Surface Design Journal, Shambhala Times, not enough night, and in the collaborative poetry book She, A Blueprint. Recipient of an NEA grant, Hammond West has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Steamboat Springs Mixed Media Painting School. Currently, she is associate professor of visual arts and director of the School of the Arts at Naropa University. Her work frequency spectrum is featured as the cover art for the first issue of Something on Paper.