Prof. Hanrahan's artistic career began in 1978 with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Maryland in College Park where she studied with David Driscoll, Anne Truit, Martin Puryear, and William Willis. In 2002 she received an M.F.A. in Computer Arts from the School of Visual Arts. She has traveled extensively throughout India, Asia, Korea, Europe, Cuba and the United States. Jerelyn Hanrahan has been interviewed on three occasions for the PS1 / Museum of Modern Art radio station, and on National Public Radio with Margo Adler, the BBC in New York and London, Telli ­Bern in Switzerland, Air Canada in Toronto and on Havana T.V. in Cuba. Her work has been favorably reviewed by Sculpture Magazine, The New York Times, Newsday, neue bildende kunst, Time Out Magazine, the Village Voice, NY Arts, the Brooklyn Rail, Tages Anzeiger, Kunst Bulletin, Art Observer, Adbusters and The Resident, as well as many local newspapers and numerous international publications. In 2012 she installed Graduated Pearls , a fifty-foot public artwork exhibited at Jim Kempner Fine Arts Gallery, located in Chelsea, New York. Graduated Pearls was part of an exhibition curated by Dru Arstark entitled BLING. On October 12, 2011, the 50-foot interactive public sculptures which functions as a public bench was initially sited in Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park, located in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York. The project was part of the New York Foundation for the Art s, Fiscal Sponsorship Program.