Baker Artist Portfolios

Hannah Brancato (she/her) is an artist and educator based in Baltimore, who is dedicated to mobilizing visual culture to uproot and resist white supremacy and rape culture. Most recently, she was awarded the MICA Brenner Grant and named Montgomery College’s Fall 2021 Artist in Residence. She is currently teaching a collective research based class called Art x Resistance, a course of her own design to investigate and document the role of art in social change.

Hannah is co-founder of FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture and was part of the collective until 2020. FORCE is an art and organizing collective that produces creative interventions to disrupt rape culture and build a culture of consent. 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. Together, they created Advocate Through Art, an awareness campaign by and for domestic violence survivors. Her work with FORCE has received widespread media coverage, including Afterimage, Ms Magazine, Voice of America, Bmore Art, the Washington Post, MSNBC, Surface Design Journal, and Fast Company.

Brancato is currently faculty at Maryland Institute College of Art, Towson University and UMBC. In all of her work, she challenges viewers and participants to make connections between personal experience and social injustices and realities.