ABOUT

Hannah Israel is the 2019 Blue Heron Artist-in-Residence.  She is a Professor of Art and the Gallery Director at Columbus State University.  While in the program, Hannah exhibited, Flutter, Wink, & Rustle: Intimate Conversations of Plants, at the Blue Heron Nature Preserve in Buckhead.  Israel is a conceptual artist who draws beauty out of tangible materials, reflecting the fragility of the world in her poetic works. In addition, Israel created an honors course at CSU, Great Conversations: Art and Nature.

 

Israel explains, “The nature of my work maps the relationship of our existence.  I communicate moments in my life by illustrating how fragile language can be and how predictable our experiences are based on the temperament of the world around us.”

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The exhibition ran through September 21 through December 31, 2019. The honors course ran through January 17 - May 5., 2019. She also juried, Listening to Waters, Site specific works in Blue Heron Nature Preserve for the Earth Day Festival, April 27, 2019.

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Contact: israel_hannah@columbusstate.edu

Website: hannahisrael.net