Hannah Burr Studio Books

These books are wonderful gifts for self and other care, for sea-change moments to inspire peace, freedom and direction in messy, uncertain human life.

The Elements book:  An artist's book about the elements of the periodic table and our inseparability from everything. This book is full of practical and accessible knowledge, shared clearly, playfully and simply. You will find out where exactly each element can be found in your body, the objects around you, and in the vast processes of space. There is an excellent index, over 100 color sketches, and over 200 individual artworks by Hannah Burr accompanying this carefully researched art and reference book wonderful for all ages including middle to high-schoolers, mystics, designers, art enthusiasts, and color savorers.

The Contemporary Prayers to Whatever Works: 2021 Edition: This  2021 Edition of Burr's first book, with 80 new prayers to whatever or whomever works for you, and 80 vibrant color forms, one within in each prayer. This gorgeously illustrated collection of contemporary prayers, affirmations, and meditations is a wonderful gift for anyone in need of guidance, reassurance, peace, humor or a fresh look at what's here. Published by Simon + Schuster's Tiller Press. This open-minded book has simple prayers and meditations to help you connect. The prayers are nondenominational and encourage you, no matter your creed, to take a moment, breathe, and reconnect with the support that is out there, waiting for you. As a conceptual artist, Hannah Burr has used her art to stand in for a deity or higher power, providing accessible and beautiful pieces to help you on your spiritual journey. Take Contemporary Prayers to Whatever Works with you on the go or keep it by your bedside. This versatile book is designed to be a spiritual companion whenever you need a little inner harmony.

The Field Guide to Ambiguity: Is a book for learning to feel situated when you don’t know where you are. It’s a way to pause and orient when you are in life’s washing machine, without claiming to have your answers for you. It’s part journaling tool, part oracle and part artists' book, full of open-ended questions to help you relate freshly to what’s immediately around you. Burr pairs the structure of a scientific field guide with dynamic reflection and artwork to explore our human relationship to uncertainty—from earth-shaking life events to the intimate, daily mystery of opening your eyes in the morning. “It’s a tender situation, this openness, and you’re it.” “In the end, you yourself are ambiguity’s only bearings. You are the orienting principle of any given situation.“

Burr’s books are like references to the unknown. They are a beautiful meld of visual art, poetry, prayer and science.

About Hannah Burr: Hannah is a native of Boston Massachusetts now in Ann Arbor Michigan. Hannah's books are about direct connection to inspiration and new ways of seeing and being in the world. In her studio she makes original artwork, some completely abstract, some abstract landscape, and she also writes books and makes installation art. She runs workshops, coaches and speaks on the intersection of creative and contemplative practice, and has exhibited her artwork at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Currier Museum NH, the Drawing Center NY, and both the Danforth and Rose Art Museums in greater Massachusetts. Hannah is a cum laude graduate in Visual Art and Religious Studies from Brown University. She is a Berkshire Taconic and Mass Cultural Council Award winner, and a former MacDowell Colony Fellow. Hannah has been represented by Judy Goldman Fine Art Gallery, Boston, Barbara Singer Fine Art Cambridge MA, and Judith Leighton Gallery Bluehill ME.

The backstory: as a kid, Hannah was always on the existential end of the spectrum, contemplating on the schoolyard with a friend, what happens after you die (I mean, what if there's just nothing?!). At age nine, she could be seen in front of the candystore with a pal, trying to sell a single, hand-drawn interplanetary newspaper for 50 cents. She always wanted everybody to be included, and as a lifelong lover of color and drawing, landed on art as her love language.

Did you know? Starting in 2021, 10% of all product income goes to charities that heal, protect and inspire through Effective Altruism and accessible arts organizations in Detroit MI. For every product you buy, we plant one tree through Eden Projects!