Hannah Mitsu Shimabukuro (b.1991) earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Studio Art from Yale University in 2013. Upon completion of her undergraduate degree she worked as the printmaking studio technician for the University of Tennessee School of Art in Knoxville from 2014-2017. Shimabukuro has shown nationally and internationally, with her most recent show at the CICA Museum in Gimpo-si, Korea, and at Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was born and raised in Hawaii and is currently relocating to Asheville, NC to study weaving.