Hannah Demma
hannahdemma.com
Instagram: @HannahDemma
Lincoln, NE
Education
2019-2022 MFA University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Printmaking
2014-2017 BFA University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Studio Arts
Leadership and Professional Experience
2024 Artist Liaison, Lux Center for the Arts, Lincoln, NE
Head Papermaker, Constellation Studios, Lincoln, NE
Executive Director, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE
2023 Executive Director, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE
Coordinator, Art at Cedar Point Biological Station, Ogallala, NE
Head Papermaker, Constellation Studios, Lincoln, NE
2022 Nebraska Master Naturalist Certification
Graduate Instructor of Record, Beginning Printmaking, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Spring)
Coordinator, Art at Cedar Point Biological Station, Ogallala, NE
2021 Graduate Instructor of Record, Life Drawing, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Fall)
Graduate Instructor of Record, Life Drawing, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Spring)
Coordinator, Art at Cedar Point Biological Station, Ogallala, NE
Graduate Student Advisory Board Member
UCARE Research Fair Judge
2020 Graduate Instructor of Record, Color and Composition, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Fall)
Graduate Instructor of Record, Drawing 101, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Spring)
Education Liaison, Arts are Basic through Doane College, Summer Camp at Culler Middle School
Coordinator, Art at Cedar Point Biological Station, Ogallala, NE
Graduate Student Advisory Board Member
UCARE Grant Reviewer
Commission for Printmaking Edition for Nebraska Young Artist Awards
2019 Education Liaison, Arts are Basic through Doane College, Summer Camp at Culler Middle School
Studio Manager for Karen Kunc, Constellation Studios, Lincoln, NE
Coordinator, Art at Cedar Point Biological Station, Ogallala, NE
Education Officer at Sculpture in the Wild, Lincoln, Montana, Sept 9-28
Screen-Printing Workshop Instructor, UNL Textiles Merchandising & Fashion Design for LPS Students
2018 Education Officer at Sculpture in the Wild, Lincoln, Montana,Sept. 10-29
Studio Manager for Karen Kunc, Constellation Studios, Lincoln,NE
Wilderness First Responder Certification, Wilderness Medicine Training Center
Coordinator, Art at Cedar Point Biological Station, Ogallala, NE
Outdoor Education, Trip Leader, UNL Outdoor Adventures
2017 Coordinator, Art at Cedar Point Biological Station
Selected Volunteer, Sculpture in the Wild, under artist Patrick Dougherty September 18-24, Lincoln, MT
Outdoor Educator/Trip Leader, UNL Outdoor Adventures
Art and Science Camp teacher at Cedar Point Biological Station, Ogallala, NE
Selected Volunteer, Sculpture in the Wild, under artist Jaako Pernu June 18-23, Lincoln,MT
Commission for Printmaking Edition for Nebraska Young Artist Awards
2016 Printmaking workshop at Folk and Roots Festival, Branched Oak Farm,
Lincoln, NE
Art and Science Camp teacher at Cedar Point Biological Station, Ogallala, NE
Commission for Printmaking Edition for Nebraska Young Artist Awards
Exhibitions
2024 Stellar Small Prints 3, group, Constellation Studios, Lincoln, NE
Joslyn Auction Luncheon, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
Benefit Art Auction, Bemis Center, Omaha, NE
Fiber in 3D, group, William D. Cannon Gallery, Carlsbad, CA
Here and After, two-person show with Matel Rokke, Turbine Flats Resonator Gallery, Lincoln, NE
Good on Paper, two-person show with Karen Kunc, Metropolitan Community College Gallery of Art and Design, Elkhorn, NE
Come On, Come Over, group, Elder Gallery, Wesleyan University, Lincoln, NE
PAPER, group, Constellation Studios, Lincoln, NE
2023 Paper Tide, Peru State College A.V. Larson Art Gallery, Peru, NE
Benefit Art Auction, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
My Salinity, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, Nebraska City, NE
Soft Shapes, group, Burkholder Project Gallery, Lincoln,NE
2022 Prism Cell, Project Project Gallery, Omaha, NE
Benefit Art Auction, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
Foraging, Manhattan Arts Center, Manhattan, KS
Future Tense, Kiechel Fine Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE
Gallery 9 Invitational, Gallery 9, Lincoln, NE
