Hollis Hammonds is an American artist and academic, who is associate professor of art and chair of visual studies at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas.

"As traumatic and devastating as it was, Hammonds remembers the rather surreal calm that emerged as they waited for the firetrucks to come from the other side of the county.

The family's defunct cars as well as a school bus and even heavy equipment such as a bulldozer, littered the woods behind the home, their eviscerated frames a perfect playscape for an imaginative, solitary child."

[4] Hammonds states "My works are filled with a variety of images, from mundane objects to precious artifacts, assembled, collected and collaged together through drawings and installations.

[10] Hammonds maintains a studio at the Canopy arts complex in South Austin, Texas and she is working on a graphic novel.

Questioning consumerist culture through evidence of accumulation, hoarding and collecting, piles of debris and trash fill my drawings and installations.

Currently, through a memoir style graphic novel project called Blanket of Fog, I'm combining my own childhood memories with my interests in consumerist culture and environmental issues.

[5] The same year she spoke on a panel about drawing at the CAA conference with artists Jane Hammond, Richard Moninski and Elise Engler.