Adrienne Hodge is a contemporary artist and art educator with over thirteen years of working experience in community arts, public school, museums, and the corporate sector. Her art work explores the cinematic quality of life events, landscapes, and dreams. She primarily works on paper using calligraphy ink in a process that blends drawn and painted layers with writing. As an educator, Adrienne is committed to a process-based philosophy of holding space for lifelong learners through focused techniques and creative support.
In 2017, Adrienne co-founded Moon Gallery & Studio with her creative partner, Lauren Tarbel. Moon Gallery & Studio showcased the work of local and national artists in a number of solo and group exhibitions, offered classes and workshops in a variety of mediums, and hosted weekly and monthly figure drawing classes both in-person and online for several years. Most recently, Adrienne worked as the Studio Coordinator for Meta Open Arts in Austin, TX with a global team of over twenty-two other Studio Coordinators in North America, Europe, & APAC to deliver fully aligned arts programming for the internal community of Meta employees for the purposes of team building and personal development. She currently teaches national online drawing and painting classes for Michaels and has a thriving studio practice out of her studio at Canopy in East Austin
Adrienne has been a featured art educator and guest speaker in the Visual Art Studies Program at the College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas, the Visual Art Center at the University of Texas, the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Women and Their Work, and Whole Foods. She has hosted a professional development seminar for secondary art educators in Killeen ISD. Adrienne has also been a featured artist in artist talks at Women and Their Work and the Georgetown Art Center. She has been spotlighted in the press by Austin Community College and Miller Imaging. Her monochromatic walnut ink work has been featured by Tom Norton Walnut Ink and she has worked as a representative of the Sennelier brand manufacturer under Savoir Faire.
Her portraits, skyscapes, and abstracted work can be found in the private collections of many notable collectors of contemporary art.
When doing the work of her heart, Adrienne is compulsively writing and researching. Storytelling is a prominent undercurrent in everything she does, and she sees collecting data as a very deliberate part of her personal narrative. She regularly audits college courses in physics and neuroscience to collect notes and imagery for her work. These ongoing scientific inquiries are coupled with a studious approach to her amateur hobbies like learning to play the guitar and film photography.
Adrienne grew up in a suburb of Houston, Texas, and moved to Austin in 2001 at the age of nineteen. She spent her early twenties working in a bookstore, her mid-twenties acquiring her degree in art education from the University of Texas, and several years thereafter teaching secondary art. After the birth of her first child in 2013, Adrienne committed herself to a daily art practice, and never looked back. She has been teaching community-based art to adults and maintaining a constant studio practice since 2014. The birth of her second child in 2016 only solidified her identity as an artist-mother. Motherhood drives her creative tendencies and her approach to art education and her personal work. Always learning and growing, she never stops challenging herself to seek out new paradigms while holding space for play and the desire to remain present. Her choice of ink as a primary medium is a metaphor for embracing the impermanence of life through permanent mark-making that requires constant problem solving, patience, and acceptance.