Hannah Shaban is an Arab American artist with a focus on ceramic sculpture and installation. Her realistic figures and objects work to illustrate the complex relationship with culture across the Arab diaspora. To further explore the elements of culture and experiences that form her identity, she has recently been creating ‘cultural artifacts’ that live outside of globalized imagery and revise the Orientalist perspective; objects that represent her singular Arab American experience that others might reflect in. Hannah received her Master’s in Fine Art from the Craft and Material Studies Department at Virginia Commonwealth University and recently attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture located in Madison, Maine.