Hannah Chalew is a visual artist whose work explores what it means to live in an age of global warming with an uncertain future, and specifically what that means in Southern Louisiana. She uses a variety of renewable resources in her work, from recycled materials to solar panels and rain-water harvesting, so that the medium is also the message. Ranging from works on paper to large-scale installation, her work challenges viewers to think critically about their complicity in our collective new climate realities and examine their place in the broader ecosystem while also creating space to imagine what else could be possible now and beyond. Besides showing in museums and galleries, her work has been installed over long periods in New Orleans City Park and Longue Vue House and Gardens.
