Hannah K Freeman

EDUCATION

2019 MFA, Studio Art, Painting

University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN

2014 MA, Distinguished Graduate Student, Studio Art, Painting

2013 BFA summa cum laude, Art, Graphic Design 

Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL

PROFESSIONAL / TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2022-Present, Full-time Faculty, Assistant Professor (Painting, Drawing, Illustration, Digital Graphics), College of Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee, Faculty Advisor for Chi Alpha Campus Ministries, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, River Falls, WI

2020-2022, Full-time Faculty, Teaching Assistant Professor of Art, Painting and Foundations (Visual Foundations I, Painting II and III, Senior Projects in Painting, Graduate Seminar), Associate Member of the Graduate Faculty (Served on 4 Committees), Visiting Artist Committee, Student Exhibition Committee, School Recruitment and Retention Committee, Graphic Design Search Committee, College of Creative Arts Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity Committee, School of Art & Design, College of Creative Arts, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV

2019-2020, Full-time Faculty, Visiting Assistant Professor, Painting (Drawing I and II, Painting II and III, Senior Projects in Painting), Associate Member of the Graduate Faculty (Served on 3 Committees), Visiting Artist Committee, Student Exhibition Committee, School Recruitment and Retention Committee, School of Art & Design, College of Creative Arts, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV

2018-2019, Graduate Student Affiliate, Center for Theology, Science and Human Flourishing, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN

2017-2019, Instructor of Record, Drawing I, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 

2016-2017, Teaching Assistant, Painting I and Drawing I, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN

2016-2017, Guest Instructor, 3rd Thursdays at the Snite: Figure it Out, Figure Drawing, Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN

2017, Guest Instructor, Painting and Drawing, High School Art Day, West Lake Hall, Notre Dame, IN 

2017, Guest Instructor, Painting, Wine and Paint Night, Notre Dame, IN 

2014-2016, Full-time Faculty, Instructor of Graphic Design (Introduction to Graphic Design; Graphic Abstractions; Digital Art I and II; Typography I, II and IV; Graphic Design III), Associate Member of the Graduate Faculty (Served on 4 Committees), Social Media Coordinator, Recruitment Committee, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL

2013-2016, Substitute Teacher for Professor Chris Kahler (Painting I-III, Advanced Painting, Drawing III), Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL 

2014, Teaching Assistant for Professor Chris Kahler (Painting I-II), Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL

2013-2014, Graduate Teaching Assistant/Instructor (Introduction to Art), Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL 

FREELANCE GRAPHIC DESIGNER

October 2023-January 2024, Designer of the logo for Pharm & Home, IL

June 2019, Designer of the logo for Freeman Brothers Ranching, Jacksonville, IL

April 2019-May 2019, Designer of the logo for MissHennaMarie, Yorkville, IL

January 2017-March 2017, Designer of the logo for Dancing Hoofbeats, Jacksonville, IL

December 2012-March 2013, Designer of the logo for Crystal Lake Park Family Aquatic Center, Urbana Park District, Urbana, IL

Graphic Design Internship 

May 2012-August 2012, Graphic Design Intern, FreeMan Marketing, Saint Louis, MO

AWARDS / SCHOLARSHIPS / HONORS

2020, Faculty Travel/Development Grant, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV

University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN

2019, Striving for Excellence in College and University Teaching Certificate, The Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning

2018, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, Graduate Student Research Award 

Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL

2015, King-Mertz Distinguished Research/Creative Activity Award 

2014, Distinguished Graduate Student Award 

2013, Outstanding Senior Award, 2D Studio

2009-2013, Dean’s List College of Arts and Humanities 

2012-2013, Ruth C. Boyd Cook Memorial Award 

2010-2013, Talented Student Award in Art, Scholarship

2010, Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society

Juried Exhibition Awards 

2024, Distinction, Scenes & Places, Gallery 4%, San Francisco, CA (Juried International Online Exhibition)

2020, 3rd Place, Painting, The In Art Gallery, Online Gallery (Juror: Hagit Barkai)

