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Hannah Burr
Visual Artist, Curriculum Developer, Author
Hannah Burr is a visual artist and author originally from Boston MA, now a resident of Ann Arbor MI. Her third artists book Elements: a love letter to all things everywhere came out this year. She’s a graduate of Brown University who loves to find and share visual and creative ways to connect and understand. Burr’s recent book on the Elements is a thoroughly researched, playful and accessible book about where each element can be found in objects, what star process each was made in, as well as the qualities, behaviors and uses of each one.
Hannah’s artwork has been on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Currier Museum NH, the Drawing Center NY, both the Danforth and Rose Art Museums in greater Massachusetts. She is a Berkshire Taconic and Mass Cultural Council Award winner, and a former MacDowell Colony Fellow. Burr has taught, run workshops and coached elementary, middle and highschool aged students, worked with many kinds of learning styles and aptitudes, and is trained in the visual thinking strategy method of creative inquiry.
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Hannah Burr has developed a new colorful, object-oriented way of learning about the elements of the periodic table for all different kinds of minds and ages. She discovered that all elements are created in the centers of stars. Humans and everything around us is literally made of star dust! Watch the video and read the book to find out how.
When Hannah Burr, a contemporary artist, became curious about the elements, she found a lot of confusing technical scientific jargon that didn’t help answer her burning questions: Where are the elements, what are they like, what do they do, and how can I get to see, touch, hear, taste and feel them?
Her brand new book The Elements: a love letter to all things everywhere and her newly designed interdisciplinary curriculum for ages 2-18 based on the book, share in direct and playful ways about the here-and-now of the elements: what’s around you and in you and in outer space and how to connect the dots between all three.
Her curriculum, book or e-book (epub or PDF) can be used with middleschoolers, highschoolers, even infants learning words and colors, or curious adults. The Elements curriculum includes 12 lesson plans, worksheets, projects, and many cool variations and can accompany a child throughout their arc of learning, offer family activities for a rainy day, and be a fantastic springboard for anyone to get a playful, accessible, and layered primer on the elements of the periodic table.
Learn more at hannahburr.com/elements and find the book, ebook and curriculum at hannahburr.bigcartel.com
Examples from The Elements: a love letter to all things everywhere
