about

MALINALLI GARDENS brings artists and friends together through curated skill-sharing experiences centered on the exchange of knowledge, craft, and creative practice. We create opportunities to learn directly from artists, makers, and cultural practitioners, offering access to specialized skills, unique perspectives, and the kind of knowledge that is best shared in good company.

For that time, a garden becomes a classroom, a studio becomes a place of exchange, and strangers become collaborators. These gatherings invite participants into creative worlds not often accessible from the outside...spaces where knowledge is shared openly, skills are passed hand to hand, and creative practices are carried forward.

Hananne Hanafi, founder

Hananne Hanafi is a cultural strategist and creative placemaker with over fifteen years of experience working at the intersection of arts administration, community engagement, and public space activation. Trained in Anthropology and Media Arts at DePaul University, her practice centers cultural memory, collective storytelling, and collaborative learning. She has led youth and adult arts programming across community-based organizations in Chicago, producing large-scale murals, artist residencies, and cross-disciplinary programming grounded in cultural identity and place.

As founder of Malinalli Gardens, Hanafi curates travel-based art research, public art projects, and ongoing skill-share courses that bring artists and communities together to co-create meaning in shared space. Her work is informed by an ethnographic approach that foregrounds lived experience, intergenerational knowledge, and the role of art in shaping community agency and belonging.

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malinalligardens@gmail.com

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