Larissa is an artist and designer, born in Riverdale, GA, and raised in the Triad of North Carolina. Larissa earned her undergraduate degree in Consumer Apparel and Retail Studies from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and has several years of experience designing home textiles. She is the founder and maker of RissaLaRue Co., a home décor brand founded in 2019, and a recent recipient of Spoonflower’s 2023 Small Business Grant. She has won numerous awards including Fiber Art Now’s Excellence in Fibers, the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts Appalachian Visions Scholarship, and Penland School of Craft’s Cynthia Bringle and Edwina Bringle Scholarship. She has been included in Fiber Art Now’s magazine, ScadWorks, and BedTimes Magazine. She was invited to Arrowmont School of Art’s Winter Pentaculum residency and was a panelist for SAQA’s Bridging the Gulf Conference. She has participated in group exhibitions at Savannah Cultural Arts Center and VAE Raleigh in North Carolina, and exhibited her first solo titled PRESENCE at Cedar House Gallery in Savannah, GA. 

 Currently, she resides in Savannah, GA and has recently completed her MFA in Fibers from Savannah College of Art and Design