Joan Hodous earned her degree in fine arts and art education from the University of Delaware and is a graduate of the New York School of Interior Design and the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine.
While her husband attended dental school she taught art in the Baltimore school system. For many years she painted while raising a family in Bel Air, MD. She displayed her work along with that of the other artists at her own gallery, A Creative Place.
An activist and writer on women's issues in the '70's, she served for six years as the first head of the Harford County Commission on Women.
She recently had a one-woman show of 66 works at Bel Air, MD and two one-woman shows in Key West and had been the featured artist at the Key West Art & Historical Museum Custom House in 2009.
Joan also is an accomplished and published poet. Her paintings often move from grief through pain to elation, frequently mirroring her poetry. As one reviewer says, “Here, in this record of a long life, Hodous’ vibrant paintings show all the turbulence and vigor of her vision, while her accompanying poems make a quieter and more philosophical statement. Taken together, with the addition of a brief memoir, these two aspects of one women’s creative passion are an inspiration and a joy.”
Ms Hodous lives in Bel Air and Key West, Florida. Currently, the artist is represented by Gingerbread Square Gallery in Key West.
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