Alyse-Ambriel Hanna is an interdisciplinary artist whose artwork addresses the importance of feminism, animal rights, and human ecology. Hanna earned her Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts at Boise State University in May 2024, a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Arts: Jewelry/Metals/Enameling in 2019 from Kent State University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Art Education in 2017 from Kent State University. She has exhibited her work through Surel’s Place, Jack’s Urban Meeting Place, The Keith and Catherine Stein Luminary, The Blue Galleries, Neri Gallery, and the Steuben Gallery at Pratt Institute for NYC Jewelry Week. Her work, Makeup Screens,  will be in a traveling show from January to August 2025, exhibiting at Umpqua Valley Arts, Chehalem Cultural Center, Pendleton Center for the Arts, and Newport Visual Arts Center. Hanna has been published in the book The Art of Fine of Enameling, Second Edition, by Karen L. Cohen,  published in 2019.  She won First Place in the 2023 All Women Artist virtual exhibition hosted by Contemporary Art Gallery Online in the category of Social Practice, the Presidential Scholar Award for her artwork Conceptus from Boise State University in 2023, and the 2023-2024 Boise State University Distinguished Master's Thesis/Capstone Project Award in the Creative, Visual and Performing Arts.

 

Hanna works interdisciplinary, utilizing photography, video, metalsmithing, and sculpture to create a conversation that empowers women and cultivates positive change within her community.  Her artwork explores interconnectedness, starting with human connection to the planet, non-human animals, and the complex connections humans have with one another.  By engaging in ecofeminism, political activism, beauty standards, and factory farming, her work often utilizes motifs deriving from nature, advertisements, and familiar man-made objects.  Hanna frequently offers the viewer a satirical entry point to challenging topics, allowing humor to act as a lubricant when the subject seems difficult to approach. 

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