Hannah Rae is a multidisciplinary artist from Minneapolis working in papermaking, printmaking and fiber arts. They are a current student at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design studying Print Paper Book and graduating in May 2024. 

Hannah’s work discusses themes of complicated family relationships, the difficult concept of home, and their deepening connection with the natural environment. They use intricate and laborious processes of print, paper, and fiber to unravel and understand their experiences, seeking to weave them back together into something that can be called home. They use materials from natural spaces that feel like fragments of home to them and through the process of working with these materials, feel more connected to the spaces they come from. 

Hannah’s most recent work combines techniques of papermaking and textile forms such as weaving and quilting. These works are large and intricate and made through a long and meditative process in which Hannah uses the geometry of quilts, patterns of weaving, and labor of papermaking to create space for their queer identity and healing process.