Ah Haa School for the Arts
Create Awareness with San Miguel Resource Center
& Beneath Our Feet by Leah Higgins
Artwalk participants are invited to create their own bead-bracelet and learn about how to identify domestic violence on October 2nd from 5pm - 7pm at Ah Haa School for the Arts in partnership with the San Miguel Resource Center. Join us for an evening of interactive bracelet making in honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month. If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence, please contact San Miguel Resource Center.
In the Daniel Tucker Exhibition Gallery, Ah Haa welcomes UK-based textile artist Leah Higgins. Beneath Our Feet is a body of textile work inspired by the milling and mining industries of her home city of Manchester and by the surrounding region’s strong industrial heritage. In her large, abstract textile wall hangings that feature screen printing, quilting and dye techniques, she celebrates former cotton mills that continue to erode and decay, and those that have found new purposes as studio spaces for artists and musicians.
The renowned textile artist is celebrated for her thoughtful combination of techniques. First she works with color and mark directly onto fabrics often utilizing breakdown, or deconstructed printing to create cohesive base fabrics characterized by dense complex neutral colors. She cuts her fabrics and reconstructs them into quilts which are then layered and quilted. Higgins uses stitch, fused applique and additional layers of print to reference specific inspiration and to create harmony between individual quilts within a series.
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