About

B. Jean Larson
b.1993 Southeast Iowa
Textile artist, writer, vocalist

B. Jean Larson is an artist and researcher at the Appalachian Center for Craft. They received their MFA in Textiles from Arizona State University in 2024. B. Jean’s work focuses on the intersections of utilitarian textile craft, queer theory, and posthumanism. By reappropriating and reclaiming traditional textiles, B. Jean questions ideas of uselessness and usefulness in systems that consume objects, people, and land. Their work has been shown nationally and internationally at the Mesa Contemporary Art Museum (AZ, 2024), the Icelandic Textile Center (Blönduós, Iceland, 2023), and the Wakkanai Public Library (Wakkanai, Japan, 2019.)