Larkin Higgins is an American cross-disciplinary artist based in Los Angeles, California. Her work includes paintings, drawings, visual poetry, artists' books, book sculptures, installation art, collage, mail art, photo-related works, and performance art. Her published books of poetry combine text with logographic drawings. She is a tenured professor of art at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, California. Her work was celebrated at the Festival of Women in 1993, where she gave a talk on visual objects and the stories they tell. She was included in a group exhibition focused on assemblage at the Kwan Fong Gallery of Art and Culture in 2009.

Work in permanent collections

Her work is in the permanent collections of the following institutions: * Grunwald Collection at the

Hammer Museum The Hammer Museum, which is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles, is an art museum and cultural center known for its artist-centric and progressive array of exhibitions and public programs. Founded in 1990 by the entrepreneur- ...

( University of California, Los Angeles) * Erie Art Museum * Laguna Beach Museum of Art *

California Museum of Photography The UCR/California Museum of Photography (CMP) is an off-campus institution and department of the UCR College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at University of California, Riverside, the Uni ...

Charles E. Young Research Library The Charles E. Young Research Library is one of the largest libraries on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles in Westwood, Los Angeles, California. It initially opened in 1964, and a second phase of construction was completed ...

, Special Collections * Avant Writing Collection at The Ohio State University Libraries * Judith A. Hoffberg Archive (

University of California, Santa Barbara Library The University of California, Santa Barbara Library is the university library system of the University of California, Santa Barbara in Santa Barbara, California. The Library includes four facilities: Two libraries (the Main Library (Davidson Libra ...

) *

University at Buffalo Libraries The University at Buffalo Libraries is the university library system of the University at Buffalo. The library's collections includes some 3.8 million print volumes, as well as media, and special collections. The Libraries subscribe to some 350 re ...

, Special Collections * International Museum of Collage, Assemblage, and Construction

Bibliography

Her published books of poetry include: * ''Of Materials, Implements'' (Dusie Kollektiv) * ''Matchbook: Poems'' (Red Wind Books), 1999 *
Of Traverse and Template
' (Mindmade Books), 2013 *
Soil culture, Frankenstein-grafted (Dusie)
2013'' *
comb- ing mine- ings
' (Dusie), 2015

References

Year of birth missing (living people) 20th-century American artists 21st-century American artists 20th-century American poets 21st-century American poets 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers California Lutheran University faculty Living people Place of birth missing (living people) American women academics {{US-writer-stub