My artistic practice is one of radical compassion as I explore themes of loss and the hyper local. My work derives from my personal experience growing up in Newtown, Connecticut in the wake of the Sandy Hook Shooting. Coming from a community that was branded by tragedy, I am ceaselessly interested in locational identity. I am driven by the concept of attachment to place. Through this lens, I excavate the flexible psychological compartmentalization of place, and examine the inextricable link between trauma, and the land it happened on.

Haley Kean is a Printmaker from Newtown CT, currently based in Northampton, MA. She received her MFA in Printmaking from Ohio University, and BFA in Studio Art from Keene State College. Haley’s work seeks visually interpreting radical compassion in the aftermath of trauma.