Bio — marguerite perret
marguerite.perret@gmail.com
www.margueriteperret.com
Marguerite Perret is a mixed media installation artist who explores connections between art, science, medicine, cultural history, literature and the decorative arts. She creates visual art installations based on documenting and re-contextualizing ideas, images, artifacts and specimens culled from libraries, archives and museum collections to raise awareness on contemporary issues. These include land use, conservation, women’s health and other social concerns. She often works collaboratively with artists, scientists, writers, public agencies, and museum and healthcare professionals.
Perret is currently developing a community based interactive art exhibition at Grinnell College in collaboration with Bruce Scherting, and working on a large-scale collaborative installation exploring women’s health issues. In addition to these public/social issues art projects, she is documenting rare and recently extinct species that exist only or primarily as specimens in museum collections. She has worked extensively with the collections at the University of Kansas Biodiversity Center, Lawrence, Kansas, and at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, Oxford University Natural History Museum, and the Grant Museum at the University College London.
Perret is an associate professor of art and design at Washburn University, Topeka KS where she teaches digital imaging, foundations design and special topics courses in art and ecology, and science and art.
marguerite.perret@gmail.com
www.margueriteperret.com
Marguerite Perret is a mixed media installation artist who explores connections between art, science, medicine, cultural history, literature and the decorative arts. She creates visual art installations based on documenting and re-contextualizing ideas, images, artifacts and specimens culled from libraries, archives and museum collections to raise awareness on contemporary issues. These include land use, conservation, women’s health and other social concerns. She often works collaboratively with artists, scientists, writers, public agencies, and museum and healthcare professionals.
Perret is currently developing a community based interactive art exhibition at Grinnell College in collaboration with Bruce Scherting, and working on a large-scale collaborative installation exploring women’s health issues. In addition to these public/social issues art projects, she is documenting rare and recently extinct species that exist only or primarily as specimens in museum collections. She has worked extensively with the collections at the University of Kansas Biodiversity Center, Lawrence, Kansas, and at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, Oxford University Natural History Museum, and the Grant Museum at the University College London.
Perret is an associate professor of art and design at Washburn University, Topeka KS where she teaches digital imaging, foundations design and special topics courses in art and ecology, and science and art.