Antionette Simmons Hodges

Antionette Simmons Hodges resides in Silver Spring, Maryland. She is a retired D.C. Public School elementary Art teacher. Her professional art career as a visual artist began while she was still teaching by creating artwork for California-based Ethnographic Card Company. Antionette was awarded a grant from the D.C. Commission of the Arts and Humanities for FY 2017. Out of this award, two of her paintings are now part of the Art Bank, which loans artwork to the D.C. Government Agencies. She also has a painting in the U S District Courthouse in Greenbelt, Maryland, and the Frank E. Merriweather, Jr. Public Library in Buffalo, N.Y. During the onset of the pandemic, Antionette’s art style evolved when she was inspired by an art lesson she taught her students. The new style, which she calls “Continuous Line Painting,” starts with a black scribble-like form, and then she positions a figure within the space, never knowing what she will see! Her featured painting, “Cotton Club Dancer,” exemplifies her new approach to painting.