E. Antoinette Hale was an American painter.
Hale was born in Roanoke, Virginia. She attended Virginia State University where she graduated with a degree in sociology. She became a social worker. She took painting classes in Los Angeles, California at the defunct L & E School of Fine Arts in the 1970s. [1]
She started painting full-time when she retired. Her work has been exhibited at the Harrison Museum of African American Culture, [2] Mary Baldwin University [1] and Virginia Tech. [3]
Curators at the Harrison Museum of African American Culture call Hale "one of the most important artists working in the Roanoke Valley in the late 20th century." [2]