Hanna Seggerman (b. 1996), is a multidisciplinary artist, educator and current resident of Knoxville, Tennessee. She was born in Blue Springs, Missouri and raised in rural Kingsley, Iowa. She received her Master of Fine Art degree in Sculpture from the University of Tennessee Knoxville in 2023. Hanna completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in K-12 Art Education and Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Sculpture with a minor in Art History from the University of Northern Iowa in 2019. She currently teaches visual art to high school students in Art 1, Advanced, and AP level coursework for Knox County Schools. Hanna continues to develop her studio practice from her home studio, exhibiting both locally in East Tennessee and across the nation.

My current body of work explores how light and shadow can be a means to further understand experiences of grief and the ephemerality of life. Artworks noting quick glimmers, micro moments of joy, observed in paused moments of everyday life. Grounded in an investigation of a personal collection of images that pay attention to the shadows created when sunlight passes through foliage. Moments of temporary darkness created only because of light.

These works on paper and fabric address both light and shadow simultaneously through a variety of media and techniques. Shadow often represented through India ink and graphite. Light existing within the negative spaces of each composition and piercing through the darkness as free motion embroidered metallic thread.