Brodnax was born and reared in Dallas. She attended Southern Methodist University and studied under Olin Travis and Otis Dozier. She died in Dallas. She exhibited across the state including the following: Annual Allied Arts Exhibition, Dallas (1942-43), 1944-46 awards, 1947 honorable mention); Texas General Exhibition (1945-46); Annual Texas Artists Circuit Exhibition (1946); Texas Painting and Sculpture Annual Exhibition (1950,1955, 1956 purchase prize, 1958, 1959 award, 1960); D.D. Feldman Collection, Dallas (1955); Annual International Exhibition of Women Artists, Paris(1962); Beaumont Art Association; New Orleans Fine Arts Club; Dallas Society for Contemporary Arts (one-woman). Her works can be found in the Dallas Museum of Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art collections. She is affiliated with the Dallas Art Association; Museum League of Dallas and the Texas Fine Arts Association. Source: Texas Painters, Sculptors & Graphic Artists by John and Deborah Powers