Hannah Newman is an interdisciplinary artist mining rocks, information technologies, sculpture, and language for their poetic possibilities. She has exhibited with galleries, and artist-run spaces across the U.S. and is a co-founder of the collective WAVE Contemporary and a former member of the artist-run gallery Carnation Contemporary. Newman received a Master of Fine Arts from Oregon College of Art and Craft and a B.S in Ceramics and Fine Arts from Indiana Wesleyan University. Newman currently teaches as an adjunct professor at Portland State University and serves as the Operations Manager for Gather:Make:Shelter an arts organization serving houseless populations in Portland, OR. She looks for spaces, communities and fellow artists with which to build intentional and inclusive culture.