2018, People’s Choice Award: Best Piece, Solarium Show, The Graduate School, Main Building, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN (Juried Exhibition, yearlong show) (catalog)

2018, Special Recognition, Special Merit, All Women Art Exhibition, Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery (Juried Exhibition)

2016, Certificate of Recognition, Wide Open 7, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (Juror: Beth Saunders) 

2014, First Place, 1st Annual Expanding Borders Exhibition, Brandenburg and Strickler Galleries, Olivet Nazarene University, Bourbonnais, IL (Juror: Sergio Gomez)

2013, Best of Show & Chairman’s Award, Undergraduate All-Student Art Show, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL (Juried Exhibition) 

2012, Best of Show, Illinois Art Education Association Autumn Art Show, Doudna Fine Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL (Juried Exhibition)

2012, Best of Show, Undergraduate All-Student Art Show, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL (Juried Exhibition)

2012, Best of Show & Honorable Mention, Salon Des Refuses Art Show, Doudna Fine Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL (Juried Exhibition)

2011, Honorable Mention, Illinois Art Education Association Autumn Art Show, Doudna Fine Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL (Juried Exhibition)

EXHIBITIONS

Solo Exhibitions

2024, Works on Paper: Memories, Offerings, & Drawings, Lift Bridge Brewing Company, New Richmond, WI

2021, Harmonize, Laura Mesaros Gallery, Canady Creative Arts Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpGRxZ4gbmc)

2021, Harmony, Saville Gallery, Allegany Arts Council, Cumberland, MD

2019, Thinking Beyond: A Precursor to Going Beyond, St. Joseph Gallery, Holy Cross College, Notre Dame, IN

2018, Hannah K Freeman, St. Joseph County Public Library, South Bend, IN 

2015, Retrospective & New Works, The David Strawn Art Gallery, Jacksonville, IL

Two/Three-Person Exhibitions

2024, Awakening, Featured Artists Show, Art's House, River Falls, WI

2015, Vantage Points: 2 Perspectives on Nature, Ober Anderson Gallery, Kirkwood, MO

Collaborative Projects

2017-2019, Prevalence: Sacred Spaces, Duncan Student Center, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN (Collaboration Lead Artist: Juan Sánchez, Other Collaborators: Jaz Graf, Heather Tucker, and 3 undergraduate students)

Group Exhibitions

2024, Call of the Wild, San Fernando Valley Arts & Cultural Center, Encino, CA (Juried International Online Exhibition; Juror: Scott Logan)

2024, Collective ALCHEMY IV, The Argyle Zebra Gallery, St. Paul, MN (Juried National Exhibition)

2024, The Power of Abstraction, Site:Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY (Juried International Online Exhibition) view the show

2024, 49th International Juried Art Show, Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, Brownsville, TX (Juror:  Alison de Lima Greene)

2024, Artists Who Teach, Ellington-White Contemporary Gallery in collaboration with Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, NC (Juried National Online Exhibition)

2024, Distinction, Scenes & Places, Gallery 4%, San Francisco, CA (Juried International Online Exhibition)

2024, 1st Annual Member’s Show, Art’s House, River Falls, WI

2024, Art Unleashed, Art Mozaik Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (Juried National Exhibition)

2024, Nature Exhibition, Naturalist Gallery of Contemporary Art, District of Columbia (Juried International Online Exhibition) 

2023, Small Works, Strata Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (Jurors: Jennifer Van, Stephanie Jacinto, and David Olivant)

2023, Autumn Landscapes, The Hummingbird and Dragonfly Art Gallery, Riverside, CA (Juried International Online Exhibition)

2023, Abstract Art, Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA (Juried International Online Exhibition)

2023, Spectacular Landscapes, KBM Art Gallery, Riverside, CA (Juried Online Exhibition)

2023, The Art of Spread Eagle, Spread Eagle Chain of Lakes Association, Chippewa Club, Iron Mountain, MI (Juried Exhibition)

