Somer Hahm
Education
2008 University of Alaska, Fairbanks / MFA - Painting and Drawing magna cum laude
2005 University of Montana, Missoula/ BFA - Painting and Drawing summa cum laude
Awards & Collections
2021 Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival “Artist of the Year”
2020 Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Project Award
2020 Alaska Chapter of the Awesome Foundation Grant Recipient
2020 Community Art Development Grant Recipient, Alaska State Council on the Arts
Solo Exhibitions
2020 The Painted Quilt, Wandering Bear Gallery Fairbanks Arts Association, Fairbanks AK
2014 Flock, Keller Allied Architecture and Arts, Fairbanks AK
2012 Birds of Paradise, Well Street Art Company, Fairbanks AK
2010 A Birds Eye View, Well Street Art Company, Fairbanks AK
2008 Loop Dreams, The Annex Art Space, Ester, AK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 UAF College of Liberal Arts - Art Faculty Exhibition, UAF Gallery, Fairbanks AK
2020 Alaska Biennial Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, Anchorage AK
2020 Members Exhibition, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage AK
2019 64th Parallel Juried Art Exhibition, Bear Gallery, Fairbanks AK
2019 Artists of the North: New Works, Trax, Fairbanks AK
2018 64th Parallel Juried Art Exhibition, Bear Gallery, Fairbanks AK
2018 10 x 10 Membership Exhibition, Bunnell Street Arts Center, Fairbanks AK
Public Art Commissions
2021 The Folk Quilt, The Folk School at Cabin 66 in Pioneer Park, Fairbanks AK
2021 Hen and Chicks, Calypso Farm and Ecology Center, Ester AK
2021 Gathering Place, Well Street Art Company, Fairbanks AK
2021 Flowers in a Basket, Garden Path and Beet Friends, Cook Inlet Housing Authority, Anchorage AK
2020 Rising Sun at Boreal Sun Charter School, Fairbanks AK
2020 Flying Geese at Creamer’s Field Migratory Waterfowl Refuge, Fairbanks AK
2020 Juncos & Sunflower Star, Fairbanks Community Garden, Fairbanks AK
2019 Snow Crystals, Goldie’s, Fairbanks AK
Selected Press & Interviews
2021 FORUM, Piecing it Together: Somer Hahm and the Far North Quilt Trail, Alaska Humanities Forum, Addie Studebaker
2021 Aurora Magazine, Exploring a Public Pattern: Somer Hahm '08, Elizabeth Talbot, 2021
2021 Latitude 64, Folk Quilt Project Launches, Chris Capps, April
2021 Edible Alaska Art in the Garden: Photo Essay by Addie Studebaker, Spring 2021
2020 Fairbanks Daily News Miner, Centerpiece of Fairbanks Quilt Trail Project Makes Debut, Gary Black, August
2020, I Like Your Work Podcast Studio Visit Artist of the Week, Erika B. Hess, April
2020 Art Matters: Live Broadcast Radio Interview: The Far North Quilt Trail Project, Graham Dane, January
2020 The Hi-Lo, Survival of the Artist: We are each others human resource, Virginia Broersma, January
2019 Fairbanks Daily News Miner, In Fairbanks, a Quilting Project Takes to the Trails, David James, December