Scott Hodes

          In December of 1992, Scott Hodes, from Nashville, Tennessee, graduated from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He received a Bachelors of Science in art, with an emphasis in glass and neon. Upon graduation, he pursued his dream of art and attended Tennessee Technological University’s Appalachian Center for Crafts in Smithville, Tennessee. From the spring of 1993 through the spring of 1994, Mr. Hodes studied glass with Curtis Brock and James Van Deurzen, and blacksmithing with Robert Coogan. Following this, Hodes spent 1994-96 in the Master of Fine Arts program at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. At Kent he studied under Henry Halem’s instruction. After graduate school, in 1996, Scott established Chaos Glass and Metalworks and built it from the ground up. Since completion he has been operating and maintaining this hot glass and metalworking studio in Bon Aqua, Tennessee.

          For years, Hodes did many, fine art and craft shows and has won numerous awards. Scott traveled as far north as the Berkshires, as west as Chicago, as east as Virginia Beach and as south as Boca Raton. In those years, his work sold in galleries all throughout those described geographical parameters. In recent years, Hodes has limited the galleries, which represent him to: The Frist Center for the Visual Art in Nashville, Tennessee, Village Fine Art Gallery in Knoxville, Tennessee, and the Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi in Jackson, Mississippi.

          Currently, Hodes, the family man, stays close to home, and he does roughly, four shows a year. Now most of his work must be commissioned, and he has a strong focus on architectural enhancement, such as sinks and lights.   Scott’s work has been shown at Disney’s Festival of the Masters, the Tennessee Governor’s Inaugural Ball, and featured on NPT’s Tennessee Crossroads television program. His work also is found at the Tennessee Governor’s Residence and in the permanent collection of the Tennessee Arts Commission. Scott has been a long time member of both TACA, Tennessee Association of Crafts Artists, and the Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi. He currently sits on the board of the Arts Council of Williamson County as Director of Visual Arts, and has received funding from the Tennessee Arts Commission and TACA to participate as a “master” in the first Tennessee Master Craft Artist/ Apprentice program for 2010. Scott Hodes is dedicated to a belief in the importance of art in everyone’s daily lives and strives to help foster this belief in others.

Cumberland Valley TACA

Scott Hodes