Kristine Weilbacker Hanson is a visual artist based in the low country of South Carolina.. Born in 1961, she grew up in the suburbs of northern New Jersey and has lived in Washington, D.C., New Mexico, North Carolina, Baltimore and Princeton, NJ.. She has spent the majority of her professional career over the last 40 years in developing and financing low-income housing, which has greatly influenced her vision of the built environment. Over the past 20 years, she has returned to making art, specifically through photography documenting the changing social landscape across the country and around the world. She also works in fiber arts, sculpture and painting.