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Somer Hahm

somer.a.hahm@gmail.com | www.somerhahm.com

 

 

Education

2008 University of Alaska, Fairbanks (UAF) / MFA - Painting and Drawing magna cum laude 

2005 University of Montana, Missoula (UM)/ BFA - Painting and Drawing summa cum laude 

 

Awards & Collections 

2024 Travel Grant - Bunnell Street Arts Center, Homer AK

2023 Harper Arts Touring Grant - Alaska State Council on the Arts and Fairbanks Arts Association

2022 UAF Alumni Association Benefactors Fund Grant Recipient

2022 Our2Cents Grant Recipient, Fairbanks Farm Barn Quilt

2022 Adaptation and Innovation Grant - Alaska State Council on the Arts and National Endowment of the Arts

2022 SARTA Grant Recipient, Butte Montana, Friendship Stars Mural

2021 Usibelli Foundation Grant Recipient 

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 Arts Development Grant Recipient - Alaska State Council on the Arts and National Endowment of the Arts

2020 Cook Inlet Housing Authority Mini Grant - Anchorage AK

2019 Art In the Garden - Our2Cents Inc. Grant Recipient

2017 Northern Alaska Environmental Center “Artist of the Year”

2008 UAF College of Liberal Arts- Art Department Graduate Fellow 

2005 University of Montana College of Liberal Arts “Presidential Student of the Year” Award

2005 University of Montana, Missoula - Permanent Art Collection Raku Vessel

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2022 Loose Quilts, Well Street Art Company, Fairbanks AK

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

2024 Thinking Made Visible, University of Alaska Museum of the North, Fairbanks AK

2024 UAF College of Liberal Arts - Art Faculty Exhibition, UAF Gallery, Fairbanks AK

2023 Mother, Bear Gallery, Fairbanks AK

2022 Alaska Biennial, Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, Anchorage AK

2022 UAF College of Liberal Arts - Art Faculty Exhibition, UAF Gallery, Fairbanks AK

2022 64th Parallel Juried Art Exhibition, 1st Place/Juror's Choice Award, Juror Allison Baker, Bear Gallery, Fairbanks Ak

2022 Mother, Bunnell Street Arts Center, Homer AK

2022 Entanglement, Honorable Mention, Juror Melissa Shaginoff, Bear Gallery, Fairbanks AK

2022 Warmth, Stay Home Gallery, Paris TN

2021 64th Parallel Juried Art Exhibition, Bear Gallery, Fairbanks AK 

2021 From Fairbanks with Love, The Lemonade Stand, Anchorage AK

2021 13+, curator Tamara Wilson, The Lemonade Stand, Fairbanks AK

2021 UAF College of Liberal Arts - Art Faculty Exhibition, UAF Gallery, Fairbanks AK

2020 The Pink Show, curator Ethan Lausen, Well Street Art Co, 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 

2023 Anchorage Museum + SEED Lab Artist in Residence/Muralist, Anchorage, AK

2023 Artist in Schools Resident Artist - Pearl Creek Elementary, Fairbanks AK 

2022 Asphalt Art Initiative + Bloomberg Grant Selected Artist, Fairbanks AK

2022 Fairbanks Farm Barn Quilt, Fairbanks Experiment Farm, Fairbanks AK

2022 Friendship Stars, Mural - SARTA Grant, Imagine Butte Resource Center Butte, MT

2022 Spruce Cone, Black Spruce Brewing Company, Fairbanks AK

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 Authorities Centennial Village Gardens Mini Quilt Trail

2020 Rising Sun, Boreal Sun Charter School, Fairbanks AK

2020 Flying Geese, 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 & Artist Talks

2024 The More You Look Podcast, UAF Museum of the North, Thinking Made Visible, Roger Topp, February 2024

2023 Alaska Magazine, Alaska's Far North Quilt Trail: Take a Self Guided Tour, Patrice Lavine, May

2023 Discover Alaska Lecture Series, The Far North Quilt Trail Project, University of Alaska Fairbanks, June 21

2022 Homer News, Artists Collaborate on Exhibit Exploring the Challenges of Being Mother and Makers, Christina Whiting, December 7

2022 Fairbanks Daily News Miner, Juror’s Choice Goes to Somer Hahm at 64th Parallel Juried Art Exhibition, Kris Kapps, October 13

2022 Fairbanks Daily News Miner, Far North Quilt Trail Project Gets New Addition, Kris Kapps, September 3

2022 Fairbanks Daily News Miner, Barn Quilt to be Displayed at Fairbanks Experiment Farm, Kris Kapps, August 26

2022 Choteau Acantha, Bynum Hosting Concert Lineup, Melody Martinsen Acantha, August 9

2022 Montana Standard, Artist Wraps a Cold Cement Wall with a Quilt Pattern in Butte, Meagan Thompson, July 16

2022 Fairbanks Daily News Miner, Art project kicks off, adding and splash of color to downtown streets, Jack Barnwell, June 5

2022 Philanthropic Education Organization/ PEO Keynote Speaker, Fairbanks AK

2021 FORUM, Piecing it Together: Somer Hahm and the Far North Quilt Trail, Alaska Humanities Forum, Addie Studebaker, Spring Edition

2021 Aurora Magazine, Exploring a Public Pattern: Somer Hahm '08, Elizabeth Talbot, August

2021 Latitude 64, Folk Quilt Project Launches, Chris Capps, April 

2021 Edible Alaska Art in the Garden: Photo Essay by Addie Studebaker, Spring Edition

2021 Members Only: Alaska Biennial 2020: Somer Hahm + Kristin Link - Artist Talk, Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, Anchorage Alaska, February

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

2020 Rotary Club of Fairbanks Guest Speaker: The Far North Quilt Trail

2019 Fairbanks Daily News Miner, In Fairbanks, a Quilting Project Takes to the Trails, David James, December

 

Residencies

2023 Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center + SEED Lab Residency, Anchorage AK

2022 Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, University of Alaska Fairbanks Experiment Farm Artist in Residence, Fairbanks AK

2020 Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Creamer’s Field Migratory Waterfowl Refuge Artist in Residence, Fairbanks AK

 

Related Employment and Internships

2022 - Present Adjunct Faculty, Professor of Drawing and Painting, College of Liberal Arts, University of Alaska Fairbanks

2019 - Present Creative Director of the Far North Quilt Trail Project www.thefarnorthquilttrailproject.com 

2018 - Present Exhibition Technician Bear Gallery, Fairbanks Arts Association

2017 - Present  Drawing and Painting Instructor the Folk School of Fairbanks

2006 - 2012 Gallery Assistant, Well Street Art Company

2008 Gallery Manager/Graduate Practicum - University of Alaska Art Gallery

2005 Student Intern, Gallery of Visual Arts, University of Montana

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