Visual Artist | Musician Robert Hodge and Magpies & Peacocks

You can often find Robert Hodge, featured Contemporary Arts Museum Houston visual artist and talented musician | producer, at our EADO design house working with reclaimed and recycled materials for his mixed media pieces. But art is not his only claim to fame – as executive producer for the art | music | history album Two & 1/2 Years: A Musical Celebration of Juneteenth Robert is the epitome of multi media talent. "Hodge" as he's affectionally known, is one of two artists in residency under our Artist In Nesting program and he will be collaborating with us this year on a textile project along with teaching workshops. Our next project with Hodge, based on his 'Destroy & Rebuild' collection, will be a series of deconstruct | reconstruct up-cycled pieces. Truly a man after our own hearts!

Robert Hodge was born in Houston, Texas and grew up in the historic Third Ward community. He graduated from the High School for the Performing and Visuals Arts in 1998 and attended Pratt Institute in New York and Atlanta College of Art before returning to Houston to pursue his career. Hodge has exhibited across the country, including throughout Texas, and internationally in Nairobi, Kenya. He is the recipient of a 2013 Joan Mitchell Foundation award for painters and sculptors, and this spring he was selected for the prestigious Skowhegan Summer Program.