By ROWENA PLETT

Staff writer

Hannah Bennett, formerly of Marion and an artist in residency in Kansas, will appear at a public event from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday at Tallgrass National Prairie Preserve near Cottonwood Falls.

Bennett is a 1994 graduate of Marion High School. She received a fine arts degree from the University of Kansas in 1998 and a master’s in fine arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2017.

She is spending two weeks in the Tallgrass Artist Residency program, which gives her the opportunity to engage with the prairie ecosystem. Most of her time from Monday through Sept. 20 will be spent at the Volland Store, an artist retreat near Alma.