Gallery Talk: B. Jean Larson and Jeana Eve Klein

Hear from two exhibiting fiber artists in the Faculty Biennial: Department of Art. The talk begins in Gallery A with Teaching Assistant Professor B. Jean Larson, followed by Professor of Fibers Jeana Eve Klein in Petti/Peiser Gallery.

About the Artists

B. Jean Larson is an artist and researcher who received her MFA from Arizona State University in 2024. Larson’s work focuses on the intersections of utilitarian textile craft, queer theory, and posthumanism. By reappropriating and reclaiming traditional textiles, Larson questions ideas of uselessness and usefulness in systems that consume objects, people, and land. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally at Gately Gallery (Florence, SC, 2026), the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum (Mesa, AZ, 2024), the Icelandic Textile Center (Blönduós, Iceland, 2023), and the Wakkanai Public Library (Wakkanai, Japan, 2019.) She was the 2024-2025 Artist in Residence for Fibers at the Appalachian Center for Craft in Smithville, TN. Currently, she is a Teaching Assistant Professor of Fibers in the Department of Art.

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Jeana Eve Klein is an artist and educator and serves as Professor of Fibers in the Department of Art. Klein’s work has been exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions at OZ Arts (Nashville) and ArtSpace (Raleigh) and group exhibitions at the Museum of Design (Atlanta), PULSE Contemporary Art Fair (Miami Beach), and the Contextile Biennial (Portugal). Klein earned her undergraduate degree from North Carolina State University and MFA from Arizona State University. She is a past recipient of the North Carolina Arts Council Individual Craft Artist Fellowship.

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