Karen Hanna is Dean of the College of Environmental Design at Cal Poly Pomona. Hanna has been an academic administrator, a faculty member, and a practicing, licensed landscape architect in California. Hanna has served as national President of Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA), and national Vice-President for Education for ASLA. In 1998, Hanna received a Fulbright Scholar Award to the Netherlands. At Wageningen University, she developed a course that integrated GIS into design studio. She has written two books on GIS applications in site analysis and design. In 2007, Dean Hanna received the Educator of the Year award from the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. 

Artist’s Statement
"This ceramic piece was created in 1989, while the artist was living in San Diego. It has a lustrous, light blue glaze over a white stoneware clay body. Karen Hanna began her pottery avocation while an undergraduate student at the University of Michigan and continued making pots until 1994, when she started a series of roles in academic administration. She hopes to return to making pots one day. "