Bio

Hannah Brancato is an artist, educator and activist. Her work challenges viewers to think about the connections between personal experience and social injustices. She is Co-Founder and Co-Director of FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture. FORCE is a creative activist collaboration to upset the dominant culture of rape and promote a culture of consent. Hannah Brancato and Rebecca Nagle formed FORCE in 2010 to create a more public, difficult and honest conversation, demanding that we face the realities of sexual violence in the US. To promote this needed conversation, FORCE creates art actions to generate media attention and get millions of people talking.

Prior to her work with FORCE, in 2008, Hannah Brancato established Advocate Through Art, an awareness campaign by domestic violence survivors in a Baltimore shelter. In 2010, she co-founded Mother Made, a women’s economic empowerment project. Her work has been covered by NPR, CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, and Fast Company.

Brancato is graduate from Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) MFA in Community Art program. She is currently a professor at MICA.

Brancato tweets from @HannahBrancato.

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