Join us for the second sumac sundowner, featuring the textile works of casey roberts (Marion, al) and the songs of tim higgins (greensboro, al), including new collaborative works by the two artists. Tim and casey both make work about the ghosts that haunt the black belt where they live, and we are happy to bring these two together for a special night in greensboro.

6:00 - reception

7:00 - 7:45 - tim higgins performance

7:45-until - party on

we’ll open up at 6:00 with a reception in the gallery, featuring textile works by casey roberts. we’ll highlight casey’s new stitched architectural works, inspired by his memories of structures throughout the black belt. he refers to the works as “an autobiography through architecture.” Casey will also have works that respond to tim’s music. Starting at 7:00, tim higgins will perform a set of songs, including new work in response to and in collaboration with casey.

The cottage and gallery will be open throughout the night with a variety of artwork and sumac cottage goods for sale. feel free to byob and stay a while.

Singer-songwriter Tim Higgins writes and performs songs which spiral around issues dealing with love, loss, destruction, and history; his are personal songs that often carry broader social implications. Born and raised partly around Detroit, Michigan, and coastal Alabama, his Rust Belt meets Southern upbringing is channeled in his straightforward imagery and gravel-throated delivery. Twice included on Rolling Stone Country’s Best New Music list, Tim’s debut album, BLIGHT, came out in 2020, and his songs have been featured on The Bluegrass Situation, No Depression, AmercanaUK, and NPR Music. In October 2024, Tim released the single, Lost in Heaven, followed by Doomed to Love Me in February 2025. Tim lives in the Black Belt region of Alabama, with his partner, textile artist, Aaron Sanders Head.

Casey Roberts is a name and a memory—longing to be remembered. Quilts are a home, both foreign and familiar. Clothes, an illusion. Dolls, a cry from the child we knew. We are the sum of time: the resilience, the degradation, the patina all testify to a present informed by the past. Textiles are not only a shield from time, but a window into its passage. Art is an ode to a life thoroughly lived. Roberts is a perennial flower, growing in the Black Belt of Alabama.