2023, ARTIFACT [BOLD], Darrell E. Sechrest Gallery of Art, Hayworth Fine Arts Center, High Point University, High Point, NC (Juror: Kelli Anderson)

2023, Spiritual Visions, Fine Art Gallery, Fontbonne University, St. Louis, MO (Juried Exhibition)

2022, Faculty Exhibition, Gallery 101, Kleinpell Fine Arts, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, River Falls, WI

2022, Touch Me, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL

2021, Art First: Works by the WVU School of Art & Design Faculty, The Parkersburg Art Center, Parkersburg, WV

2020, 3rd Place, Painting, The In Art Gallery, Online Gallery (Juror: Hagit Barkai)

2020, Another Moment in Time, Old Town Arts and Crafts Guild, Inc., Cutchogue, NY (Juror: Seung Lee)

2020, 7th Annual Abstract Sanctuary, Verum Ultimum Art Gallery, Portland, OR (Juried Exhibition) (catalog)

2020, Small Works Juried Exhibition, Kent State University Downtown Gallery, Kent, OH (Juror: Gianna Commito)

2020, Open Theme Annual 2020, Webster Arts, St. Louis, MO (Juror: Melody Evans)

2019, TRANSCENDENCE, Manifest Gallery, Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, OH (Juried Exhibition)

2019, PAINTED BIENNIAL, Manifest Gallery, Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, OH (Juried Exhibition) (catalog)

2019, 20th Annual Will’s Creek Exhibition of Fine Art, Saville and Schwab Galleries, Allegany Arts Council, Cumberland, MD (Juror: Jack Rasmussen)

2019, Going Beyond: Using the Finite to Think About the Infinite, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, IN

2018, 40th Annual Whitewater Valley Art Competition, Tom Thomas and Meijer Artway Galleries, Whitewater Hall, Indiana University East, Richmond, IN (Jurors: Peg Faimon, Betsy Stirratt, and Maxim Weintraub)

2018, State of the Art: Art of the State, Prairie Arts Council, Rensselaer, IN (Jurors: Doug Calisch and Louie Laskowski) 

2018, People’s Choice Award: Best Piece, Solarium Show, The Graduate School, Main Building, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN (Juried Exhibition, yearlong show) (catalog)

2018, #thisisart, AAHD Gallery, O’Shaughnessy Hall, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN

2018, Valdosta National 2018, Dedo Maranville Fine Arts Gallery, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA (Juror: Linda Hall)

2018, Artlink Regional Exhibition, Artlink Contemporary Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN (Juror: Danielle Riede)

2018, Special Recognition, Special Merit, All Women Art Exhibition, Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery (Juried Exhibition) 

2017, Solarium Show, The Graduate School, Main Building, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN (Juried Exhibition, yearlong show) (catalog)

2017, Conroe Art League 2017 Invitational Show, The Conroe Art League, Conroe, TX (Juror: Cynthia Reid)

2016-2017, New Faces Exhibition, AAHD Gallery, O’Shaughnessy Hall, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN

2016, Atypical Topographies, Cloyde Snook Gallery, Adams State University, Alamosa, CO (Juried Exhibition)

2016, Still Life – Past, Present, Future, uBe Art, Berkeley, CA (Juried Exhibition) 

2016, Summer Solstice Art Exhibition, Summer Solstice Indie Music and Craft Beer Festival, Sense of Samadhi Yoga Studio, Yorkville, IL (Curator: Teala Irons)

2016, Certificate of Recognition, Wide Open 7, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (Juror: Beth Saunders) 

2016, Trending: Contemporary Art Now!, Online Exhibition, Women’s Caucus for Art, New York, NY (Juror: Elizabeth Garvey) (catalog)

2015, Art Faculty Exhibition, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL 

2015, 2015 Bank of the Arts, Craven Arts Council and Gallery, Inc., New Bern, NC (Juror: John Beerman) (catalog)

