Antionette Simmons Hodges
Antionette Simmons Hodges resides in Silver Spring. Her art career includes thirty years of teaching elementary art with the District of Columbia Public Schools, and a year at Sandy Spring Friends School in Olney, MD. Ethnographic Card Company acquired many of Hodges’ paintings as part of the African American Card Collection from 1996 – 2001. Other publications have also reproduced Antionette’s art. In 2006 applause at Strathmore Magazine, featured “Music by Moonlight,” on its cover. “Feelin’ the Rhythm,” became cover art for Harlem Blues, a book written and published in France by Christine Duale' and L' Harmattan publishers in 2014. Antionette exhibited in two local group exhibitions in 2015: At War With Ourselves at the Brentwood Arts Exchange and the Carnaval: Celebrations of the African Diaspora at the Pepco Edison Place Gallery. She also had a successful show Following Her Dream at the Congress Heights Arts & Cultural Center in SE, Washington, D. C. in 2016. In the same year, Antionette received a grant from The District of Columbia Arts and Humanities Commission for two paintings “Tangle Improv II and III.” She has participated in many juried and group exhibitions in the D. C. Metropolitan area, as well as other parts of the country, including the U.S. Virgin Island and a unique display of art images of "TONI-KINS" at the University of Toulouse, France. She is also a member of Black Artists of DC (BADC).
