Larissa McPherson
Email
lbm60760@uga.edu
Academic Area
Jewelry & Metalwork, Studio Art
Current Career
Part-Time Teaching Faculty
Location
Athens, GA
Link(s)
Website
Degree Seeking
MFA
Email
larissa.mcpherson@uga.edu
Undergraduate Institution
University of West Georgia
Undergraduate Degree
B.S. in Psychology, Minor in Studio Art
Hometown
Adairsville, GA
Degree Seeking
MFA
Larissa McPherson is a metalsmith and jewelry artist from Adairsville, GA. She holds an MFA in Jewelry & Metalsmithing at the University of Georgia’s 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. She is currently a part-time instructor in Jewelry and Metals: Design and Construction (ARST 2600).
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.
