Hannah Busekrus, born in Houston, Texas, is a multidisciplinary artist + designer living and working in Austin, Texas. Her current focus is creating immersive experiences using textiles.
She began her fiber art practice in 2006 in Honolulu, Hawaii, creating patterns for micro crochet jewelry, knit finger puppets & crochet dolls. She also began yarn-bombing fiber street art, putting her work out in her local Hawaiian community and Austin when she traveled to Texas.
In 2012 she was offered an opportunity to create her first large-scale fiber art installation in the Honolulu Contemporary Art Museum's garden, now the Honolulu Museum of Art Spalding House, for International Yarn Bombing Day. Her 47-tree-spanning sunset installation invited museum guests to find the one spot in the garden where all 47 pieces aligned.
In 2014 she was given another opportunity to work with the Honolulu Museum of Art for Pow Wow Hawaii. Living in California then, she designed and created two 10' 3" hand-knit & crocheted mermaids and installed them on the two front columns at the museum's art school, Linekona. They remained on exhibit for four months as part of the Pow Wow Hawaii 2014 street art festival that celebrates and brings together renowned street artists from around the world.
Hannah launched / h // s / r / textiles in 2019 as a place to explore her tactile tendancies. It is a cultivation of her experiences, missions, inspirations, and imagination. Her punch needle jewelry collections, hand-tufted home goods, and rugs are each handcrafted with her unwavering attention to detail, integrity, and craftsmanship. Her one-of-a-kind jewelry pieces are incredibly soft and made with a purpose: to give the wearer moments of softness throughout their day through touch. She creates each piece using sustainable bamboo and lush fibers, like recycled cashmere and indie-dyed wools—most of which are hand-dyed by artisans in her fiber art community. One of her operational missions is to bring awareness to other yarn artists' talents and help elevate yarn from its humble status as a craft material.
Her current immersive installation, Sabores Splash, was created for Topo Chico & Sweet Tooth Hotel for their downtown Dallas, Texas location, and not the first project she designed and produced for Sweet Tooth Hotel. During her residency with the Craft Yarn Council in 2019–2020, she installed, So Cozy, an eight-month-in-the-making, large-scale art expereince for STH Victory Park. It opened as part of Sweet Tooth Hotel's Intangible exhibition in June 2020. In June 2021, it moved to Sweet Tooth Hotel's Allen, Texas, location as part of their Rewind collection. It features two wholly tufted walls murals, an 8' x 7' x 6' tufted cat sculture, Scratch, and, Marty, a 7'4" marionette mouse, all completely hand-tufted and handcrafted.
