Seana Higgins
SEANA HIGGINS | http://seanahiggins.com/
I AM FEST 2011
“I have always been interested in comparison. When a shape, color, or smell catches my attention, I file it away in my memory and am able to recall it at a later moment. This sensory recollection only happens when the memory finds a partner; another something that evokes the same feeling or memory. Then, I know it is time to document these observations and get to work.
Mining memories of childhood, the toys I played with and other remnants of my history as inspiration, I am beginning to connect notions of myself as a child with those I’ve come to know as an adult. With this body of work, I’m using color as a way of visually connecting childhood imagery with that of my current environment. My goal is to let this imagery serve as a metaphor for the evolution my life and to find out why this imagery becomes so personally significant.”
-Seana Higgins
Higgins is a Chicago-born artist working in clay and multi-media. She received a BFA in art education and ceramics from University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign in 2008 and, in 2010, completed a postbaccalaureate year of studies at Louisiana State University. Higgins has taught art classes in a variety of settings including Chicago Public Schools, the Archdiocese of Chicago, Lillstreet Art Center, and Marwen. Currently working as a teaching artist through Urban Gateways and accepted as a resident artist at Terra Incognito in the summer of 2010, she continues to work both functionally and sculpturally in clay.
