Odessa embarked on a new adventure in 2020 and Opened Odessa Ford Arts and Design. Her studio, located at the Galleria at The Smith,  inside the Historic Smith Family Bookstore Building in Eugene, Oregon unfortunately closed due to the Pandemic. Here she created beautiful, colorful paintings and drawings. Her body of work is ever evolving. She is an accomplished painter and holds a BFA in Painting from Boise State University, where she graduated with Honors in 2008. Her work is exploratory and meditative. With a deep love of water, Odessa works primarily in watercolor, she often works in ink, acrylic and even paints store front windows for holidays and special occasions as well as murals.