Scott Hodes

Glass

Hand-blown glass Ice Bucket

Hand-blown glass Whiskey Cups

Hand-blown glass Decanter

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 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. 

After graduate school, in 1996, Scott established Chaos Glass and Metalworks and built it from the ground up.  Hodes' work has been shown at Disney’s Festival of the Masters, the Tennessee Governor’s Inaugural Ball, the Nashville Airport and featured on NPT’s Tennessee Crossroads television program.  His work is also found in the permanent collections of the Tennessee Governor’s Residence, the Tennessee Arts Commission, and the Tennessee State Museum.  Scott has been on numerous committees and on the board of TACA, Tennessee Association of Crafts Artists. He has earned fellowship in 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 had implemented and ran the lecture series ART:  UP CLOSE & PERSONAL for 7 years.  Hodes received funding from the Tennessee Arts Commission and Tennessee Craft to participate as a “master” in the first Tennessee Master Craft Artist/ Apprentice program for 2010, and again for the 2013-14 program.  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