Hannah's profile
Hannah Atallah (Baltimore, MD) is a muralist, sculptor, and multidisciplinary artist.
Atallah has created murals and exhibited fine art across Baltimore, the US, Mexico, and Jordan, earning her recognition in the form of awards, grants, and public acquisitions.
Through her art, Atallah strives to explore cultural narratives and foster connections within local communities. She thematically constructs work by combining interviews and photoshoots of living cultural workers with archival research materials and techniques that stem from the rich artistic legacies of the Arab world.
Drawing on her Palestinian, Lebanese, and Irish heritage, she incorporates sacred geometrical motifs, symbolic motifs and Arabic calligraphy in her work. With thoughtful materials choices, she harnesses techniques like marquetry, rug making, and tatreez embroidery to reclaim imagery connected to Arab histories, cultures, and experiences while simultaneously attempting to imagine concepts that extend beyond the limitations of the present.
Ultimately, her work aims to honor lives that resist erasure and demand dignity.
