Artists

Artists

Hannah Chalew

B. 1986, Baltimore, MD
Lives in New Orleans, LA

Venue

The Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans (CAC)

900 Camp Street
New Orleans, LA 70130-3908

Tuesdays, Closed

Wednesday–Monday, 11am–5pm

Neighborhood

About the Artist

Hannah Chalew is an artist, educator, and environmental activist raised and currently working in New Orleans. Her artwork explores what it means to live in an era of global warming with an uncertain future; it unearths the historical legacies that got us here to help imagine new possibilities for a livable future. This work is specifically rooted in Southern Louisiana as a microcosm of our shifting time.

Chalew received a BA from Brandeis University in 2009, and an MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2016. She has exhibited widely around New Orleans and has shown around the country at the Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO; Wave Hill, Bronx, NY; Minnesota Center for the Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN; Dieu Donné, New York, NY; among other venues. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, American Craft, BOMB, Hyperallergic, Burnaway, Hand Papermaking, the LA Times, The Boston Globe, and more. Chalew’s work is held in the collections of the City of New Orleans and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA. She is the 2022 South Arts Southern Prize winner as well as the South Arts Louisiana State Fellow.

Previous Works

Hannah Chalew, Bottomland Chimera, 2023.

Metal, sugarcane, disposable plastic waste, lime, recycled paint, paper made from sugarcane combined with shredded disposable plastic waste (“plasticane”), ink made from brick, copper, goldenrod, fossil fuel pollution, indigo, oak gall, and sheetrock, soil, living plants; 90 x 115 x 85 in. Image courtesy of the artist.

Hannah Chalew, Bottomland Chimera, 2023.

(detail), Metal, sugarcane, disposable plastic waste, lime, recycled paint, paper made from sugarcane combined with shredded disposable plastic waste (“plasticane”), ink made from brick, copper, goldenrod, fossil fuel pollution, indigo, oak gall, and sheetrock, soil, living plants; 90 x 115 x 85 in. Image courtesy of the artist.

Hannah Chalew, Palmate Cultivar, 2023.

Metal, paper made from sugarcane combined with shredded disposable plastic waste (“plasticane”), ink made from copper, goldenrod and indigo, thread; 65 x 45 x 42 in. Image courtesy of the artist.

Hannah Chalew, Feedback LOOP, 2022.

Handmade ink from iron, oak galls, coal pollution runoff, found sheetrock, goldenrod, copper, indigo on paper made from sugarcane and shredded disposable plastic waste (“plasticane”), metal; 80 x 100 x 27 in. Image courtesy of the artist.

Hannah Chalew, Feedback LOOP, 2022.

(detail), Handmade ink from iron, oak galls, coal pollution runoff, found sheetrock, goldenrod, copper, indigo on paper made from sugarcane and shredded disposable plastic waste (“plasticane”), metal; 80 x 100 x 27 in. Image courtesy of the artist.

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