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Larissa McPherson

Academic Area
Studio Art

Degree Seeking
MFA

Email
larissa.mcpherson@uga.edu

Academic Area
Studio Art

Undergraduate Institution
University of West Georgia

Undergraduate Degree
B.S. in Psychology, Minor in Studio Art

Hometown
Adairsville, GA

Academic Area
Studio Art

Degree Seeking
MFA

Larissa McPherson is a metalsmith and jewelry artist from Adairsville, GA, and is currently working on her MFA in Jewelry & Metalsmithing at the University of Georgia Lamar Dodd School of Art. Larissa graduated from the University of West Georgia with a B.S. in Psychology and a minor in studio art.

Research Detail

Larissa’s work explores ideas and issues related to the accumulation of microplastics and waste in the environment, specifically in animal bodies. Microplastics are now found in every being and Larissa’s work imagines how this might visually appear in the bones animals leave behind. The presentation of her work is inspired by Natural History Museums. Natural collections are an important way to study evidence we find by comparing unaltered bones, found plastics from the environment, and where those two meet in the animal body. During the creation of her work, Larissa embodies a natural historian who is discovering the “evidence” of specimens that are the result of these environmental conditions.

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