2015, 10x10x10xTieton, Tieton Arts and Humanities, Tieton, WA (Jurors: Sharon Arnold and Jerry Beck) (catalog) 

2015, Cape Fear Studios 2015 Annual National 2D Exhibit, Cape Fear Studios, Fayetteville, NC (Juror: Dee Beard Dean) 

2015, 2015 Michigan Fine Arts Competition – 33rd Annual, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI (Juror: Joseph Winterhalter)

2015, Sequim Arts 2015 Juried Show, Sequim Arts and the Museum and Arts Center, Sequim, WA (Juror: Robin Anderson)

2015, Shape and Shadow, Mount Dora Center for the Arts, Mount Dora, FL (Juror: Stacy Barter)

2014, Pip Squeak, Northbrook Public Library, Northbrook, IL (Juried Exhibition) 

2014, First Place, 1st Annual Expanding Borders Exhibition, Brandenburg and Strickler Galleries, Olivet Nazarene University, Bourbonnais, IL (Juror: Sergio Gomez)

2014, Good and Evil, Art Saint Louis Gallery, Saint Louis, MO (Jurors: Tim Eberhardt and Nicole Dutton)

2014, Art Faculty Exhibition, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL

2014, Graduate Art Exhibition, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL

2013, Zenith: Selections from Eastern Illinois University’s Painting Program, Bicentennial Art Center & Museum, Paris, IL 

2013, Water Street Studios 4th Year Anniversary Show, Water Street Studios, Batavia, IL (Juror: Hennie Reynders)

2013, Six Artists Art Show, Indi Go Artist Co-Op, Champaign, IL

2013, It’s All Personal Art Show, Indi Go Artist Co-Op, Champaign, IL (Curator: Teala Irons)

2013, Best of Show & Chairman’s Award, Undergraduate All-Student Art Show, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL (Juried Exhibition) 

2012, Best of Show, Illinois Art Education Association Autumn Art Show, Doudna Fine Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL (Juried Exhibition)

2012, Best of Show, Undergraduate All-Student Art Show, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL (Juried Exhibition) 

2012, Best of Show & Honorable Mention, Salon Des Refuses Art Show, Doudna Fine Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL (Juried Exhibition)

2011, Honorable Mention, Illinois Art Education Association Autumn Art Show, Doudna Fine Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL (Juried Exhibition)

2011, Undergraduate All-Student Art Show, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL (Juried Exhibition) 

2010, Undergraduate All-Student Art Show, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL (Juried Exhibition) 

Other Displays of Work

2016-Present, Chris Kahler’s Office, Department Chair, Department of Art and Design, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL

2018, Center for Theology, Science and Human Flourishing, Flanner Hall, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN

2018, Art Office, Department of Art, Art History and Design, Riley Hall of Art, Notre Dame, IN 

2018, Duncan Student Center, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN

2018, Department of Music, O’Neill Hall of Music, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN

2017-2018, Caleb Freeman’s Office, Director of Customer Experience, Peppercomm, New York, NY

COMMISSIONS

2020, Donation Boxes, Kind Mind Gathering, Michael Todd Fink, Yorkville, IL

2016, painting, oil on glass, Florence, WI

2014, Vision album cover, painting (30 x 30 in.), oil on panel, Brent Brown Music, Naperville, IL

BIBLIOGRAPHY / PRINT MEDIA / WEBSITE PUBLICATIONS

The Keller Prize. October 2022. https://www.thekellerprize.com/artist-galleries-a-f-1/freeman%2C-hannah.

Friend of The Artist. Studio Image Project: Americas II. October 4, 2021. https://www.friendoftheartist.com/americas-ii. 

Freeman, Hannah K. “Hannah K Freeman: Inside the Artist’s Studio.” By Allegany Arts Council. Allegany Arts Council, (Feb. 2021). Email blast.

Cutshall, Jennifer Gillia. “INSIDE the ABSTRACT, post #4: Of Spheres & Building Blocks of abstraction (4 artists today).” Verum Ultimum Art Gallery (blog). April 4, 2020. 

