# Larkin Higgins

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'''Larkin Higgins''' is an American cross-disciplinary artist based in [Los Angeles](/source/Los_Angeles), [California](/source/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.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=AWNB&t=country%3AUSA%21USA&sort=YMD_date%3AD&maxresults=20&f=advanced&val-base-0=%22larkin%20higgins%22&fld-base-0=alltext&docref=news/154A8065C7B75780|title=3 things to do for free in Denver this week, April 7–10|date=April 7, 2014|work=Westword|access-date=May 17, 2009}}</ref> She is a tenured professor of art at [California Lutheran University](/source/California_Lutheran_University) in [Thousand Oaks, California](/source/Thousand_Oaks%2C_California).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.callutheran.edu/faculty/profile.html?id=higgins|title=Larkin Higgins, M.F.A. {{!}} California Lutheran University|website=www.callutheran.edu|access-date=2019-05-17}}</ref>

Her work was celebrated at the Festival of Women in 1993, where she gave a talk on visual objects and the stories they tell.<ref>{{Cite news <!-- Deny Citation Bot--> |title=Thousand Oaks University to Salute Women in the Arts|last=Simon|first= Stephanie|work=Los Angeles Times|date= April 26, 1993|page= 2 |language=en|id = {{ProQuest|282025288}}}}</ref>

She was included in a group exhibition focused on assemblage at the Kwan Fong Gallery of Art and Culture in 2009.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://advance.lexis.com/document?crid=717badb9-46c5-4a15-a59b-0096824910fe&pddocfullpath=%2Fshared%2Fdocument%2Fnews%2Furn%3AcontentItem%3A4VG7-JBN0-TYCS-10NS-00000-00&pdcontentcomponentid=299219&pdmfid=1516831&pdisurlapi=true|title=Assemblage Exhibit Slated at CLUArtists Create 3-D works from Found Objects|date=January 26, 2009|work=Targeted News Source|access-date=May 17, 2019}}</ref>

== Work in permanent collections ==

Her work is in the permanent collections of the following institutions:

* Grunwald Collection at the [Hammer Museum](/source/Hammer_Museum) ([University of California, Los Angeles](/source/University_of_California%2C_Los_Angeles))
* [Erie Art Museum](/source/Erie_Art_Museum)
* [Laguna Beach Museum of Art](/source/Laguna_Beach_Museum_of_Art)
* [California Museum of Photography](/source/California_Museum_of_Photography)
* [Charles E. Young Research Library](/source/Charles_E._Young_Research_Library), Special Collections
* Avant Writing Collection at [The Ohio State University Libraries](/source/The_Ohio_State_University_Libraries) 
* Judith A. Hoffberg Archive  ([University of California, Santa Barbara Library](/source/University_of_California%2C_Santa_Barbara_Library))
* [University at Buffalo Libraries](/source/University_at_Buffalo_Libraries), Special Collections
* International Museum of Collage, Assemblage, and Construction<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.callutheran.edu/faculty/profile.html?id=higgins|title=Larkin Higgins, M.F.A. {{!}} California Lutheran University|website=www.callutheran.edu|access-date=2019-05-17}}</ref>

== Bibliography ==
Her published books of poetry include:

* ''Of Materials, Implements'' (Dusie Kollektiv)
* ''Matchbook: Poems'' (Red Wind Books), 1999 <ref>{{Cite book|title=Matchbook: poems|last1=Higgins|first1=Larkin|last2=Lummis|first2=Suzanne|last3=Red Wind Books (Firm)|date=1999|publisher=Red Wind Books|isbn=9781889504018|location=Los Angeles|language=en|oclc=224623741}}</ref>
* ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=IRzJoAEACAAJ Of Traverse and Template]'' (Mindmade Books), 2013 <ref>{{Cite book|title=Of traverse and template|last=Higgins|first=Larkin|date=2013|publisher=Mindmade Books|location=Los Angeles|language=en|oclc=865014021}}</ref>
* ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=N61RswEACAAJ Soil culture, Frankenstein-grafted (Dusie)], 2013'' <ref>{{Cite book|title=Soil culture, Frankenstein-grafted|last=Higgins|first=Larkin|date=2015|language=en|oclc=1009756291}}</ref>
* ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=OM4AkAEACAAJ comb- ing mine- ings]'' (Dusie), 2015 <ref>{{Cite book|title=comb- ing mine- ings|last=Higgins|first=Larkin|date=2015|language=en|oclc=939415219}}</ref>

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