Somer Hahm - Instructors

Somer Hahm is a visual artist and a visitor living and working on the ancestral lands of the Tanana Dene peoples, also known as Fairbanks, Alaska. She received a BFA from University of Montana, Missoula in 2005 and an MFA, with an emphasis in Painting and Drawing, from University of Alaska, Fairbanks in 2008.

With robust involvement in the Fairbanks art community, Somer exhibits her work statewide. She is a teaching artist, and instructs painting and drawing workshops for The Folk School of Fairbanks and Well Street Art Company, and is Adjunct Professor of Drawing at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Somer has dual roles in the arts community of Fairbanks, and is employed at Fairbanks Arts Association as Exhibition Technician. Somer enjoys working one-on-one with nationally known and Alaskan artists in all career stages and hands-on with a diverse variety of artworks installing the art exhibitions at FAA’s Bear Gallery.

Motivated to create community involvement and interest in public art, Somer founded the Far North Quilt Trail in 2019. Alaska’s first barn quilt trail is a community-wide, creative place-making endeavor that has activated the visual landscape with vibrant public art. Hahm has received support for her work through a 2020 Rasmuson Individual Artist Project Award, the Alaska Chapter of the Awesome Foundation, the Alaska State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment of the Arts to further her artist-led endeavor of creative place-making, initiating Alaska’s first barn quilt trail. Somer is a mother of two young children.