Cutshall, Jennifer Gillia. 7th Annual Abstract Sanctuary, cover, 2. Portland, OR: Verum Ultimum Art Gallery, 2020. 

The Juggler: Literature, Art and Design at Notre Dame 87 (Fall 2018): 12-13, 22-23.

Freeman, Hannah. “Fusing Romantic Landscape Painting and Abstract Surrealism: An Interview with Hannah K. Freeman.” By Laura Donnelly. Center for Theology, Science and Human Flourishing, (Oct. 2018). 

The Juggler: Literature, Art and Design at Notre Dame 86 (Spring 2018): 30.

The Graduate School. Solarium 2018, 5. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame, 2018.

Claudius Speaks. Fever, no. 5 (blog). January 18, 2018.

The Graduate School. Solarium 2017, 10. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame, 2017.

Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center. INPA 6: Manifest International Painting Annual, 71. Cincinnati, OH: Manifest Press, 2016.

Christine Agro, ed. Nature Inspired: Spring 2016, 21, 23, 117. Pleasant Valley, NY: Falling Leaves Press, 2016.

Women’s Caucus for Art. Trending: Contemporary Art Now!, 77. Charleston, SC: Women’s Caucus for Art, 2015.

Craven Arts Council and Gallery, Inc. Art Inspires Poetry: An Anthology of Ekphrastic Poems and the Art that Inspired Them, 43. New Bern, NC: Craven Arts Council, 2015. 

Tieton Arts and Humanities, Mighty Tieton Warehouse Gallery. 10x10x10xTieton, 55. Tieton, WA: Tieton Arts & Humanities and Marquand Editions, 2015.  

Journal-Courier Staff. “It Looks Real – Until it Doesn’t: Meaning Tucked in Still Lifes.” Jacksonville Journal-Courier (January 8, 2015): 1B. 

“Illinois Artist of the Month: Hannah K. Freeman.” I Like Illinois, January 21, 2015.

LECTURES / WORKSHOPS

2023-2024, Drawing Workshop & Field Trip: How to Draw [Rocks], part 2, with Dr. Kevin Thaisen’s Mineralogy course + my Illustration course, Devil’s Punchbowl/Willow River State Park, Menomonie/Hudson, WI

2023-2024, Drawing Workshop: How to Draw [Rocks], part 1, with Dr. Kevin Thaisen’s Mineralogy course + my Illustration course, Plant and Earth Science Department, Agricultural Science Building, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, River Falls, WI

2022-2024, Drawing Workshop: Sketching Perspective, with Dr. Chris Holtkamp’s Sustainable Urban Design course, Plant and Earth Science Department, Agricultural Science Building, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, River Falls, WI

2021, Artist Lecture, Bloch Hall, Canady Creative Arts Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV

2021, Artist Talk, “Working in Harmony: Exploring Visual & Thematic Connections,” Allegany Arts Council, Cumberland, MD

2015, Workshop, “Explore Oil Painting,” The David Strawn Art Gallery, Jacksonville, IL, March 14.

2015, Artist Talk, The David Strawn Art Gallery, Jacksonville, IL, January 10. 

ARTIST RESIDENCIES / RETREATS

2023, Pacem in Terris Hermitage Retreat Center, Isanti, MN (May 15-17, 2023) 

VOLUNTEER WORK

2024-Present, Rider Support Specialist, Help Boardshop & JSAW Action Sports Ministries, Edina, MN

2023-Present, Member of Prayer Team and Love We Do (community outreach program), Journey Church, River Falls, WI

2019-2023, Mentor, EIU Graduate School Mentorship Program, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL (Mentees: MA Candidates in 2D Studio: Painting, Drawing, Printmaking)

2020, Mentor, University of Notre Dame Alum

TECHNICAL ABILITIES

Adobe Creative Cloud  

Microsoft Office Suite

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

2015-Present, Member, The Art Association of Jacksonville, Jacksonville, IL

2013-2017, Member, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL