Hannah Rose Weinewuth is a Chicago based Catholic artist and an emerging-learning Art Therapist. Hannah sees with the lens of dyslexia and is navigating being a third year graduate student at the School of The Art Institute of Chicago. Her interest and research investigates how the making of art can support individuals and families in the final stages of life. Hannah is currently interning with Unity Hospice and Palliative Care where her work utilizes art as a tool to explore death, review life, and compose legacy. Hannah utilizes an intuitive client lead approach and pulls materials in as needed. Hannah is influenced by the Expressive Therapies Continuum and believes that art can be a space of wonder and play. Her hope is to expand the concept of art by bringing art into the everyday mundane.
I am a mixed media artist and explorer who loves the mess that comes with art making. I assimilate to my surroundings with the aim to receive and reflect the present while using a variety of materials. I primarily gravitate to fluidity found in paints placed on utilizing raw canvas, and the soft beauty in natural materials. It is the process of art making that is captivating to me. The disorder that drifts and unfolds into an understood order which tells a story held outside time.
My work is currently influenced by my internship at Unity Hospice and Palliative Care. Here my work is grounded in using the creative hand of art to care and support patients and families during the process of dying. I am bestowed the honor to gain bits of wisdom, to hold grief, grapple with the loss of control, and observe the immense acts of care, companionship, and love. I am being reminded of the fickle dance of time while looking at my own legacy, mortality, and eventual decline. At present my work reflects a visual legacy with an acknowledgment of the unexplainable gift of creation.
I make because I was first made. In this act of doing, I contemplate The Creator. In art making, I am pulled into the stillness of the creative pause, the reverence of a start, and the act of bravery to begin. I am an artist because I am attuned to love. It is a gift to make art and in this making I have found a sense of purpose. My foundation is to love, my work is to discover, and my choice is the practice of an art therapist.
Little Piece, 2023. Acrylic Paint on Raw Canvas.
Little Piece, 2023. Acrylic Paint on Raw Canvas.
Little Piece, 2023. Acrylic Paint on Raw Canvas.
Little Piece, 2023. Acrylic Paint on Raw Canvas.
Little Piece, 2023. Acrylic Paint on Raw Canvas.