Hannah O'Hare Bennett

Hannah O’Hare Bennett is an artist, experimental 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 current subject matter and manner of creating art. Since completing her MFA she has had residencies at institutions such as Women's Studio Workshop, Penland School of Craft, Playa Summer Lake, and Studioworks at the Tides Institute, taught papermaking workshops at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Pyramid Atlantic, the Paper and Book Intensive, the Morgan Conservatory and more, and exhibited work in group and solo shows across the country. She has taught college courses at Mount Mary University, University of Montana Western, and the University of Wisconsin Madison. Currently she is the UW Madison campus Peace Corps recruiter, and maintains a deep craft informed art practice in her studio at Arts & Literature Lab.