Hanna Kivimaki is a Junior at Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and is pursuing a BFA degree in Comic Art with both Teaching Artist and Creative Writing minors and is expected to graduate in Spring 2018. She is originally from Finland, and at seventeen years old, got a scholarship to study art at Idyllwild Arts Academy in California, and from there continued to follow her passion for comic art. Her other interests lie in videogame-making and sculpting. She has always enjoyed mentoring and taking care of children, and has experience in babysitting, sports team coaching, and running a drawing event for children and teens at an anime convention.

As a teaching artist, she wishes to help children to have fun and relax when creating art in many different ways, while instructing them to find their own artistic paths. Her goal is to create an understanding and welcoming environment for artistic expression where children feel safe to explore and experiment