About
Haley Searcy (they/she) is an artist based in Dover, New Hampshire, originally from North Carolina. They work with textiles by mending, sewing, and upcycling, and use upcycled and secondhand materials whenever possible. Their art lives in the space between useful and expressive: patched-up jackets, hand-stitched wall hangings, and other soft things made with care.
They also make weird and funny stickers, pins, and prints with themes of queerness, mental health, and emotional honesty. Combining humor, weirdness, and charm, each design is a tiny moment of connection or catharsis. Characters include sharks, possums, rats, and goblins.
Since moving to New Hampshire after graduating college in 2020, they’ve been building community through free mending clubs, teaching art workshops for teens, and helping out with local gallery shows. Their work is grounded in care, curiosity, and a love of things that are a little bit scrappy but still full of life.
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SELECT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE & AFFILIATIONS
2025 (July) Studio Assistant, Designing Patterns & Prints for Textiles, Sanborn Mills Farm, Loudon NH
2025 - Present Digital Media & Content Creator, Arts In Reach, Durham NH
2025 - Present Member, New Hampshire Art Association, Portsmouth NH
2024 - Present Mending Club Facilitator, Auspicious Brew, Dover NH
2024 - Present Natural Dye Study Group Member, Sanborn Mills Farm, Loudon NH
2023 - Present Resident Artist, Sue’s Studios, Rollinsford NH
2022 - 2024 Program Manager, Arts In Reach, Portsmouth NH
2021 - 2022 Program Coordinator, Arts In Reach, Portsmouth NH
2020 - 2021 Program Development & Research AmeriCorps VISTA, Arts In Reach, Portsmouth NH
2021 - 2023 Resident Artist & Volunteer, Wrong Brain, Dover NH
AWARDS
2025 Honorable Mention, NH Art Association's Fledgling: Artists Under 30, Portsmouth NH
NCSW Scholarship Recipient, North Country Studio Workshops, Bennington VT
2024 Sanborn Mills Farm Scholarship Recipient, Sanborn Mills Farm, Loudon NH
2023 Young Artist Scholarship, North Country Studio Workshops, Bennington VT
SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2025 Featured Artist, HiFi Burritos, Dover NH
2024 Featured Artist, HiFi Burritos, Dover NH
2023 The Muse’s Workshop, Collab with Rebecca Romanoski, Bedrock Gardens, Lee NH
2022 Grow Together, Collab with Scott Crow, Wrong Brain, Dover NH
Frog Tea Party, Collaboration with Rebecca Romanoski, Bedrock Gardens, Lee NH
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Transcendence, NH Art Association, Portsmouth NH
Interwoven, NH Art Association, Portsmouth NH
Queer Joy as an Act of Resistance, Queerlective and Totally Tea + Coffee, Concord NH
Fledgling: Artists Under 30, NH Art Association, Portsmouth NH
2024 Big Cheap Art Show, Wrong Brain and Oak House, Newmarket NH
Animalia, Portsmouth Music and Arts Center, Portsmouth NH
Altered Futures, New Hampshire Art Association, Portsmouth NH
2023 Big Cheap Art Show, Wrong Brain and Oak House, Newmarket NH
Spring Bizaare Pop Up Gallery, Wrong Brain and The Millspace, Newmarket NH
Exhibit of Subversive Malcontents, Wrong Brain, Dover NH
2022 Big Cheap Art Show, Wrong Brain, Dover NH
Keep Dover Wild, Dover Arts Commission, Dover NH
2021 Big Cheap Art Show, Wrong Brain, Dover NH
Housing Solidarity Exhibit, Wrong Brain, Dover NH
ARTPM, Buoy Gallery, Kittery ME
2019 The Eleventh Wave, Hatchet Coffee, Boone NC
Healing After Trauma, 3rd Place, Boone NC
EDUCATION & CONTINUING EDUCATION
2025 Fiber: Plants, Prints, and Patterns on Cotton, Emily Parkinson, NCSW, Bennington VT
2024 Designing Patterns & Prints for Textiles, Arielle Toelke, Sanborn Mills Farm, Loudon NH
2023 Certificate in Coaching Children and Teens, University of New Hampshire, Durham NH
Traditional Yoruba Adire Eleko & Tie-dye, Gasali Adeyemo, NCSW, Bennington VT
2016 - 2020 BS in Sociology (Social Inequalities), Minors in English and Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies, Appalachian State University, Boone NC
MARKETS, POP UPS, AND SHOWCASES
2024 Auspicious Brew’s Winter Solstice Community Market
Wrong Brain’s Night Bizaare, Dover NH
Hive & Forge’s Back Room Artist Market, Salem MA
Auspicious Brew’s Midsummer Community Market, Dover NH
LunaMoth Zine Fest, Salem NH
Auspicious Brew’s Spring Equinox Community Market, Dover NH
2023 WSCA Winter Market, Portsmouth NH
Wrong Brain’s Holidaze Bizzare, Dover NH
The Outboard’s HoliGAY Fair, North Hampton NH
Crackskulls Pop Up Market, Newmarket NH
Queerlective’s Concord Art Market, Concord NH
2022 Queerlective’s Sip and Slay, Manchester NH
Wrong Brain Holidaze Bizarre, Newmarket NH
The Outboard’s HoliGay Market and Campfire, North Hampton NH
The Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo (MICE), Boston MA
Bones and Arrows Music Festival’s Bones Bazaar, Newmarket NH
Queer Craft Maine’s Queer Artist Market, Portland ME
2021 Auspicious Brew’s Holiday Pop-Up Shop, Dover NH
The Outboard’s HoliGay Market and Campfire, North Hampton NH
Wrong Brain's Chapel + Main Holidaze Bizarre, Dover NH
Cocheco Arts Festival Visual Arts Showcase, Dover NH
Dunn Farm's Country Craft Fair, Berwick ME
Hive and Forge's April & October Pop Up Artist, Salem MA
2020 Show and Tell Pop Up Shop, Asheville NC
Wrong Brain Holidaze Bizarre, Dover NH
Pop Up Boone, Boone NC
2019 Pop Up Boone, Boone NC
The Willow Tree's Artists and Makers Market, Johnson City TN