Hannah Chalew is an artist, educator and environmental activist raised and currently working in New Orleans. She received her BA from Brandeis University in 2009, and her MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2016. 

Chalew has exhibited widely around New Orleans and has shown around the country at the Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO; Wave Hill Public Garden and Cultural Center, Bronx, NY; Minnesota Center for the Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN; Asheville Museum of Art, Asheville, NC, and other venues. Her work has been featured in the various magazines as well as held in the collections of the City of New Orleans and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. In 2022, she was winner of the South Arts Southern Prize and a South Arts Louisiana State Fellow.