Hannah O'Hare Bennett

Hannah O’Hare Bennett is an artist, papermaker and educator based in Madison WI. She holds a BFA in Printmaking from the University of Kansas (1998) and an MFA in Design Studies from the University of Wisconsin Madison (2017).  Between those degrees, she worked as a farmer, Peace Corps Volunteer (Ecuador, 2004-2006), and produce manager, manual labor that informs her subject matter and manner of creating art.  She has done many residencies in the last three years, including at Women’s Studio Workshop (NY), StudioWorks at the Tides Institute (ME), and The Textile Arts Center in Manhattan, and has taught at the Morgan Conservatory and the Minnesota Center for Book Arts.  Her work has been shown across the country in group and solo shows, and has been featured in the Surface Design Association Journal. In 2019, her work was selected for inclusion in Handpapermaking Magazine’s Portfolio 13, In Between. She has served on the board of North American Hand Papermakers and currently edits the organization publication, Bull & Branch.