February 11, 2020

East Central Community College art instructor Jeffrey Hodges has been named the college’s 2019 Humanities Instructor of the Year and will present “Forms and Narratives in Art,” a special program beginning at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020, in the Vickers Fine Arts Center auditorium on the Decatur campus. The event is free and open to the public.

During his presentation, Hodges will present a special lecture on highlighted works of art from his research trips to Paris, France, as well as Boston and Chicago. He will lecture on an array of significant pieces of work from the cities. The lecture will focus on the narratives, concepts, and processes behind the selected works from premier museums each location has to offer.

Hodges has served as the art instructor at East Central since 2015. He previously taught painting at the University of South Carolina. He graduated magna cum laude with his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in studio art from Memphis College of Art in 2011 and a Master of Fine Arts degree in studio art from the University of South Carolina in 2014. During his graduate studies, he received a scholarship to the International Centre for the Arts at Monte Castello di Vibio in Italy.

Hodges has had six solo exhibitions since 2013 and 24 group exhibitions since 2007. He has also been featured as a guest lecturer at numerous colleges, including Copiah-Lincoln Community College in Wesson and Hinds Community College in Jackson. In the fall of 2019, he held an exhibition with Hinds art instructor LeeReyna Lopez Leyva at Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, Iowa.

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