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Hannah Brancato

Freelance
Artist and Educator
Baltimore
Hannah Brancato (she/her) is an artist and educator based in Baltimore. She is co-founder of FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture, an art and organizing collective that creates creative interventions to disrupt rape culture. Founded in 2010 by and for survivors, FORCE is nationally known for producing large-scale public art campaigns, most notably, the Monument Quilt. Hannah was a 2015 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow to launch FORCE’s Baltimore based survivor collective, Gather Together, and as part of FORCE, is the recipient of the 2016 Sondheim Artscape Prize. She began to acknowledge her own experience as a survivor in 2008, while working with survivors of domestic and sexual violence at House Of Ruth Maryland. Her work with FORCE has received widespread media coverage, including Ms Magazine, the Washington Post, CNN, and Fast Company. Hannah is currently faculty at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). She is dedicated to mobilizing visual culture uproot and resist white supremacy, structural racism and rape culture.