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.
✦ Select Professional Experience ✦
Lead Teaching Artist & Social Media Manager – Arts In Reach, Durham NH (2025–Present)
Member – New Hampshire Art Association, Portsmouth NH (2025–Present)
Mending Club Facilitator – Auspicious Brew, Dover NH (2024–Present)
Studio Assistant – Designing Patterns & Prints for Textiles, Sanborn Mills Farm, Loudon NH (July 2025)
Resident Artist – Sue’s Studios, Rollinsford NH (2023–2025)
Program Manager / Coordinator – Arts In Reach, Portsmouth NH (2021–2024)
AmeriCorps VISTA, Program Development & Research – Arts In Reach, Portsmouth NH (2020–2021)
Resident Artist & Volunteer – Wrong Brain, Dover NH (2021–2024)
✦ Awards ✦
2025: Honorable Mention, NH Art Association's Fledgling: Artists Under 30; NCSW Scholarship Recipient
2024: Sanborn Mills Farm Scholarship Recipient
2023: Young Artist Scholarship, North Country Studio Workshops
✦ Exhibitions ✦
Solo & Two-Person Exhibitions
2025: Featured Artist, HiFi Burritos, Dover NH
2024: Featured Artist, HiFi Burritos, Dover NH
2023: The Muse’s Workshop (Collab w/ Rebecca Romanoski), Bedrock Gardens, Lee NH
2022: Grow Together (Collab w/ Scott Crow), Wrong Brain, Dover NH; Frog Tea Party (Collab w/ Rebecca Romanoski), Bedrock Gardens, Lee NH
Group Exhibitions
2025: Stroll The Rainbow at NH Children's Museum; Full Circle at Mosaic Art Collective; Joy in the Making at NH Art Association; Transcendence at NH Art Association; Interwoven at NH Art Association; Queer Joy as an Act of Resistance at Totally Tea + Coffee; Fledgling: Artists Under 30 at NH Art Association
2024: Big Cheap Art Show at Oak House; Animalia at Portsmouth Music and Arts Center; Altered Futures at New Hampshire Art Association
2023: Big Cheap Art Show at Oak House; Spring Bizaare Pop Up Gallery at The Millspace; Exhibit of Subversive Malcontents at Wrong Brain
2022: Big Cheap Art Show at Wrong Brain; Keep Dover Wild via Dover Arts Commission
2021: Big Cheap Art Show at Wrong Brain; Housing Solidarity Exhibit at Wrong Brain; ARTPM at Buoy Gallery
2019: The Eleventh Wave at Hatchet Coffee; Healing After Trauma at 3rd Place
✦ Education & Continuing Education ✦
2025: Designing Patterns & Prints for Textiles, Sanborn Mills Farm, Loudon NH; Fiber: Plants, Prints, & Patterns on Cotton, NCSW, Bennington VT
2024: Designing Patterns & Prints for Textiles, Sanborn Mills Farm, Loudon NH
2023: Certificate in Coaching Children & Teens, University of New Hampshire; Traditional Yoruba Adire Eleko & Tie-Dye, NCSW, Bennington VT
2020: BS in Sociology (Social Inequalities), Minors in English and Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies, Appalachian State University, Boone NC
✦ Markets, Pop-Ups & Showcases ✦
2025
HoliGay Market and Fire (December)
HiFi Late Nite Market, Dover NH (October)
Dover's 4th Annual Witches Market, Dover NH (October)
South Hampton Fall Fest, South Hampton NH
Fall Magical Makers Market, Dover NH
Mystics, Makers & Magick, Dover NH
Heron Pond Farm's Tomato Festival, North Hampton NH
Auspicious Brew's Summer Solstice Community Market, Dover NH
NAV Art's Communal Threads Fiber Art Show, The Millspace, Newmarket NH
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