Jacqui Larsen is a painter and mixed-media artist who has exhibited her work widely. Highlights include Animal Brilliance, a painting/poetry collaboration, Women Beyond Borders, an internationally traveling exhibition based at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Metaphorically Speaking, BYU Museum of Art, UT; and Ancient Fragments in a New Light, Woman-made Gallery, Chicago. Jacqui Larsen began painting as a teenager in Syracuse, New York, then headed west to complete an MFA degree in painting from Brigham Young University in Utah. Since then, she has traveled extensively, finding that new places and people help her see life with a fresh perspective.
Jacqui Larsen has taught at Northwest College in Houston, Houston Community College and at Brigham Young University, where she co-directed a Study Abroad program to Spain. She has also served on the Board of Directors for Art Access Utah. Her work has appeared in many literary journals, including Rattle, Tampa Review, Ellipses, and Folio as well as on the covers of three University of Tampa poetry collections.
Female
Artist, Author, Mixed Media Artist, Painter
She is the recipient of numerous awards, grants and honors, including two Utah Visual Arts Fellowships (1996 and 2006), and a Lieutenant Governor%u2019s Award. Notably, her work was selected to represent Utah in The De-Constructed West, a Four-State Fellowship Exhibition at the Millenium Arts Center in Washington, DC. Most recently, Larsen was awarded an artist%u2019s residency fellowship from The Anderson Center in Red Wing, Minnesota.