Jess Larson

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Biography

Jess Larson was born and raised in West Central Minnesota, and received her undergraduate

degree at the University of Minnesota, Morris in 1992.  She did her graduate work at the

University of Colorado at Boulder, completing a Masters of Fine Arts in Sculpture in 1995.

Larson returned to the University of Minnesota, Morris in 1995 as a member of the Studio Arts

Faculty, and continues to work at the institution teaching foundation courses, drawing, digital

imaging, sculpture and photography.  Her work has been shown nationally and internationally in

various group and solo shows, including the 1999 Spoletto Piccolo Festival and the Jerome Book

Arts Exhibition at the Minnesota Center for the Book Arts, and the Governors Palace in Tlaxcala,

Mexico.