June Guest Artist, Gateway to the Arts, Lincoln, NE
Salt in Our Bones, Thesis Exhibition, Eisentrager-Howard Gallery, Lincoln, NE
Lux Center Annual Fundraiser Exhibition, Lux Center for the Arts, Lincoln, NE
2021 Fall Fundraiser Exhibition, Tugboat Gallery, Lincoln,NE
Shallows, Solo, Carnegie Arts Center, Alliance, NE
2020 Now: Work From the School of Art, Art History, and Design, Kiechel Fine Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE
Spirit: A Celebration of Art in the Heartland, Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, NE
Etch 20: 20 Pandemic Reactions, Roberta & Bob Rogers Gallery, Omaha, NE
2019 Inflorescence, Solo, Lux Art Gallery, Lincoln,NE
Artist Showcase, Solo, Lost in Float, Lincoln,NE
Stellar Small Prints 2, Constellation Studios, Lincoln,NE
2018 Invented Biology, Home and Closet, Lincoln,NE
Here to Stay, Tugboat Gallery, Lincoln, NE
New Works Exhibition, Code Beer, Lincoln, NE
Spring Pop Up, Tsuru, Lincoln, NE
2017 Capstone Exhibition, Eisentrager-Howard Gallery, Lincoln, NE
New Works and Works in Progress, Medici Gallery, Lincoln, NE
The 30th Annual Undergraduate Studio Art Competition, Eisentrager-Howard Gallery, Lincoln, NE, Juried by Todd Tubutis
Nebraska Touring, Warren Opera House, Friend,NE, Prairie Arts Center, North Platte, NE, Studio K, Grand Island, NE
Undulation, Hot Mess, Lincoln, NE
Blackspace Launch, Turbine Flats, Lincoln, NE, group show
2016 Fifth Annual Nebraska National Undergraduate Juried Art Exhibition,
Eisentrager-Howard Gallery, Lincoln, NE, Juried by Shoku Teruyama, Deborah Luster, and Nicole Pietrantoni
2015 Objects,Boon Found and Made, Lincoln, NE (solo)
Ceramics, Open Critique Space, Richards Hall, Lincoln, NE
Cookie Time, Medici Gallery, Lincoln, NE
$150 and Under Group Show, Spatium Gallery, Lincoln, NE
Balanced Pedestrian, Tugboat Gallery, Lincoln, NE
The 28th Annual Undergraduate Studio Art Competition, Eisentrager-Howard Gallery, Lincoln, NE, Juried by Wally Mason
16x16x16, University of Colorado-Denver, Denver, CO, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, University of Kansas Lawrence,
Lawrence, KS, Metropolitan Community College, Omaha, NE, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Lincoln, NE
Awards and Honors
2024 Mid-America Arts Alliance Artist Leadership Fellow
Award of Excellence, Lincoln Arts Festival
2023 Best of Show, Lincoln Arts Festival
Best of Show, Sioux City Art Splash Festival, Sioux City, IA
2022 Best of Show, Lincoln Arts Festival
Emerging Artist Award, Lincoln Arts Festival
Francis William Vreeland Award in Art
Hixson-Lied Fellowship
2021 Hixson-Lied Fellowship
Dan and Barbara Howard Creative Achievement Award
2020 Hixson-Lied Fellowship
2019 Hixson-Lied Fellowship
Halcyon Allsman Fellowship
Meyers & Martha H. Cather Fellowship
2018 Kimmel Foundation Emerging Artist Residency Honoree
Mayor’s Art Award Winner
2017 Perry Family Award Recipient, Capstone Exhibition
Thomas P. Coleman Memorial Award/Scholarship in Printmaking Recipient
Dan and Barbara Howard Creative Achievement Award and the Francis Vreeland Awards Competition Nominee
UNL High Scholar
Jean. R. Faulkner Memorial Award
UNL UCARE (Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experience) Grant Recipient
2016 Dan and Barbara Howard Creative Achievement Award and the Francis
Vreeland Awards Competition Nominee
N. and J. Hills Scholarship
Leonard and Ida Selling Fund Scholarship
UNL UCARE (Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experience) Grant Recipient, Studio Assistantship to Professor
Santiago Cal
2015 Elgas Promise Award Recipient
Curation
2023 Gone Like That, Tugboat Gallery, Lincoln, NE
Cedar Point Biological Station Artist-in Residence Alumni Exhibition, Turbine Flats Resonator Gallery, Lincoln,NE
Collections
Coleman Collection, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
Kimmel Collection, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, Nebraska City, NE
Publications
2024 Fiber Art Now, Spring Issue
Artist-in-Residence
2025 Cornhusker Marriott Hotel Artist-in-Residence, 1 year
2021 Gaptoothed Studios, Papermaking, Montgomery City, MO
2019 Lost in Float, Lincoln, NE, November
Visiting Artist, Maxey Elementary, Lincoln, NE, February
2018 Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, Nebraska City, Nebraska, Nov. 5-16