FEATURED MOVER | Brook Simmons, DuClaw Brewing Company

Baltimore-based DuClaw Brewing Company announced Brook Simmons has been promoted to vice president of sales.

Previously, Simmons was sales manager for the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest territories. With 20 years of industry experience, Simmons will support the mid-sized brewery’s continued growth.

Simmons has a background in art and teaching, graduating from The Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting and his Master of Fine Arts from Pennsylvania State University where he taught after graduating before returning to the beer industry.

Outside of work, he puts his art background to good use by working with local businesses who are interested in featuring art on their buildings. He welcomes neighborhood youth, particularly in disenfranchised neighborhoods, to lend a hand in the beautification process. Most notably, he helped organized a three-day event featuring 150 visual artists to benefit the Loading Dock, a nonprofit organization in Baltimore.

ABOUT BROOK SIMMONS

Resides in:

Baltimore

Education: 

Worthington Kilbourne, High School; Ohio State University, BFA, painting; Penn State University, MFA, painting.

If you had not chosen your current profession, what profession would you choose and why?

If I wasn’t working for DuClaw, I’d be creating public art to beautify underserved neighborhoods and engage local kids to be part of the process.

Recent vacation:

I recently traveled to upstate New York to see my parents, which marks the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began that I’ve seen them in person.

When I want to relax, I … :

Practice calligraphy, which is one of my favorite ways to create a Zen space. I’m also a really big fan of the B’more flea market, a mobile market at Peabody Heights Brewery that my friend helps coordinate on Sundays.

Favorite book:

“Stoney Knows How,” which is about a tattoo artist who worked in my hometown of Columbus, Ohio.

Favorite quotation: 

“The standard is the standard” – Coach Mike Tomlin, Pittsburgh Steelers