[1] Her minimalist paintings and drawings have subsequently transformed over the years into other media (animation, sculpture, and installation), being expressed as "drawings-in-space."

"[2] Louden has become known for her variety of large-scale installations that use suspended aluminum, fiber optics with glass rods, and colorful vinyl.

In the summer 2023 at Breck Create (Breckenridge, CO), she suspended aluminum, placed colored vinyl on the walls and floors, and hung works on paper in an installation that addressed societal barriers historically preventing women and underprivileged from moving forward past obstacles.

[6] During the pandemic, she collaborated remotely with art students to create an outdoor installation of colored glass and rock that celebrated the 100th anniversary of Women's Suffrage in the United States, an exhibition that also featured a new animation.

She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in 1988, where she studied with Dan Gustin and Susanna Coffey.

"Footprints", "Hedge", "The Bridge", and "Carrier" were screened in the East Wing Auditorium in 2011; "Community in 2013; and "Untitled (in dialogue with Len Lye, "Free Radicals")" in 2017.

During these programs, Louden's animations were screened with other notable works, such as "Lines Horizontal" by Norman McLaren (1962); "Two Space" by Larry Cuba (1979); "Free Radicals" by Len Lye (1958); "Symphonie Diagonal" Viking Eggeling (1924); "Silence" Jules Engel (1968); and "Chemical Sundown" by Jeremy Blake (2001), to name a few.

The first book includes essays by artists Julie Blackmon, Sharon Butler, Amanda Church, Maureen Connor, Will Cotton, Blane de St. Croix, Jennifer Dalton, Karin Davie, Peter Drake, Carson Fox, Michelle Grabner, the Art Guys, Ellen Harvey, Julie Heffernan, David Humphrey, Richard Klein, Beth Lipman, Jenny Marketou, Maggie Michael, Adrienne Outlaw, Amy Pleasant, Melissa Potter, Justin Quinn, and Kate Shepherd, as well as a foreword by Carter Foster, deputy director of the Blanton Museum of Art and a conclusion by Ed Winkleman and Bill Carroll, director of the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program.

Contributors to Louden's "Artist as Culture Producer" include Alec Soth (Little Brown Mushroom), Alison Wong (Butter Projects), Andrea Zittel, Carrie Moyer (Dyke Action Machine), Chloe Bass, Edgar Arceneaux, Mark Tribe, Matthew Deleget (Minus Space), Morehshin Allahyari, Paul Henry Ramirez, Sharon Butler (Two Coats of Paint), Steve Lambert (The Center for Artistic Activism), Tim Doud and Zoë Charlton ('sindikit), Wendy Red Star, William Powhida.

Additional contributors include: Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief and co-founder of Hyperallergic (foreword), Deana Haggag, director of USA Artists in Chicago, Courtney Fink, co-founder of Common Field, and Chen Tamir Curator at the Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv, Israel (Conclusion).

Between 2009 and 2019, Louden organized and moderated the Professional Practice Lecture Series at the New York Academy of Art, which included Randy Cohen, Deana Haggag, Hrag Vartanian, Andrianna Campbell, Jerry Saltz, Roberta Smith, Robert Storr, Ken Johnson, Caroline Woolard, William Powhida, and Paddy Johnson.

She is married to a media producer, jazz musician and activist Vinson Valega and lives and works in New York City.