Hannah Kirkpatrick was born and raised in New Jersey and recently finished her Bachelors of Fine Arts (Glass) at the Rhode Island School of Design.  Currently, she is working as a studio assistant at the Chrysler Glass Studio in Norfolk, Virginia.  Her interests in light, the body, sight, and old technologies manifest in the making of devices, objects, and installations for vision and personal experience.  She has shown her work most recently on the east coast.