Jennie Hahn (she/her) is an interdisciplinary, performance-based artist committed to social repair and environmental care in Wabanakik/Maine — a place with which she is in multi-generational, settler-colonial relationship. Jennie is co-creator of In Kinship Collective, a cross-cultural performance project that follows the tradition of Wabanaki guiding. As a producer of community-based theater and performance, Jennie has developed multi-year and multi-partner performance projects with Maine farmers (Farms & Fables, 2011), municipal/state agencies (Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, 2014), and fisheries biologists (In Kinship, 2016). Jennie’s relationship-driven practice is profiled in the “Municipal-Artist Partnership Guide” published by Animating Democracy and A Blade of Grass. Her work has been funded and supported by New England Foundation for the Arts, the Kindling Fund, MAP Fund, Network of Ensemble Theatres, the Center for Performance and Civic Practice, and the Maine Arts Commission, among others. 

Jennie holds an MFA in Intermedia and is currently a PhD student in the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Study program at the University of Maine. Her research investigates performance methodologies that work to fulfill responsibilities to place. Jennie is a Graduate Assistant in the Graduate Student Exchange Program at UMaine and an Instructor in the Creative Arts Department at UMaine Machias, where she teaches Graphic Design and Photography.

Headshot by Robyn Nicole.