About Hannah Burr
Hannah Burr is a Boston artist and author who lives and works in Ann Arbor MI. She's been sharing on themes of creative and contemplative practice as a contemporary artist since 2007. She has written four artist books since 2013. The most recent one, arriving in March 23rd of 2021, is a brand new Contemporary Prayers to Whatever Works, for our brave new world circumstances, with 80 new ink and brush artworks in 80 new non relgious prayers to nothing-in-particular.
Good Bonfire is her blog for exploring ways of grounding in the body, staying present in all manner of shit storm, drawing from her creative, contemplative and coaching practices.
The first book written in 2013, Contemporary Prayers to * [whatever works], has found its way into over 50 museum shops in 27 states, has sold out of its first printing and is well into the second. The second in the series, Help me [ ], do the thing. is a sister companion to the first: both are direct and intimate books of prayer or petition addressed to a swish of ink or bits of tape, within the prayer itself. Book 2 has its own visual language and tone, and the same shape, size and concept as book 1. Her third book the Elements: a love letter to all things everywhere came out in 2019 and is a compendium of the elements of the periodic table, and serves both as a comprehensive guide to every object, part of the body, and part of space where it's encountered, and a poem in ink and pencil to each one.
Hannah speaks, teaches, and leads workshops on the overlap of creative and contemplative practice, around the country. She is a former Massachusetts Cultural Council and Berkshire Taconic Foundations Award Winner and MacDowell Colony Fellow, and her artwork has been on view at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Currier Museum NH, and the Drawing Center NY, as well as in galleries around the country and internationally.
Burr’s artwork bridges etheric and the mundane in tactile ‘poems’ of physical stuff and unlikely juxtapositions. The work is instantly *grock-able* and allows the viewer or reader to engage at depth. You can see more and learn more through her main website hannahburr.com
Good Bonfire is her blog for exploring ways of grounding in the body, staying present in all manner of shit storm, drawing from her creative, contemplative and coaching practices.
The first book written in 2013, Contemporary Prayers to * [whatever works], has found its way into over 50 museum shops in 27 states, has sold out of its first printing and is well into the second. The second in the series, Help me [ ], do the thing. is a sister companion to the first: both are direct and intimate books of prayer or petition addressed to a swish of ink or bits of tape, within the prayer itself. Book 2 has its own visual language and tone, and the same shape, size and concept as book 1. Her third book the Elements: a love letter to all things everywhere came out in 2019 and is a compendium of the elements of the periodic table, and serves both as a comprehensive guide to every object, part of the body, and part of space where it's encountered, and a poem in ink and pencil to each one.
Hannah speaks, teaches, and leads workshops on the overlap of creative and contemplative practice, around the country. She is a former Massachusetts Cultural Council and Berkshire Taconic Foundations Award Winner and MacDowell Colony Fellow, and her artwork has been on view at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Currier Museum NH, and the Drawing Center NY, as well as in galleries around the country and internationally.
Burr’s artwork bridges etheric and the mundane in tactile ‘poems’ of physical stuff and unlikely juxtapositions. The work is instantly *grock-able* and allows the viewer or reader to engage at depth. You can see more and learn more through her main website hannahburr.com