Larissa Frimpong
Artist, Educator, Curator @ Augustana College / Based in Illinois
Larissa Frimpong is a multi-disciplinary artist, educator, curator, and community-building facilitator. Her work investigates and invests in visual media through photography, archival methods, anti-colonial curatorial practices, and...
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Photographer, Curator, Fine Art, Creative, Art, Arts & Culture, Artist
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Available in: Illinois
Focused on:
Photographer, Curator, Fine Art, Creative, Art, Arts & Culture, Artist
Coverage Regions:
USA & Canada
Years of experience: More than 10
Larissa Frimpong is a multi-disciplinary artist, educator, curator, and community-building facilitator. Her work investigates and invests in visual media through photography, archival methods, anti-colonial curatorial practices, and building community toolkits, skill-sharing, and workshops by promoting care, dialogue, and resources within her social-artistic practice.
Larissa created the footnotes: a love practice, a work that delves into the intersections of community, archival methods, fashion, black style and aesthetics, advocacy, and transformative experiences to unveil a unique narrative of historical significance and contemporary relevance and STOOP TALK workshops, an interactive and collaborative workshop to promote and offer accessibility to art and educational resources for the BIPOC community by activating each workshop by sharing participating skill sets of multiple disciplines of art that are made with love and solidarity. A significant part of her artistic practice is collaborating with the BIPOC community to give access to the world of making, art education, community-built sustainable legacies, and archival methodologies that center on people of color.
Larissa holds an M.F.A. from the University of Arkansas and a B.F.A. from the Pennsylvania College of Art & Design. She has worked with Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Center for Art as Lived Experience (C.A.L.E.), The University of Arkansas School of Art, Faulkner Performing Arts Center, Vox Populi, and Christiane David Gallery, amongst other national and international institutions, in educator and curatorial roles, hosting her workshops and other creative based partnerships. She was a 2024 Fulbright Windgate Accelerator Grant Recipient Fellow, 2023 Sharon Killian Visual Arts Endowed Fall 2023 Intern at Crystal Bridges Museum, and a Gee's Bend Quilting Summer 2023 Residency and Scholarship Recipient.
Currently, Larissa is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Augustana College, Editorial & Partnerships Manager of Black Is Magazine, and is the founder of STOOP TALK: ARTIST TAKES podcast.
Larissa created the footnotes: a love practice, a work that delves into the intersections of community, archival methods, fashion, black style and aesthetics, advocacy, and transformative experiences to unveil a unique narrative of historical significance and contemporary relevance and STOOP TALK workshops, an interactive and collaborative workshop to promote and offer accessibility to art and educational resources for the BIPOC community by activating each workshop by sharing participating skill sets of multiple disciplines of art that are made with love and solidarity. A significant part of her artistic practice is collaborating with the BIPOC community to give access to the world of making, art education, community-built sustainable legacies, and archival methodologies that center on people of color.
Larissa holds an M.F.A. from the University of Arkansas and a B.F.A. from the Pennsylvania College of Art & Design. She has worked with Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Center for Art as Lived Experience (C.A.L.E.), The University of Arkansas School of Art, Faulkner Performing Arts Center, Vox Populi, and Christiane David Gallery, amongst other national and international institutions, in educator and curatorial roles, hosting her workshops and other creative based partnerships. She was a 2024 Fulbright Windgate Accelerator Grant Recipient Fellow, 2023 Sharon Killian Visual Arts Endowed Fall 2023 Intern at Crystal Bridges Museum, and a Gee's Bend Quilting Summer 2023 Residency and Scholarship Recipient.
Currently, Larissa is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Augustana College, Editorial & Partnerships Manager of Black Is Magazine, and is the founder of STOOP TALK: ARTIST TAKES podcast.