Hannah O'Hare Bennett: Studio Tour and Ecuadorian Craft Sale

Name: Hannah O'Hare Bennett: Studio Tour and Ecuadorian Craft Sale
Start: 2025-02-22T11:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-02-22T17:00:00-06:00
Location: Arts + Literature Laboratory

Schedule

Sat Feb 22 2025 at 11:00 am to 05:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Arts + Literature Laboratory | Madison, WI

Hannah O'Hare Bennett will hold a studio tour, gallery talk, and Ecuadorian craft sale on Saturday, February 22 from 11:00am to 5:00pm. The event will begin in Bennett's studio on the third floor of Arts + Literature Laboratory, then move to the first floor performance gallery.
11:00am: Bennett will give an informal talk and demonstration about the process she uses to develop her work.
12:00pm–5:00pm: Bennett will hold a sale featuring her own art pieces as well as a collection of fair trade Ecuadorian craft products. One group to be represented will be Intag Sisal, who make bags and other pieces out of cabuya (avave) fiber. Check here for further updates as the date approaches.
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.