Peru State welcomes guest artist for Art Day

PERU  – Hannah Demma, an ocean-obsessed prairie dweller, received her Master of Fine Arts from the triply landlocked University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2022. Her mixed-media approach to art speaks to aspects of science and nature both familiar and strange, and mines the environment for inspiration, examining the intersection of the imaginative and the biological, of the creative and the empirical. Her process stirs the imagination and sparks excitement for exploration and adventure. 

In 2018 Hannah received a Mayor’s Art Award and during her MFA she was the recipient of the Dan and Barbara Howard Creative Achievement Award (2021) and the Francis William Vreeland Award in Art (2022). Hannah served as coordinator for the Cedar Point Biological Station art program, artist residency, and Art Adventure camp from 2017-2023. She currently works as Program Director for the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, an artist residency program in Nebraska City.

Hannah also works as a papermaker and papermaking instructor at Constellation Studios in Lincoln, NE. In addition to her directorship and teaching, Hannah has maintained a busy studio practice and exhibition schedule and looks forward to expanding her studio practice to include new mediums and collaborations.

 View Hannah’s artwork in the A.V. Larson Art Gallery all month long. Art gallery hours are Monday-Thursday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.